Research in Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics began over 50 years ago. Research in the 3 disciplines of controlled languages, machine translation and data and sense mining has however been done separately for the most part, and it would be useful to combine these three disciplines. The primary objective of this conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners in controlled languages, machine translation and sense mining. Some controlled languages already take into account machine translation but they have not yet been linked to research done in the field of sense mining. In the field of controlled languages the objective is to eliminate as much ambiguity as possible. In contrast, in the field of sense mining, the objective is to identify the important elements amongst large amounts of texts (sometimes even badly structured texts), in order to extract their meaning. Machine translation quality is governed and aided by minimising the representation of utterances. In consequence, the combination of these approaches could be of considerable use in creating new machine translation theories. The combination of controlled languages and machine translation is certainly not new, but there is still much work to be done. Other combinations are deemed to be of interest too and it certainly seems to be the case that the separate disciplines can profit from their mutual interrelation.

In particular, multi-disciplinary contributions are welcomed, especially concerning these disciplines and related disciplines, whether linguistic or operational. Particular attention will be given to results where the applications demand high quality and maximum utility and where orthogonal constraints intervene. For example in domains such as aeronautics, natural catastrophes and pandemics, both temporal as well as functional quality constraints co-exist where these various disciplines and their overlaps are involved in aids to crisis management (CL & MT: rapid reliable writing of alerts and their dependable translation with no time for pre- or post-edition; SM: dependability in decision support scenarios).

Papers are invited in the following areas:
* Controlled Languages
* Machine Translation
* Data and Sense Mining
* Speech Recognition
* Speech Synthesis
* Natural Language Generation
* Anaphora Resolution
* Word Sense Disambiguation
* Text and Speech Interfaces
* Information Extraction
* Information Retrieval
* Corpus Analysis
* Need for normalisation,
* Medical needs and applications,
* Aeronautic needs and applications
* Civil security needs and applications
* General security needs and applications

Papers for presentation must be submitted before March 31, 2009.
Guidelines for submission will be published at:
http://www.ismtcl.org/

Organising Committee:
* Sylviane Cardey-Greenfield (Chair) UFC (University of
Franche-Comté)
* Dominique Vuitton UFC
* Mariette Mercier UFC
* Peter Greenfield UFC
* Julie Renahy UFC
* Gabriel Sekunda UFC
* Izabella Thomas UFC
* Mohand Beddar UFC
* Gan Jin UFC
* Dilber Devitre UFC
* Raksi Anantalapochai UFC
* Ziad Mitaki UFC

ISMTCL is sponsored by:
* The European Community
* The ANR (Agence Nationale de la Recherche, France)
* Centre Tesnière, Université de Franche-Comté
* Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
* University of Wolverhampton
* Uniwersytet Warszawski
* Airbus
* Equipe Carcinogénèse épithéliale : facteurs prédictifs et
pronostiques of the Université de Franche-Comté
* Université Es Sénia, Oran

Contact : contact@ismtcl.org