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6th EAMT Workshop:
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November 14 - 15, 2002
UMIST, Manchester
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The sixth EAMT (European Association for Machine Translation) Workshop will take place on November 14-15, 2002 hosted by the Centre for Computational Linguistics, UMIST, Manchester.
Organized by the European Association for Machine Translation, in association with the Natural Language Translation Specialist Group of the British Computer Society, the Workshop will focus on the topic of:
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| Teaching Machine Translation |
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The following topics are of interest:
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 computational aspects of MT to non-computational students
web-based distance learning of MT
MT education and industry: bridging the gap between academia and the real world
teaching pre- and post-editing skills to MT users
teaching MT evaluation
building modules or `toy' MT systems in the laboratory
experiences of the evaluation of MT instruction
the role of MT in language learning
translation studies and MT
etc.
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Workshop invites submissions of an extended abstract of your proposed paper, up to two pages,
summarizing the main points that will be made in the actual paper. Submissions will be reviewed by
members of the Programme Committee. Authors of accepted papers will be asked to submit a full version
of the paper, maximum 12 pages, which will be included in the proceedings. A stylefile for accepted
submissions will be available in due course.
Initially, an extended abstract should be sent, preferably by email as an attachment in any of the
standard formats (doc, html, pdf, ps) or as plain text, to
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Programme Committee
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Harold Somers, UMIST, Manchester
Derek Lewis, University of Exeter
Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton
Mikel Forcada, Universitat d'Alacant
Karl-Heinz Freigang, Universität des Saarlandes
David Wigg, South Bank University, London
John Hutchins, EAMT
Roger Harris, BCS
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Important dates
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| Deadline for extended abstract |
August 8, 2002 |
| Acceptance notification |
September 6, 2002 |
| Final copies due |
October 14, 2002 |
| Conference dates |
November 14-15, 2002 |
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Centre for Computational Linguistics, UMIST
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