[MT-List] CFP: Teaching Translation Technologies and Tools workshop at MT Summit IX

[Mikel L. Forcada]

	  Teaching Translation Technologies and Tools (T4)
                    <http://www.dlsi.ua.es/t4/>

      A workshop at MT Summit IX <http://www.amtaweb.org/summit>

			   CALL FOR PAPERS


INTRODUCTION

In September 2003, the workshop Teaching Translation Techniques and
Tools will be held as part of the IX Machine Translation Summit
<http://www.amtaweb.org/summit/> in New Orleans, Louisiana.

This is the third workshop addressing the teaching of machine
translation; its predecessors were the Teaching Machine Translation
workshop at the MT Summit VIII in Santiago de Compostela in September
2001 (http://www.dlsi.ua.es/tmt/) and, more recently, the 6th EAMT
Workshop "Teaching Machine Translation" held in Manchester in November
2002 (http://www.ccl.umist.ac.uk/events/eamt-bcs/). This third
workshop has an expanded scope which will not only address machine
translation but also computer-aided translation technologies and
tools.

The workshop will provide an opportunity for machine translation
instructors attending MT Summit VIII to exchange their experience by
presenting papers or demonstrations describing the tools and
techniques they use in the classroom or in the laboratory.


SCHEDULE AND VENUE

This one-day workshop will take place on September 27, after the
regular conference sessions end. Please visit the Workshop website at
http://www.dlsi.ua.es/t4/ for updates.


PAPERS

The Teaching Translation Technologies and Tools workshop seeks
original papers in all aspects of the instruction of machine
translation. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

    * why and to whom should MT be taught?

    * teaching the theoretical background of MT: linguistics, computer
      science, translation theory

    * addressing preconceptions about MT in the classroom

    * the use of commercial MT programs in hands-on teaching

    * teaching machine translation strategies to non-computational
      students

    * web-based distance learning of MT

    * teaching pre- and post-MT skills to MT users

    * teaching MT evaluation

    * building modules or `toy' MT systems in the laboratory

    * experiences on the evaluation of MT instruction

    * the role of MT in language learning

    * translation studies and MT

    * teaching MT-related techniques: translation memory, alignment
      tools, terminological databases, use of corpora, etc.

The working language of the workshop will be English.

Papers should describe research or experiences in any of the topics
mentioned, should not be longer than 3000 words, and should nicely fit
in 8 pages. In view of the main topics of the workhop, presentations
may have a substantial demonstrative component.

Electronic submissions (PDF files) are strongly preferred. As the
reviewing process will be blind, authors are requested to keep their
papers anonymous. This means that these submissions should NOT include
the author's name; rather, papers should be identified only by their
title. In addition to the electronic file containing their paper
(including an abstract), authors must also submit a separate cover
page with the following information:

    * paper title,
    * author(s)' name(s), affiliation(s), address(es), and e-mail
      address(es),
    * for demonstrative presentations: the hardware, software and
      network requirements for the demonstration.

The two electronic files should be attached to an email and sent to
mlf@dlsi.ua.es <mailto:mlf@dlsi.ua.es>.

We will acknowledge receipt of all papers received before the deadline
and issue a submission number to each author. Please refer to that
number in all subsequent correspondence. Anyone who is unable to make
an electronic submission is asked to contact Mikel L. Forcada at
mlf@dlsi.ua.es <mailto:mlf@dlsi.ua.es>. Guidelines and style files for
the preparation of the final camera-ready copy will be made available
to the authors of accepted submissions in due time at the MT Summit IX
<http://www.amtaweb.org/summit/> site.

If you cannot submit electronically, please mail 4 hardcopies of the
paper to:

Mikel L. Forcada,
Teaching Translation Technologies and Tools at MT Summit IX,
Dept. Llenguatges i Sistemes Inform=E0tics,
Universitat d'Alacant,
E-03071 Alacant, Spain

IMPORTANT DATES

Please make a note of these important dates:

    * Paper submission deadline: June 1, 2003

    * Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2003

    * Final camera-ready copy deadline: July 31, 2003



ORGANIZERS

    * Mikel L. Forcada <http://www.dlsi.ua.es/~mlf>, (mlf@dlsi.ua.es
      <mailto:mlf@dlsi.ua.es>), Departament de Llenguatges i Sistemes
      Inform=E0tics, Universitat d'Alacant, E-03071 Alacant, Spain.

    * Harold Somers <http://www.ccl.umist.ac.uk/staff/harold/>,
      (Harold.Somers@umist.ac.uk <mailto:Harold.Somers@umist.ac.uk>),
      Centre for Computational Linguistics, Department of Language and
      Linguistics UMIST PO Box 88, Manchester M60 1QD, United Kingdom.

    * Andy Way <http://www.compapp.dcu.ie/~away/> (away@compapp.dcu.ie
      <mailto:away@compapp.dcu.ie>), School of Computer Applications,
      Dublin City University, Glasnevin, Dublin 9, Ireland.


FURTHER INFORMATION

For more details, please visit the workshop website:
http://www.dlsi.ua.es/t4/ . You may also send a request for
information to mlf@dlsi.ua.es <mailto:mlf@dlsi.ua.es>.


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Mikel L. Forcada                    E-mail: mlf@dlsi.ua.es
Departament de Llenguatges          Phone: +34-96-590-9776=20
i Sistemes Inform=E0tics                also +34-96-590-3772.
UNIVERSITAT D'ALACANT               Fax:   +34-96-590-9326, -3464
E-03071 ALACANT, Spain.

URL: http://www.dlsi.ua.es/~mlf