MACHINE TRANSLATION
Announcement and Call for Papers
The journal "Machine Translation" has a new editor and editorial board.
Editor: Harold Somers, Centre for Computational Linguistics, UMIST,
Manchester
Book Review Editor: Doug Arnold, Department of Language & Linguistics,
University of Essex, Colchester
While respecting its historical link with the field of MT, "Machine
Translation" is changing and broadening its scope of interest to
encompass all branches of Computational Linguistics and Language
Engineering, wherever they incorporate a MULTILINGUAL aspect. We
therefore welcome submissions to the journal on THEORETICAL,
DESCRIPTIVE OR COMPUTATIONAL ASPECTS of any of the following topics:
* machine translation and machine-aided translation
* human translation theory and practise
* multilingual text composition and generation
* multilingual information retrieval and natural language interfaces
* multilingual dialogue systems and message understanding systems
* corpus-based and statistical language modelling
* connectionist approaches to translation
* compilation and use of bi- and multilingual corpora
* discourse phenomena and (human or machine) translation
* contrastive linguistics
* software localization and internationalization
* speech processing, especially for speech translation
* computational implications of non-Roman character sets
* language engineering for minority languages
* history of machine translation
We would also welcome your suggestions about other features you would
like to see in this journal, for example, special issues, squibs,
topical comment.
See our web pages at http://www.ccl.umist.ac.uk/harold/MTjnl
Submission of manuscripts: For information about submission, contact the
Editorial office, Machine Translation, Kluwer Academic Publishers, PO
Box 17, NL-3300 AA Dordrecht, The Netherlands; tel. (+31) 78 639 2911;
fax 2254; e-mail editdept@wkap.nl; From North America contact
Machine Translation Editorial office, PO Box 230, Accord, MA
02018-0230.
Any other comments or queries to Harold Somers (MT journal), Centre for
Computational Linguistics, UMIST, PO Box 88, Manchester M60 1QD; fax
+44 161 200 3099; e-mail harold@ccl.umist.ac.uk