Corpora: First CFP: MT 2000 Conference

From: Roger Harris (rwsh@dircon.co.uk)
Date: Wed Sep 06 2000 - 23:41:07 MET DST

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    British Computer Society
    Natural Language Translation Specialist Group
    URL: http://www.bcs.org.uk/siggroup/sg37.htm

    MT 2000 - MACHINE TRANSLATION AND MULTILINGUAL APPLICATIONS IN
    THE NEW MILLENNIUM

    University of Exeter, United Kingdom: 19-22 November 2000

    FIRST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

    The Natural Language Translation Specialist Group of the British
    Computer Society and the University of Exeter announce an
    international conference to be held at the University of Exeter, UK
    from Sunday evening 19 November to Wednesday morning 22 November 2000.
    The event is a follow-up of the successful conference "Machine
    Translation: Ten Years On" held in 1994 at Cranfield University, UK.

    Against the backdrop of an increasingly multilingual society, MT 2000
    looks at the main challenges to MT and multilingual NLP at the dawn of
    the new millennium. The focus of this year's conference is not only
    recent machine translation research and products, but also the latest
    multilingual developments in general. There are contributions from
    researchers, users, educationalists and exhibitors in the field of
    multilingual language engineering. Further information can be obtained
    from our website at http://www.bcs.org.uk/siggroup/sg37.htm.

    There will be daily keynote addresses as well as individual papers.
    All papers presented at the conference will be available as a volume
    of proceedings at the conference. A selection of papers may be
    published in book form after the conference. There is also an
    exhibition area for producers of multilingual software and a bookstall.

    Attendees might like to know that the annual ASLIB conference on
    "Translating and the Computer" takes place in London on the preceding
    Thursday/Friday 16-17 November. Further information can obtained from
    their website at http://www.aslib.co.uk.

    Keynote Speakers:

    Martin Kay (Xerox PARC)
    Jun-ichi Tsujii (University of Tokyo)
    Yorick Wilks (Sheffield University)

    Papers:

    Details of all 31 accepted papers are on our web-site at
    http://www.bcs.org.uk/siggroup/nalatran/mt2000/papers.htm

    Location:

    MT 2000 is being held at the Crossmeads Conference Centre at the
    University of Exeter. Exeter is an historic city in the heart of Devon
    in the South West of England. The campus is celebrated as one of the
    most beautiful in the United Kingdom. Exeter's international airport
    is a few miles away. There are good rail and coach links with London,
    Birmingham and other UK cities. Please see their website for further
    information at http://www.exeter.ac.uk.

    Information will be available about a number of local attractions for
    people accompanying attendees.

    Programme (the final programme with the exact time-slots
    will be announced in the second call for participation)

    Sunday, 19 November 2000

    1.00 - 7.00 pm Registration
    2.00 - 5.00 pm Possible local visit with Guide
    7.00 - 9.00 pm Reception and Buffet dinner

    Monday, 20 November 2000

    9.00 am Opening - Keynote paper
                                       Other papers
            
    Tuesday, 21 November 2000

    9.00 am Keynote paper
                                       Other papers

                                       Banquet

    Wednesday, 22 November 2000

    9.00 am Keynote paper
                                       Other papers

                                       Lunch

                                       Departure

    Fees and Registration:

    Conference fee:

                                             Standard Members* Students

    two and a half days GBP 250 GBP 210 GBP 140
    one day GBP 120 GBP 100 GBP 70
    half day (Wednesday) GBP 60 GBP 50 GBP 35
        

    * Discounted rates for members of BCS, IAMT, EAMT and ASLIB.

    Accommodation and meals (including Banquet) from Sunday evening
    to Wednesday morning

    En-suite room GBP 170

    Standard room (limited no.) GBP 140

    Meals without accommodation GBP 70

    A discount of 10% will be allowed on the Conference Fees (only) for
    payment before the end of September 2000.

    Cancellation fee after end of October 2000: Any amount paid for
    accommodation and/or meals etc.

    To register and to reserve accommodation please use this registration form

    Registration for MT 2000:

    Title: ______________________________________________
    Name and initials: ____________________________________
    Name for lapel label: __________________________________
    Affiliation for lapel label: ________________________________
    Address: ___________________________________________
    E-mail address: ______________________________________
    Telephone no: _______________________________________
    Fax no: ____________________________________________

    Please specify any dietary or other requirements.

    Payment must be made before or on arrival.

    Any other arrangement must be made in advance of arrival by contacting
    Mr. D.R.Lewis at Exeter University (d.r.lewis@exeter.ac.uk).

    Methods of Payment

    Either ...

    By sterling cheque drawn on a U.K. bank made payable to Exeter
    University, a/c MT 2000, addressed to Mr. D.R. Lewis, The Foreign
    Language Centre, University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4 4QH, U.K.,

    or,

    By bank transfer to National Westminster Bank, Exeter University
    branch (Sort Code: 600806), for the account of Exeter University,
    account no: 00724890. Note: Please ensure your payment includes
    all bank charges,

    or,

    By invoice (payment must reach us by 13 November 2000)
        Note: Please supply purchase order number if possible,

    or,

    By MasterCard/Visa credit card
      Please supply your 16 digit account number, expiry date, card
      holder's name and card holder's address if different from above.

    Thankyou.

    We look forward to seeing you at the Conference.



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