[Corpora-List] CFP: Translating and the Computer 27

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Date: Thu Apr 07 2005 - 11:39:15 MET DST

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    Translating and the Computer 27 - Conference
    (24-25 November 2005, London)
    Supported by: British Computer Society Natural Language Translation
    Specialist Group, European Association for Machine Translation,
    International Association for Machine Translation, the Institute of
    Translation and Interpreting and the Institute of Linguists.

    This conference focuses on the user aspects of translation software. The
    conference series attracts a wide audience which includes translators,
    business managers, researchers and language experts.
    Once again, this year the conference will address the latest developments
    in translation (and translation-related) software. It will address the
    needs of the following conference attendees:
    - industry
    - public administration
    - agencies
    - freelancers
    - development
    This call for papers invites abstracts of papers to be presented at the
    conference. The papers (and the presentations) should focus on the user
    aspects of translation or translation-related software rather than on
    theoretical issues. Presentations accompanied by demonstrations are
    especially welcome.

    TOPICS
    The range of topics includes (but is not limited to):
    - use of MT systems
    - machine-aided translation and translation aids
    - controlled languages and their use in MT
    - speech translation
    - terminology
    - localisation
    - multilingual document management/workflow
    - case studies of technology-based solutions
    - the Internet and translation aids/services
    - XML based standards
    - Application of XML tools
    - Project Management
    - Non-business, non-profit organisations approach to translation problems
    i.e. how do they
    - the value of "free" versus "charging" services/sites on the Internet

    SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
    Authors are required to submit an abstract of a MINIMUM of 500 words of the

    paper they would like to present, together with an outline of the structure

    of the paper and short BIOGRAPHY.
    Abstracts should be sent by POST or EMAIL by 1st July 2005 to: Nicole
    Adamides, Conference Organiser, Aslib, The Holywell Centre, 1 Phipp Street,

    London EC2A 4PS. Tel: +44(0) 20 7613 3031/ Fax: +44 (0) 20 7613 5080/
    Email: tc27@aslib.com

    The abstracts will be considered by the Programme Chairs, namely: Chris
    Pyne and Daniel Grasmick, SAP; Professor Ruslan Mitkov, University of
    Wolverhampton and Olaf-Michael Stefanov, United Nations Office at Vienna.
    The authors of abstracts will be notified of acceptance or rejection of
    their submissions by 1 August 2005. The full length versions of the
    accepted papers (authors will be provided with detailed camera-ready copy
    guidelines) will be included in the conference proceedings and must be
    submitted by 10th October 2005. Speakers' presentations must be submitted
    by 10th November 2005.

    In brief, the deadlines are:
    - 1 July 2005 - deadline for abstracts
    - 1 August 2005 - all authors will be notified of decisions
    - 10 October 2005- full length versions of the accepted papers to Aslib
    - 10 November 2005 - speakers' presentations to be submitted

    Regards
    Nicole Adamides, ASLIB Training
    www.aslib.com/confereces



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