2006 Conference of the
Association for Machine Translation in the
(AMTA 2006)
http://amta2006.amtaweb.org/index.htm
CALL FOR TUTORIALS AND WORKSHOPS
Deadline:
April 24, 2006
We
welcome your proposals and ideas for the Tutorial Program at AMTA 2006!
Tutorials will be held on Tuesday, August 8, 2006, the day before the main
conference begins.
Tutorials
at AMTA conferences are forums in which the unique perspectives of stakeholder
groups can be shared with members of the MT community at large. Translators,
translation managers, technologists, information analysts, system developers,
research scientists and MT watchers in general come together around the common
goal of encouraging the enhancement of meaning transfer across languages.
Participants
learn how issues are being addressed. Issues might include new media, unique
data challenges, technological advances, input degradation from character or
speech recognition, the incorporation of novel computational processes, the
variety of currently available approaches to evaluation and more. Topics are
presented in an accessible and understandable manner, one which provides for
interactive Q&A. In other words, tutorials provide
valuable information that helps attendees get more out of the conference!
We
ask that tutorials be of interest to a broad audience.
Send
a title and brief description of the proposed tutorial's topic and content,
including a short outline of the presentation or interactive activity, showing
that the content can be covered in three hours. Be sure to include technical
requirements and the professional expertise of the organizers of the tutorial.
The
deadline for proposing tutorials is April 24th.
Contact: Michelle Vanni <
Tutorials
Solicited:
* Presentations on practical concerns of managers, technologists
and IP professionals
* Technical tutorials on high-interest, leading-edge R&D topics
* Introductory, overview and "lessons learned" tutorials
If
you have an idea but are new to the process of proposing tutorials, please
contact us. We can perhaps assist you in developing your idea.
Deadline:
April 24, 2006
Proposals
for Workshops at AMTA 2006 are now being solicited.
Workshops
will be held on Saturday, August 12, 2006 the day after the main conference
ends.
Special
interest groups looking for an opportunity to present recent work related to MT
may want to organize a workshop at AMTA 2006.
Developers,
evaluators, researchers and IP specialists are engaged in the process of
understanding better the effects of specific approaches to the refinement of sense rendering. Workshops are often
successfully organized around these approaches. The incorporation of
named-entity extraction, ontology-based semantic representation and
domain-specific dictionaries are but a few of the many possible examples. Such
workshops provide an opportunity for increasing awareness of new work in a
given approach or technique of interest.
Submissions
should be made to Michelle Vanni
If
you have an idea but are new to the process of proposing a workshop, please
contact us. We can perhaps assist you with developing your idea.
Contact:
Michelle Vanni <