ASLIB - Call for Papers
Translating and the Computer 32 Conference

Supported by BCS NLTSG, EAMT, ITI, TILP


Abstract deadline extended to 15th July 2010!

The Conference will take place on 18-19 November 2010 at De Vere West One,
near Oxford Circus, London

This will be the thirty-second conference in the series. This event draws
together a diverse group of delegates, who gain new insights and brainstorm
ideas on the use of information technology for translation. In general, the
areas looked at are:
* language resources exchange
* tools, technologies and standards
* web-based collaboration models
* translation process control

This call for papers invites abstracts of papers to be presented at the
conference. Talks are slanted towards a practitioner's point of view, even
when dealing with the latest product developments and theoretical
research. The papers (and the presentations) should focus on the user
aspects of translation or translation-related software. Presentations
accompanied by demonstrations are especially welcome. A list of possible
topics appears below.

The conference is a meeting point for translation professionals from:
* large international and multilateral institutions such as those of
the European Union and the United Nations System
* translation agencies across the world
* professional translators
* tools and technology developers
* researchers and academics

Topics
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The range of topics includes (but is not limited to):
* Machine translation (MT) related topics
+ hybrid rule-based/statistical MT systems
+ general use of MT systems
+ controlled languages and their use in MT
+ revising for MT
+ integrated MT, Translation Memory (TM) and terminology systems
+ sharing practical and critical experiences of implementing MT
into the production workflow
+ is or should MT be different for end users and for translators?
+ post-editing MT
+ case-studies of cost-savings
+ portability of MT systems across languages and domains
+ MT for social networks
* Speech in the translation process
+ use of voice recognition to dictate translation
+ use of voice recognition to transcribe audio originals and
translations
+ voice recognition systems
+ can speech recognition help translators using TM or MT systems?
* CAT tools including TM and various translation aids
+ hybrid solutions in practice including post-editing
* Terminology
* Localisation
+ translation/Localisation in emerging markets/ non-European/ US
context
* Standards and sharing
+ application of XML tools and XML standards
+ standardisation / normalisation in the industry
+ the future of TMX (Translation Memory eXchange), TBX (TermBase
eXchange)
+ practical experiences in transfer of terminology data from one
format to another (MultiTerm, NTRF, etc)
+ exchange between terminology, lexicography and MT-lexicons
+ tools and technologies for term extraction
+ TM and Terminology collection Copyright Issues
+ wikis and other forms of massive online collaboration in
translation
+ practical reports on crowdsourcing
* Around the translation process
+ the Internet and translation aids/services
+ Project Management
+ quality assurance tools
+ revision aids/tools
+ online revision
+ workflow systems
+ multilingual document management/workflow
+ resources for translation including corpora
+ reference material and electronic referencing
+ corpus-based translation studies
+ Open Source Software/ Workflow and implications
+ post-editing
+ quality assurance
+ exact Translation: problems using tools, requirements
* Training and Research
+ training possibilities for Translators
+ e-Learning for translators
+ research in MT and multilingual NLP
+ bridging language industry and academia
+ measure the productivity/quality of e-translation
+ case studies, including especially cost-savings studies of
technology-based solutions
* Other topics
+ Language Services of International Organisations

Submission guidelines
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Authors are required to submit an abstract of a MINIMUM of 500 words of the
paper they would like to present, together with an outline of the structure
of the paper and short biography.

Abstracts should be sent by EMAIL by 15th July 2010 to: Nicole Adamides,
Conference Organiser, Aslib, Email: conferences@aslib.com

The abstracts will be considered by the Programme Chairs, namely: Alain
Désilets, National Research Council of Canada; Daniel Grasmick, Lucy
Software and Services; Professor Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton;
Chris Pyne, SAP; Reinhard Schäler, TILP; and Olaf-Michael Stefanov, Vienna.

The authors of abstracts will be notified of acceptance or rejection of
their submissions by 1 August 2010. Speakers' presentations must be
submitted by 12 November 2010.

In brief, the deadlines are:
* EXTENDED to 15 July 2010 - deadline for abstracts
* 1 August 2010 - all authors will be notified of decisions
* 10 October 2010 - deadline for papers to be included in the
Proceedings
* 12 November 2010 - speakers' presentations to be submitted
* 27 November 2010 - presentations posted on the conference web site in
a password protected area