Subject: MULSAIC'97: 2nd Call for Papers
From: Costas Spyropoulos <costass@iit.nrcps.ariadne-t.gr>
To: mulsaic97@iit.nrcps.ariadne-t.gr, mulsaic.inter@iit.nrcps.ariadne-t.gr
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 13:20:26 +0200 (EET)

                          2nd Call for Papers

                          The 2nd Workshop on 
                "Multilinguality in Software Industry: 
                  the AI Contribution (MULSAIC'97)"

     (http://www.iit.nrcps.ariadne-t.gr/~costass/mulsaic97.html)

  International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-97) 
                  Nagoya, Japan, August 23-29, 1997


Workshop Objectives
-------------------
This workshop aims to bring together people from the software 
industry and the AI research community. It will provide an 
opportunity for people from the software industry to present 
particular problems and questions associated with multilinguality as 
well as an opportunity for AI researchers to show that AI-based 
methods and tools can help improve the current situation.


Workshop Background
-------------------
The ability to develop multilingual products is a prerequisite for 
software companies wishing to be active internationally. However, 
multilinguality in software industry imposes problems on processes 
such as: 
- exchanging data in different languages, 
- supporting different languages in the user interface, 
- processing multilingual documents, 
- retrieving multilingual information, 
- ensuring consistency in terminology and in writing and translation style, 
- reducing the translation and in general the localisation cost. 
AI provides methods, techniques and tools that can improve these 
processes. 

MULSAIC'97, based on the results of the MULSAIC'96 Workshop 
held in ECAI-96, intends to promote the discussion between people 
from software industry and AI in issues such as the following: 
* Multiscript communication through networks
* Localisation of user interfaces
* Cross-language, language-independent text retrieval
* Language identification techniques
* Multilingual text generation
* Multilingual information extraction
* Machine Translation (MT) and Machine-Assisted Human Translation (MAHT)
* Creation and use of multilingual resources (dictionaries, 
  terminologies, corpora)

We would like to receive papers of two kinds. Papers presenting the 
current situation and the experiences of software industry people 
concerning multilinguality, as well as papers presenting AI-based 
methods and techniques in the above issues. We would also 
encourage the demonstration of AI-based tools as well as the 
demonstration of off-the-shelf tools used by software companies.


Organising Committee
--------------------
Dr. Costas Spyropoulos, NCSR "Demokritos", Athens, Greece 
(costass@iit.nrcps.ariadne-t.gr)

Dr. Geni-chiro Kikui, NTT Information and Communication 
Systems Laboratories, Japan (kikui@nttnly.ntt.jp)

Dr. Osamu Furuse, ATR Interpreting Telecommunications 
Research Laboratories (furuse@itl.atr.co.jp)

Dr. Key-Sun Choi, Department of Computer Science, Center for 
Artificial Intelligence Research, Taejon, Korea (kschoi@cs.kaist.ac.kr)

Dr. Douglas Oard, University of Maryland, USA (oard@glue.umd.edu)

Mr. Andreas Sch|tz, Software AG, Germany (AS@software- ag.de)

Dr. Tan Tin Wee, National University of Singapore, 
Singapore (tinwee@irdu.nus.sg)

Dr. Vangelis Karkaletsis, NCSR "Demokritos", Athens, Greece 
(vangelis@iit.nrcps.ariadne-t.gr)


Workshop Format and Attendance Requirements
-------------------------------------------
The format of this one-day workshop will encourage interaction and 
discussion between people from software industry and AI 
researchers. Invited speakers from the software industry will present 
particular problems and questions concerning multilinguality. There 
will be two types of submission for interested participants: papers 
and statements of interest. The workshop will be kept small, with no 
more than 40 participants. We intend the workshop sessions to 
contain discussion periods long enough to allow real exchange of 
ideas. At the workshop end there will also be a discussion on the 
major issues addressed, directed by a panel.
 
We hope to foster the workshop atmosphere by having the written 
versions of the accepted presentations circulated a few weeks in 
advance of the event, thus enabling the presenters to relate their 
work as much as possible to that of the others and also allowing 
non-presenting participants to be prepared for the discussion.

Please note that workshop participation is not possible without 
registration for the IJCAI'97 conference.


Submission Format
-----------------
Interested authors are requested to submit a two page abstract 
before 14 February 1997. The abstract should start with the title, 
authors, full address, telephone, fax and e-mail. The authors are 
requested to state clearly the problem examined and the AI method 
used as well as to discuss the costs and benefits of their approach. 
Performance evaluation results are also encouraged. Authors of 
accepted abstracts will be asked to provide a camera-ready version 
of their paper before 18 April 1997. Other potential participants are 
requested to register, sending a one page summary of their interests 
and experience on relevant matters, before 18 July 1997.

Submission (preferably ASCII, via e-mail) should be sent to:
  Dr. Costas Spyropoulos,
  Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications,
  National Centre for Scientific Research (NCSR) "Demokritos",
  15310 Aghia Paraskevi, Athens, Greece
  Tel: +301-6510310, +301-6513110 ext.520, Fax: +301-6532175
  E-mail: costass@iit.nrcps.ariadne-t.gr


Important Dates
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13 December 1996 	Call for Participation issued
14 February 1997       	Deadline for two-page abstracts
7 March 1997           	Notification of acceptance or rejection
18 April 1997          	Deadline for final camera ready versions of papers
18 July 1997           	Deadline for registration
21 July 1997	        Send workshop material to all participants
24 August 1997	        Workshop date