Subject: chinese and oriental language / machine translation

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ call for papers ( new ) communications of colips - an international journal of the chinese and oriental languages information processing society will publish a special issue on machine translation introduction the international journal of communications of colips is devoted to the publication of original theoretical and applied research in chinese and oriental languages computing ( languages ) . in particular , this special issue focuses on the field of " machine translation " . in recent years , many researchers , both in academia and in industry , have taken up the challenge to build systems capable of translating oriental vlanguages and the other languages , both written text and spoken languages . this special issue is dedicated to reporting the state-of - the-art and / or state-of - the-practice in machine translation ( mt ) . original papers in all areas of research in this field , including , but not limited to , the following are invited : - methodologies for mt ( rule-based , statistics-based , knowledge-based , function-based , etc . ) - automatic or semi - automatic acquisition of translation knowledge - practical mt systems - translation aids ( translation memory , terminology databases , etc . ) - speech and dialogue machine translation - natural language analysis and generation techniques - dictionaries and lexicons for mt systems - text corpora for mt - user interfaces - evaluation techniques - mutil - linguages mt - translation corpora - mt and related technologies guidelines for submission original papers which are not submitted to , under reviewed by and published or to be published in other journals or conferences in any areas of mt are invited to this special issue for possible publication . the publication language is english or chinese . paper submissions to the special issue should be in the communications colips format . information for the format authors can be found at : http : / / www . comp . nus . edu . sg / ~ colips / commcolips / we need electronic copies in word , rtf , postscript or latex . authors should send four copies of their paper to the following special issue editor prof . ren by january 20 , 1999 : dr . fuji ren faculty of information sciences hiroshima city university 3 - 4 - 1 , ozuka - higasi , asa - minami - ku hiroshima , 731-3194 , japan tel : + 81-82 - 830-1584 fax : + 81-82 - 830-1584 or + 81-82 - 830-1792 email : ren @ its . hiroshima-cu . ac . jp important dates submission deadline : january 20 , 1999 . author notification : march 20 , 1999 . final version : may 5 , 1999 . publication : june , 1999 . special issue editor : dr . fuji ren faculty of information sciences hiroshima city university 3 - 4 - 1 , ozuka - higasi , asa - minami - ku hiroshima , 731-3194 , japan more information : updated information on the special issue as well as the communication colips is available at : http : / / www . comp . nus . edu . sg / ~ colips / commcolips / authors also can contact with chairman of colips : dr . lua kim teng school of computing , national university of singapore kent ridge road , singapore 119260 fax 65-7794580 tel 65-8742782 email : luakt @ comp . nus . edu . sg - - - - -
