From: matsu@cactus.kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp (Yuji MATSUMOTO)
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Subject: TMI-93: Call-for-Papers
Date: 9 Jan 93 07:06:15 GMT
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Organization: Electr. Eng. II, Kyoto Univ., Kyoto, Japan.


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		       Call-for-Papers  TMI-93
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		 The Fifth Internatinal Conference on
	       Theoretical and Methodological Issues in
			 Machine Translation
		      with special emphasis on:
		      MT in the Next Generation

			   July 14-16, 1993
	  Kyoto International Community House, Kyoto, Japan

A number of  commercial MT systems  were  announced in  the mid  80's.
This and the MT researches carried out during the time led us to learn
many  lessons.    Although some  of  the theories   and  methodologies
proposed in the  past are useful  in the future,  we  find a number of
limitations in the  current MT systems.  In order  to expand  the text
domain,   the MT systems must   be   capable of  handling  texts  with
non-literal reading including  metaphorical expressions.  Difficulties
also arise   in  the analysis of  texts  with  ellipses  and anaphoric
expressions, which have    prevented us from developing   competent MT
systems.  Although contextual analysis is important, we are not in the
position of coping with the full range of the obstacles.  The time has
come  to sort out    the   problems and    to seek  new   theories and
methodologies for {\bf MT in the next  generation}.  The methodologies
should   particularly  take     into  account  the   future   computer
technologies.

This  conference aims  at discussing the  problems  in  the current MT
systems, looking for new  solutions,  and  producing new paradigms for
the next generation MT systems.

Submissions are invited on   substantial  and original  researches  in
theories and methodologies  of Machine Translation, including, but not
limited to the following topics:

 o Natural language analysis (in particular contextual analysis,
	non-literal text analysis etc.)
 o New architechture for the next generation MT systems
	(in particular parallel processing)
 o New MT approaches (analogy-based, case-based, etc.)
 o Multilingual MT systems
 o Integration of MT systems and speech understanding
 o Dictionaries for new generation MT systems
 o Construction of very large knowledge bases for MT systems
 o Text corpora for MT (in particular multilingual corpora)
 o Evaluation techniques
 o Friendly human/machine interfaces

The Fifth  International Conference on  Theoretical and Methodological
Issues on Machine Translation  (TMI'93)  will be held preceding the MT
Summit IV, which is held in Kobe  on  July 19-21, 1993.   The TMI is a
submission-based conference, whereas the MT summit is an invited-based
conference.  The TMI'93  is particularly   interested in the   topical
issues on MT in the next generation.

We  aim at bringing  together users of MT  systems, scientisits in the
research of    MT,  and  government   policy  makers   to  promote the
development of practical MT systems and to  investigate ways and means
for their practical use in the  society.  Although  the program of the
MT  Summit will  be  primarily invited bases, the  participants of the
TMI'93 are invited to attend and join the discussions at MT Summit IV.

Paper Submission and Timetable
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Six  copies of the  papers should be  received  by  February 28, 1993.
Papers are  restricted to  20 double-spaced pages  (approximately 5000
words)  including figures.  Each paper   must contain a 200--250  word
abstract.  Papers must  be written and  presented in English.   Papers
will be reviewed by international referees.

Notification  of  acceptance or rejection will  be   sent to the first
author (or designated author) on April 15, 1993.

Camera-ready copy for  the proceedings  should be received by May  31,
1993.

Submissions should be addressed to:
  Yuji Matsumoto, TMI-93
  Department of Electrical Engineering
  Kyoto University
  Yoshida Honmachi, Sakyo,
  Kyoto 606 Japan
  Tel: +81-75-753-5345
  Fax: +81-75-751-1576
  Email: matsu@pine.kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Organizations
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TMI'93 Organizing Committee
by the sponsorship of Japan Association for Natural Language Processing.

General Chairperson:
  Hozumi Tanaka
  Department of Computer Science
  Tokyo Institute of Technology
  2-12-1, \^Ookayama, Meguro,
  Tokyo 152 Japan
  tmi93@cs.titech.ac.jp

Program Committee:

  Yuji Matsumoto (Chairperson, Kyoto Univ., Japan)
  Kenneth Church (Bell Labs, USA)
  Hideki Hirakawa (Toshiba, Japan)
  Hitoshi IIda (ATR, Japan)
  Pierre Isabelle (CWARC, Canada)
  Hiroaki Kitano (NEC & CMU, Japan)
  Hiroshi Maruyama (IBM Japan, Japan)
  Hirosato Nomura (Kushu Institute of Technology, Japan)
  Steve Pulman (SRI Cambridge, UK)
  Christian Rohrer (Stuttgart Univ., Germany)
  Ryoich Sugimura (Matsushita, Japan)
  Takenobu Tokunaga (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
  Jun'ichi Tsujii (UMIST, UK)
  Muriel Vasconcellos (AMTA, USA)
  Yorick Wilks (New Mexico, USA)

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Yuji Matsumoto
Department of Electrical Engineering
Kyoto University
e-mail: matsu@kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp
phone:  +81-75-753-5345