CFP: Extended Deadline: MACHINE TRANSLATION TWENTY-FIVE YEARS ON

[Constantin Orasan]

*Deadline extension for submissions 24 August 2009* 

International Conference

MACHINE TRANSLATION TWENTY-FIVE YEARS ON

21-22 November 2009

Organised by: The Natural Language Translation Specialist Group of The 
British Computer Society (BCS-NLTSG)

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Conference

The first Cranfield International Conference on Machine Translation,
jointly organised by the BCS-NLTSG and Cranfield University, was held in
1984. A second Cranfield conference was held in 1994.

Machine Translation is now some 60 years old and in view of the success
of the previous Cranfield conferences, we are marking the twenty-fifth 
anniversary of the first conference at Cranfield by holding another this
November.


The title for the Conference is:

Machine Translation: Twenty-Five Years On

Papers are invited which centre on any aspect of translation by machine
or aided by machine.

We are particularly interested in what has been achieved in Machine
Translation (MT) and Machine Assisted Translation (MAT) in the
twenty-five years from 1984, and also what is expected to happen in R &
D in MT and MAT in the next twenty-five years.

Other aspects of translation are welcome too - for it is by the 
interchanging of ideas that progress is made.

We invite papers reporting on recent advances in  all aspects of Machine
Translation, Computer-aided translation and Multilingual Natural
Language Processing in general, including (but not limited to):
terminology extraction and terminology  management; electronic
dictionaries; corpus-based language processing; word-sense
disambiguation; machine translation;  machine-aided translation;
translation memory systems; translation aids and tools; cross-lingual
information retrieval; text alignment; CALL; language resources;
evaluation.

Emphasis at the Conference will be given to the latest research in MT
and MAT, illustrated wherever possible by computer demonstrations of
working systems. Since the last conference, the influence of the Web
cannot be ignored.

It is expected that the Conference will help to give an impetus for
further research and development in MT and MAT in the coming years.

We think everyone agreed how successful and enjoyable both the '84 and
'94 Cranfield Conferences were. We are expecting the 2009 Cranfield
Conference to be even better.


Scientific Committee Includes:

Margarita Alonso Ramos (University of Coruña, Spain)
Masoud Ashraf (BCS NLT SG, UK)
Mona Baker (Manchester University, UK)
Chris Bates(BCS NLT SG, UK)
Christian Boitet (Université Joseph Fourier, France)
Lynne Bowker (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Michael Carl (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark)
Douglas Clarke (BCS NLT SG, UK)
Gloria Corpas Pastor (University of Malaga, Spain)
Atefeh Farzindar (NLP Technologies, Canada)
Pascale Fung (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Mikel L.Forcada (University of Alicante, Spain)
Gabriela Gonzalez (ETRAD, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Veronique Hoste (University College Ghent, Belgium)
Diana Inkpen (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Alma Kharrat (Microsoft, USA)
Richard Kittredge (CoGenTex, Inc., USA)
Elina Lagoudaki (Imperial College, UK)
Veronica Lawson (BCS NLT SG, UK)
Derek Lewis (BCS NLT SG, UK)
Marie-Claude L'Homme (University of Montreal, Canada)
Elliot Macklovitch (University of Montreal, Canada)
Belinda Maia (University of Porto, Portugal)
Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton)
Paola Monachesi (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
Constantin Orasan (University of Wolverhampton, UK)
Jon Riding (British & Foreign Bible Society, UK)
Lucia Specia (University of Wolverhampton, UK)
Mark Stevenson (University Of Sheffield)
Alfred Vella (Liverpool University and Open University, UK)
David Wigg (BCS NLTSG, UK)
Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield, UK)

Important Dates

Date for submission of draft papers/posters for review: 24 August 2009

Deadline for submission of proposals for practical demonstrations: 24
August 2009

Notification of acceptance for papers, posters and demonstrations no
later than 15 September 2009.

Deadline for final versions of Papers and posters 10 October 2009

Registration Deadline 10 October 2009

'Machine Translation 25 Years on' 21st and 22nd November 2009


Format of papers

The proceedings are being prepared by Alfred Vella, Derek Lewis and
Douglas Clarke (editors of the previous sets of proceedings), Please see
http://nltsg.bcs.org/mtconf2009/papers.html


Alternative Programme

An alternative programme can be arranged for persons accompanying
delegates. Among places which can be visited are: Milton Keynes, The
Open University, Cambridge, Oxford, Blenheim Palace, Bletchley Park
Museum and Stratford-upon-Avon.


Fees are expected to be:

Conference: Covering attendance at sessions, banquet, exhibition, and 
receipt of proceedings to be around 350 GBP plus VAT. The price includes
the registration fee of 50 GBP, but does not include accommodation and
other meals.

Residential accommodation is available at Cranfield at 45.50 GBP + VAT
per person per night for bed and breakfast.

Non-residential delegates may pay for individual meals separately.

Please send expressions of interest and/or abstracts of papers to: 
mtconf at bcs.org

For more information please go to http://nltsg.bcs.org/mtconf2009/
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