The Association for Machine Translation in the AmericasAMTA-2002 ConferenceFrom Research to Real UsersLocation: Tiburon, CaliforniaDates: October 8-12, 2002The Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA) is pleased to announce its fifth biennial conference, planned for October 8-12, 2002, in Tiburon (near San Francisco), California. Conference theme: From Research to Real UsersEver since the showdown between Empiricists and Rationalists a decade ago at TMI-92, MT researchers have hotly pursued promising paradigms for MT, including data-driven approaches (e.g., statistical, example-based) and hybrids that integrate these with more traditional rule-based components. During the same period, commercial MT systems with standard transfer architectures have evolved along a parallel and almost unrelated track, increasing their coverage (primarily through manual update of their lexicons, we assume) and achieving much broader acceptance and usage, principally through the medium of the Internet. Web page translators have become commonplace; a number of online translation services have appeared, including in their offerings both raw and post-edited MT; and large corporations have been turning increasingly to MT to address the exigencies of global communication. Still, the output of the transfer-based systems employed in this expansion represents but a small drop in the ever-growing translation marketplace bucket. Now, 10 years later, we wonder if this mounting variety of MT users is any better off, and if the promise of the research technologies is being realized to any measurable degree. In this regard, we pose the following questions:
We solicit participation on these and other topics related to the research, development, and use of MT in the form of original papers, demonstrations, workshops, tutorials, and panels. We invite all who are interested in MT to participate, including developers, researchers, end users, professional translators, managers, and marketing experts. We especially invite users to share their experiences, developers to describe their novel systems, managers and marketers to talk about what is happening in the marketplace, researchers to detail new capabilities or methods, and visionaries to describe the future as they see it. We also welcome and encourage participation by members of AMTA's sister organizations, AAMT in Asia and EAMT in Europe. Invited SpeakersWe are pleased to announce that invited speakers for the conference will include Yorick Wilks and Ken Church, both notable participants at TMI-92, and Jaap van der Meer, former president of ALPNET. We anticipate that the speakers will provide a sharp and stimulating focus on the theme of the conference. Further details regarding the conference may be found on the AMTA Web site: http://www.amtaweb.org/AMTA2002/ Program Committee
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PAPER AND SYSTEM DESCRIPTION/DEMONSTRATION SUBMISSION GUIDELINESWe are pleased to announce that the AMTA-2002 conference proceedings will be published in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series by Springer-Verlag. (LNCS/LNAI series home page is located at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html) It is therefore recommended that initial submissions to AMTA-2002 adhere as closely as possible to the formatting guidelines for authors. These guidelines will need to be strictly adhered to for the final versions of submissions that are accepted for publication in the proceedings. All submissions should be in English, and it is recommended that they be prepared using Latex2e or Microsoft Word, per instructions at the authors' web site given above (see site for details on using other text processing systems). Once prepared, they should be submitted electronically for review in one of the following three formats:
All submissions will be received and processed using the conference Management Toolkit (CMT). Authors should follow the instructions at the CMT web site to register, enter information about themselves and their paper, and upload a copy of their paper in one of the acceptable formats by the submission deadline. Any questions regarding submissions or the use of this web site should be directed in email to: AMTA2002@microsoft.com. Important SUBMISSION DEADLINES are as follows:Submissions uploaded at CMT web site: April 15, 2002 (Monday)Notification of acceptance: May 31, 2002 (Friday) Final versions of papers due: July 15, 2002 (Monday) At the CMT web site, authors will be asked to designate their submissions for one of the three conference tracks listed below. Again, initial submissions are expected to adhere as closely as possible to the guidelines found at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Information regarding submission length and additional requirements is also provided below. Conference tracks1. Theoretical papers: Unpublished papers describing original work on all aspects of Machine Translation. Preference will be given to papers that include concrete results and that address the theme of moving MT research technology (including, but not limited to, data-driven systems or components) into real use. Papers may not be longer than 10 pages. 2. User studies: Studies of users’ experiences with implementing MT or testing its applicability to some task. Of particular interest are experiences deploying new or advanced MT technology in a production context. Users, managers, and sales/marketing professionals are especially welcome to submit. Studies may not be longer than 8 pages. 3. System descriptions with optional system demonstrations: Approx. 25 minutes will be allocated per system description/demo. Descriptions may not be longer than 4 pages. The goal of system descriptions is to educate participants about the features and functionality of current and emerging MT systems. Sales presentations are not appropriate. The following additional information should be provided in each system description;
If a system demonstration is included, please provide the following information:
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