machine translation conference with Semitic-Language workshop

Machine translation is of interest in order to get information available in
less-common languages including sign languages.

http://trace.wisc.edu/world/modtrans/

In addition, some access aids such as Text-to-Speech are made more difficult by
the habit of writing Semitic languages without vowels.

http://www.ubaccess.com/hebrew-access.html

These two interests may both be advanced in the meeting announced below.

-----Original Message-----
From: Priscilla Rasmussen [mailto:rasmusse@research.rutgers.edu]
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 6:40 PM

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT: IXth MT SUMMIT, NEW ORLEANS

Join us in New Orleans, the Birthplace of Jazz
for the 9th Machine Translation Summit
September 23 - September 28

http://www.mt-summit.org

The biannual IAMT Summit offers something for everyone
interested in translation technology, including:

Exciting technical program: Almost 60 papers
on a variety of topics, from MT evaluation to user studies
to studies of translation algorithms and data.

Tutorials:
1. Computer assisted business process management for the language industry
2. Finite-state Language Processing and its applications to MT
3. Thanks for the Memories: Translation Memory
4. Information Architecture for Controlled Authoring and Translation
5. Introduction to Statistical Machine Translation
6. MT Customization

Workshops:
1. Interlinguas (Tuesday)
2. MT for Semitic Languages (Tuesday)
3. Teaching MT and tools (Saturday)
4. Towards systematizing MT Evaluation (Saturday)

Invited Speakers:
Pierre Isabelle, Xerox Research, Grenoble
Akitoshi Okumura, NEC, Tokyo
Donald Barab=E9, Canadian Translation Bureau, Ottawa

Exhibition of 17 products and services!

Plus: Panel discussions, live system demonstrations,
free reception, sumptuous banquet in an unusual setting -
all within walking distance of the French Quarter!

Hotel: Special room rates of $149/night in the historical
and elegant Fairmont New Orleans http://www.fairmont.com.

Received on Wednesday, 27 August 2003 14:26:48 UTC