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The Association for Machine Translation in the Americas
AMTA-2002 Conference
Tiburon, California
(near San Francisco)
October 8-12, 2002
Conference theme: FROM RESEARCH TO REAL USERS
Ever since the showdown between Empiricists and Rationalists a decade
ago at TMI-92, MT researchers have hotly pursued promising paradigms
for MT, including data-driven approaches and hybrids that integrate
these with more traditional rule-based components. During the same
period, commercial MT systems with standard transfer architectures
have evolved along a parallel and almost unrelated track, increasing
their coverage and achieving much broader acceptance and usage. This
raises a number of interesting questions (see the main conference Call
For Participation), primarily concerned with why this disconnect
exists, and whether it is going to change.
TUTORIAL AND WORKSHOP PROPOSAL SUBMISSIONS
Proposals for tutorials and workshops are now being solicited on these
and other topics of direct interest and impact for MT researchers,
developers, vendors or users of MT technologies. We welcome and
encourage participation by members of AMTA's sister organizations,
AAMT in Asia and EAMT in Europe, as well.
Workshops will be held on Tuesday October 8th. Approximately 7 hours
may be allocated per workshop.
Tutorials will be held on Wednesday October 9th. Tutorials would
typically last 3 hours, although other arrangements might be possible.
Proposals should state the topic(s) to be addressed, the rationale for
addressing it and the structure of the activities. Proposals should
be in English and not longer than 4 pages.
Please submit proposals as soon as possible to Bob Frederking at
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Proposals must be submitted on or before Friday,
April 12, 2002.
For general conference information and further details
as they become available, visit:
http://www.amtaweb.org/AMTA2002/
CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS
Elliott Macklovitch, General Chair
Stephen D. Richardson, Program Chair
Violetta Cavalli-Sforza, Local Arrangements Chair
Bob Frederking, Workshops and Tutorials
Laurie Gerber, Exhibits Coordinator
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Robert E. Frederking Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Language Technologies Institute Telephone: +1-412-268-6656
Carnegie Mellon University FAX: +1-412-268-6298
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ref/
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