The Fourth and Fifth IL Workshops have featured active participation by workshop members in the substance of the workshop: they have been workshops in the literal sense of the word. The Fifth IL workshop, in particular, asked participants to code thematic roles prior to the workshop and then to make a short presentation about their activity.
This workshop will continue in that tradition. Instead of focussing on thematic roles, workshop participants will be asked to identify and mark up events, states, and objects in three texts: one English text, a translation of that text into another language, and a re-translation back into English of the second text. Active participants will also provide a short paper, discussing the markup task. In the afternoon, the combined results of the coding experiment will be discussed.
This task is seen as a prelude to a possible large-scale markup of multi-lingual text for thematic roles.
Of course, all are welcome to attend this workshop, though participation in the markup tasks is encouraged.
The workshop will be the 7th in a series sponsored in part by the Special Interest Group on Interlinguas of AMTA.
The workshop will be held on Tuesday, September 23, 2003, in conjunction with the MT Summit IX in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. A banquet for the participants and guests will be organized separately from the the workshop for the evening of the 23nd. Registration is through MT Summit IX.
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