===================================================================== MACHINE TRANSLATION SUMMIT VII September 13-17, 1999, Singapore CALL FOR PAPERS ----------------------------------------------------------------- The seventh Machine Translation Summit, organized by the Asia-Pacific Association for Machine Translation (AAMT), will be held at Kent Ridge Digital Labs on the campus of National University of Singapore from 13 to 17 September 1999. MT Summit VII, which is the last conference of the 20th century in the premier series of conferences on machine translation, will provide a forum for discussing the prospect of MT and related areas in the coming century. MT Summit VII will feature an expanded program including research papers, reports on users' experiences, discussions of policy issues, invited talks, panels, exhibitions, tutorials, and workshops. AAMT invites all who are interested in any aspect of machine translation - researchers, developers, providers, users, and watchers - to participate in the conference. Conference Schedule: 13 September 1999 Tutorials 14-16 September 1999 Papers, panels and exhibitions 17 September 1999 Workshops Papers MT Summit VII seeks original papers in all aspects of machine translation. Topics of interests include, but are not limited to: - Methodologies for MT (rule-based, knowledge-based, analogy-based, statistics-based, etc.) - Practical MT systems (MT for professional translation, MT for the Internet, MT for localization, etc.) - Translation aids (translation memory, terminology databases, etc.) - Speech and dialogue translation - Natural language analysis and generation techniques - Dictionaries and lexicons for MT systems - Text corpora for MT and knowledge extraction from corpora - Human factors in MT and user interfaces - Evaluation techniques - Standards in text and lexicon encoding for MT - Cross-lingual information retrieval - MT and related technologies (information retrieval, text categorization, text summarization, information extraction, etc.) There will be three categories of papers: (1) Research papers: Submissions are invited for reports of significant research results in any aspect of machine translation and related areas. Such reports should include a substantial evaluative component. Papers should be in English, not longer than 5,000 words. (2) System presentations with demos: Submissions are invited for reports on the design, implementation, operation and evaluation of operational and prototype systems. Reports should be in English, not longer than 2,000 words. (3) User studies: Submissions are invited for reports on users' experiences with applying MT to some task, evaluation of MT systems, analysis of MT markets, etc. Reports should be in English, not longer than 5,000 words. All types of papers should be submitted to the address below and must be received by the indicated date. Papers should include a cover page with the following information: - paper title, - author(s)' name(s), affiliation(s), address(es), and e-mail address(es), - 200 word abstract, - for research papers: up to 5 keywords, - for system presentations with demos: the word "System presentation with demo", and the hardware, software and network requirement for the demonstration, - for user studies: the word "User study". Please mail 4 hardcopies of the paper to: MT Summit VII Asia-Pacific Association for Machine Translation (AAMT) 3F, Shiba-Koen Sanada Bldg. 3-5-12 Shiba-Koen, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0011, Japan In addition, please submit an ASCII version of the cover page electronically to: aamt0001@infotokyo.or.jp Important Dates: 15 April 1999 Paper submission deadline 30 May 1999 Notifications 15 July 1999 Final camera-ready copy deadline ----------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Exhibits In addition to the scheduled system presentations with demos, vendor booths will showcase commercial products ongoing basis throughout the conference. Exhibits will not be restricted to machine translation systems but include a variety of NLP applications. If you would like to exhibit, please contact the Local Organizing Secretary (e-mail: vicky@krdl.org.sg) by April 15, 1999. Call for Panel / Special Session / Invited Speaker Proposals Submissions are invited for panel sessions dealing with significant, controversial and timely issues in machine translation. Proposals should include the description of the topic, and preferably the names and affiliations of panelists who could represent diverse positions or approach to the topic. Proposals for special sessions and invited speakers are also welcome. These proposals should be sent to the Program Chair (e-mail: MT-SUMMIT-99-Sessions@mlist.ccm.cl.nec.co.jp) by November 30, 1998. Call for Tutorial Proposals Proposals are solicited for tutorials on both technological and practical issues in machine translation. Submissions should be made to the Local Organizing Chair (e-mail: hweeboon@krdl.org.sg) by November 30, 1998. They should include (1) the length of the tutorial (either a half day or full day); (2) an outline of the tutorial; (3) the intended audience (introductory, intermediate, advanced); (4) complete contact information for the contact person; and (5) brief biographies of the presenters. Call for Workshop Proposals Proposals are solicited for one-day workshops which bring together a relatively small group of people involved in a specific problem area of machine translation, to advance the state of the art in that area. Submissions should be made to the Program Vice Chair (e-mail: tonglc@krdl.org.sg) by November 30, 1998. They should include the theme and goal of the workshop, the planned activities, and a list of potential participants. ----------------------------------------------------------------- About Singapore Singapore is a vibrant, sophisticated city state of 3 million people offering the best of modern facilities and comforts while retaining her heritage and culture. A progressive, cosmopolitan city, Singapore has the world's best airport - Changi International Airport - and lies at the crossroads of Asia. Known for her food and shopping, Singapore is a thriving nucleus for tourism, trade and finance. The climate in Singapore is tropical all year round with high humidity and temperatures varying between 23 degrees Celsius (74 F) in the evening to 32 degrees Celsius (90 F) during the day. Showers are sporadic and heavy but also brief and refreshing. Light summer clothing may be worn throughout the day. About the Venue Kent Ridge Digital Labs (KRDL) is a national applied research & development organization established in January 1998 through the merger of former national IT institutes - the Information Technology Institute (ITI) and the Institute of Systems Science (ISS). With a diverse team of more than 400 research scientists, KRDL's aim is to be the premier research and development organization in Asia-Pacific for information and networking technologies. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Conference Organization General Chair: Hozumi Tanaka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Local Organizing Committee Chair: Hwee Boon Low, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore Secretary: Victorine Chen-Toh, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore Program Committee Chair: Jun-ichi Tsujii, University of Tokyo, Japan and UMIST, UK Vice Chair: Loong Cheong Tong, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore Members: Virginia Cha, Star+Globe Technologies, Singapore Jason S. Chang, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan ZhaoXiong Chen, Kezhi Co., China Key-Sun Choi, Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea Robert Dale, Macquarie University, Australia Zhendong Dong, Chinese Information Processing Society, China Dominique Estival, University of Melbourne, Australia Changning Huang, Tsinghua University, China Hitoshi Iida, ATR Interpreting Telecommunications Research Laboratories, Japan Etsuo Ito, Toshiba Corporation, Japan Hiroyuki Kaji, Hitachi, Ltd., Japan Shin-ichiro Kamei, NEC Corporation, Japan Asanee Kawtrakul, Kasetsart University, Thailand Kunio Matsui, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Japan Se Young Park, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Korea Wanchai Rivepiboon, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand Trihono Sastrohartono, Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology, Indonesia Youlwon Seong, Language and Computer, Ltd., Korea Keh-Yih Su, Behavior Design Corporation, Taiwan Chew Lim Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore Benjamin K. Tsou, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Yusoff Zaharin, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia International Advisors: Laurie Gerber, SYSTRAN Software, Inc., USA Eduard Hovy, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA John Hutchins, University of East Anglia, UK Antonio Sanfillipo, LINGLINK, Luxembourg ----------------------------------------------------------------- Further Information For more details, please call Vicky at (65) 874 2003 or fax (65) 776 8109. You may also visit the Web-site: http://www.krdl.org.sg =====================================================================