Theme and goal
The goal of the AMTA SIG-IL Workshop Series on Interlinguas and Interlingual Approaches to MT is to stimulate interest in research and design issues related to interlingual representations and the development of interlingual translation systems. (For summaries of prior meetings, see the AMTA SIG-IL web home page here ). This 8th Workshop in the series brings together specialists in MT and NLP to work out practical representation systems for a range of pragmatic and semantic phenomena related to the translations of spoken dialogue and development of speech-to-speech translation systems.
Papers are invited on the interlingual representation and/or processing of:
· dialogue structure, discourse structure and rhetorical structure,
· conversation analysis or conversational structure (turn-taking),
· speech acts (including pauses),
· conversational implicature,
· reference resolution or generation and/or the recovery or generation of
ellipted information,
· extra-linguistic context and deictic references,
· interlocutor (speaker-addressee) or interpersonal relationships (e.g.,
politeness),
· disfluencies and/or erroneous speech recognition output,
· other discourse or dialogue related phenomena,
for translation and, in particular, for spoken language translation.
Preference will be given to contributions that focus on these phenomena in particular in Chinese, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Malaysian, Thai, or other Asian languages although any language pair may serve as a context. We encourage discussions that provide abundant multilingual evidence or address the use of multilingual parallel corpora. Preference will also be given to contributions that relate to actual research and development projects using interlingual approaches to MT or multilingual NLP.
Planned activities
The workshop will consist of approximately eight 25-minute presentations, each followed by a 30-minute discussion period. The discussion will begin with a brief critique by a pre-selected discussant and rebuttal by the author and then conclude with a 15-minutes open discussion.
In addition, a workshop banquet will be planned for the participants and their guests for the evening of September 16.
Calendar of deadlines for submission, notification and camera-ready copy
2 May 2005 Paper submission deadline
9 May 2005 NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE
23 May 2005 Paper acceptance notification
13 June 2005 Critique deadline
27 June 2005 Author response deadline
18 July 2005 Camera-ready copy deadline
16 Sept 2005 Workshop
The proceedings be available to the participants at the time of the workshop in both printed and CD ROM form. They will include the accepted contributions, the critiques and the author's response to the critiques. The CD ROM version will be included along with the contributions to the main conference. The printed version will be published by the Computing Research Laboratory at New Mexico State University (USA).
Program Committee
The Program Committee members currently include:
Jan Alexanderson (DFKI)
Victoria Arranz (ELDA)
Robert Belvin (HRL)
Hervé Blanchon (Grenoble)
Bonnie Dorr (UMIACS)
David Farwell (CRL-NMSU) (co-organizer)
Nizar Habash (Columbia)
Stephen Helmreich (CRL-NMSU) (co-organizer)
Eduard Hovy (ISI-USC) (co-organizer)
Lori Levin (LTI-CMU) (co-organizer)
Daniel Marcu (ISI-USC)
Keith Miller (MITRE)
Teruko Mitamura (LTI-CMU)
Sergei Nirenburg (UMD-BC)
Akitoshi Okumura (NEC)
Martha Palmer (U Penn/Colorado)
Fabio Pianesi (IRST)
Florence Reeder (MITRE)
Jörg Schutz (Saarbrucken)
Harald Somers (U Manchester)
David Traum (ICT-USC)
Yorick Wilks (Sheffield)
DeKai Wu (HCUST)
ChengQing Zong (CAS-NLPR)
Contact:
Steve Helmreich
Computing Research Laboratory
New Mexico State University
Box 30001/3CRL
Las Cruces, New Mexico
USA
Tel: 505 646 2141
Fax: 505 646 6218
e-mail: shelmrei@crl.nmsu.edu
Comments/questions may be mailed to Steve Helmreich at: shelmrei@crl.nmsu.edu
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