TRANSLATING AND THE COMPUTER 30 - Conference and Exhibition
(27-28 November 2008, at the Holiday Inn Camden Lock, London).
Supported by EAMT, ITI, IoL, LISA and TILP
www.aslib.com/conferences

This conference focuses on the user's perspective of how computers/software is
used in translation. The conference series attracts a wide audience which
includes translation services managers, translators, business managers,
researchers and language experts. Once again, this year the conference will
address the latest developments in translation (and translation-related)
software. It will address the needs of the following conference attendees:
industry, public administration, agencies, freelancers and development.

This call for papers invites abstracts of papers to be presented at the
conference. The papers (and the presentations) should focus on the user aspects
of translation or translation-related software rather than on theoretical
issues. Presentations accompanied by demonstrations are especially welcome.

TOPICS

The range of topics includes (but is not limited to):
use of MT systems
CAT tools including TM and various translation aids
controlled languages and their use in MT
speech translation
terminology
localisation
multilingual document management/workflow
case studies of technology-based solutions
the Internet and translation aids/services
Application of XML tools and XML standards
Project Management
quality assurance tools
workflow systems
resources for translation including corpora
Integrated MT TM and terminology systems
Standardization / normalization in the industry
Corpus -based translation studies investigations
Voice recognition systems
Training possibilities for Translators
Translation/Localisation in emerging markets/ non-European/ US context
Open Source Software/ Workflow and implications
TM Copyright Issues
Practical experiences in transfer of terminology data from one format to another
(MultiTerm, NTRF, etc)
Language Services of International Organisations
Exchange between terminology, lexicography and MT-lexicons
Term extractions - tools and technologies
Statistical MT with case studies on cost savings
Hybrid solutions in practice including post-editing
e-Learning of translators
Practical and critical experience sharing of system implementation MT/TM
workflow
Wikis and other forms of massive online collaboration in translation

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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 POST or EMAIL by the
1st July 2008 to: Nicole Adamides, Conference Organiser, Aslib, The Holywell
Centre, 1 Phipp Street, London EC2A 4PS. Tel: +44(0) 20 7613 3031/ Fax: +44 (0)
20 7613 5080/ Email: tc30@aslib.com

The abstracts will be considered by the Programme Chairs, namely: Chris Pyne,
SAP; Professor Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton, Reinhard Schäler,
Ireland and Olaf-Michael Stefanov, Vienna. The authors of abstracts will be
notified of acceptance or rejection of their submissions by 1 August 2008. The
full length versions of the accepted papers will be included in the conference
proceedings and must be submitted by 27th October 2008. Speakers' presentations
must be submitted by 18th November 2008.


In brief, the deadlines are:
* 1 July 2008 - deadline for abstracts
* 1 August 2008 - all authors will be notified of decisions
* 27 October 2008 - full length versions of the accepted papers to Aslib
* 18 November 2008 - speakers' presentations to be submitted


Nicole Adamides, ASLIB Training
The Holywell Centre, 1 Phipp Street, London, EC2A 4PS
Tel: 020 7613 3031 Fax: 020 7613 5080
www.aslib.com/training Email: training@aslib.com