Subject: Conference announcement: AMTA-98 (Machine Translation) 
From: Eduard Hovy <hovy@ISI.EDU>
To: elsnet-list@cogsci.ed.ac.uk
Cc: lgerber@systransoft.com, david@crl.nmsu.edu
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 13:24:15 -0800 (PST)


       AMTA-98:  MACHINE TRANSLATION AND THE INFORMATION SOUP
         (MT in a growing field of language technologies)

                The Sheraton Bucks County Hotel
                  Langhorne, Pennsylvania
                    October 28-31, 1998

Organized by

  AMTA - Association for Machine Translation in the Americas

The Association for Machine Translation in the Americas is pleased to
convene its third conference in the biennial series, to be held at the
Sheraton Bucks County Hotel in Langhorne, PA, on 28-31 October, with
tutorials and welcoming reception on Wednesday, October 28.

The MT Summit last year commemorated the 50th anniversary of machine
translation.  During that time, MT grew from a tantalizing dream to a
respectable and stable scientific-linguistic enterprise, with users,
commercial systems, university research, and Government participation.
But until very recently, MT has been performed in a relatively
isolated manner, as a distinct enterprise.

This situation is changing rapidly.  The explosive growth of the web
has brought multilingual text into the reach of nearly everyone with a
computer.  It is increasingly urgent that the various types of
language processing technologies--information retrieval, automated
summarization, multimodal and multilingual display, and machine
translation--be interconnected.

AMTA invites all who are interested in any aspect of Machine
Translation--developers, researchers, users, and watchers--to attend
the conference in October.  At AMTA-98 we will focus on methods of
integrating the language technologies, with invited speakers, panel
discussions, papers by researchers and developers, workshops,
tutorials, and more.  Participation by members of AMTA's sister
organization, AAMT in Asia and EAMT in Europe, is strongly encouraged.
And people working in related areas, such as information retrieval and
summarization, are very welcome to attend.


REGISTRATION FORM 

A copy of the AMTA-98 registration form will soon be posted on the Web
at:

  http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/AMTA98.html 


THE PROGRAM

Once again there will be something for everyone!  Retaining the
pattern of parallel sessions established by its predecessors, AMTA-98
will offer a mixture of:

- invited talks
- panels on current and debated issues
- practical and theoretical papers
- tutorials
- live theater-style system demonstrations
- exhibits of systems and products

FEATURED SPEAKERS

- Situating MT in the Information (Language Technology) Soup
- Commercial Demands on MT
- What can MT Technology Deliver?
- Integration of MT with Other Language Tools

SPECIAL SESSIONS

- MT Related Language Technologies
- Automatic Extraction of Bilingual Lexicons
- The Future of the Lexicon in MT

PANELS

- New Users: Implementing MT Technology
- The AMTA/IAMT Seal of Approval: Sorting the Good from the Bad
- Future Needs: Breaking the Quality Ceiling

SYSTEM DEMONSTRATIONS

Demonstrations will be given both in a theater-style setting as part of 
the regular program and on tabletops, where non-commercial systems will 
be presented on an announced schedule.  Demonstrations will occur in 
parallel with the research paper sessions.  

RESEARCH PAPERS

Papers on a variety of topics, written and presented by researchers,
practitioners and users of Machine Translation and related language
technologies will be presented in sessions parallel to the system
demonstrations.

EXHIBITS

In addition to the scheduled demonstrations, vendor booths will showcase
commercial products on an ongoing basis throughout the conference.

TUTORIALS

Participants may choose from a number of tutorials to be held in the
morning and the afternoon of Wednesday, 28 October.

ACCOMMODATIONS: The Sheraton Bucks County Hotel - Langhorne, PA

Conveniently located in an area renowned for its beauty, history
and culture, the Sheraton Bucks County Hotel offers easy access
to Philadelphia, New York and New Jersey.  Just off I-95 and Route
1, northeast of Philadelphia, it is minutes away from planes, trains 
and turnpikes, right in the heart of Berenstein Bears countryside.
Guests are surrounded by unique shopping, sightseeing and enter-
tainment opportunities including Sesame Place, Peddler's Village,
and the Franklin Mills Mall, and minutes away from historic New Hope.
Atlantic City and the Pennsylvania Dutch country are easy day trips.

This recently built, colonial style hotel has 187-rooms.  Accommodations 
include luxurious suites for corporate lodging and entertaining, and an 
executive floor.  Spacious guest rooms are soundproof and feature 
individually controlled air conditioning, direct two-line touch-tone
phones, cable TV with remote control, and coffee makers.  The elegant 
hospitality is complete with valet parking, a hair salon for men and women,
valet service, gift shop, video game room, fully-equipped spa with indoor
pool, state-of-the-art exercise equipment, jacuzzi, steam room and
sauna.  Guests and members may receive individualized expert assistance
with their fitness programs.

Further information will be available from:

  http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/AMTA98.html 

RELATED EVENTS

- Wednesday, Welcoming reception in Exhibit Area (complementary) 
- Friday, Banquet at the University of Pennsylvania Museum
- Saturday, Optional tour of historic downtown Philadelphia area:
        Independence Mall, Liberty Bell, etc.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Please contact Eduard Hovy at the address below if you have further
questions about the program, site, or accommodations, or to request
the AMTA-98 registration packet, which includes a map and directions
for ground transportation.

For more information as it becomes available, as well as a printable
copy of the AMTA-98 registration form, see:

  http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/AMTA98.html 


ORGANIZERS 

Conference Chair
     Eduard Hovy
     USC Information Sciences Institute
     4676 Admiralty Way
     Marina del Rey,  CA 90292-6695
     USA
     Tel: +1-310-822-1511 ext. 731
     Fax: +1-310-823-6714
     Email: hovy@isi.edu

Program Chairs
     Laurie Gerber 
     SYSTRAN Software, Inc.
     7855 Fay Avenue, Suite 300
     La Jolla, CA  92037
     USA
     Tel: +1-619-459-6700 ext. 119
     Fax: +1-619-459-8487
     Email: lgerber@systransoft.com

     David Farwell
     Computing Research Laboratory
     New Mexico State University
     Box 3001/3CRL
     Las Cruces, New Mexico  88003
     USA
     Tel: +1-505-646-5108
     Fax: +1-505-646-6218
     Email: david@crl.nmsu.edu

Local Arrangements Chair
     Martha Palmer 
     Department of Computer and Information Science 
     University of Pennsylvania 
     200 S. 33rd Street 
     Philadelphia, PA 19104 
     Tel: +1-215-898-2661
     Fax: +1-215-898-0587
     Email: mpalmer@linc.cis.upenn.edu 

Exhibits Coordinator
     Kim Belvin 
     659 Dell Street
     Solana Beach, CA  92075
     Tel: +1-619-481-8446
     Fax: +1-619-350-8613

AMTA Focal Point
     Deborah Becker
     Association for Machine Translation in the Americas
     1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Suite 300
     Washington, DC 20004
     USA
     Tel/fax: +1-703-716-0912
     Email: amta@clark.net 


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Eduard Hovy
email: hovy@isi.edu          USC Information Sciences Institute 
tel: 310-822-1511 ext 731    4676 Admiralty Way 
fax: 310-823-6714            Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695 
project homepage: http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/nlp-at-isi.html


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