CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS

Proposals for workshops are now being solicited on topics of direct interest and impact for MT researchers, developers, vendors or users of MT technologies. Workshops should bring together groups of people involved in a specific problem area of machine translation, to advance the state of the art in that area.

Workshops will be held on 18th and 19th September, and will normally last a whole day (approx. 7 hours). Workshops can take a variety of forms, including refereed and invited papers, or other activities. Proposers will be asked to issue their own "Call for Papers", and to maintain a web site giving information about the submission procedure and, later on, the full programme. Working language of the workshops will normally be English; however, it is acceptable to have a second (or alternative) working language if this is appropriate to the theme of the workshop. This should be stated clearly on the proposal.

Submissions should be made to the Workshop Chair (e-mail: Harold.Somers@umist.ac.uk) by December 15, 2000. They should include the theme and goal of the workshop, the planned activities, plans for publishing preprints or proceedings, a calendar of deadlines for submission, notification and, if appropriate, camera-ready copy, and an estimate of the number of participants.

Important Dates

15 Dec. 2000	Deadline for Workshop proposals
15 Jan. 2001	Notification of acceptance of proposal
15 April 2001	Main conference paper submission deadline
30 May 2001	Main conference paper notification
1 July 2001	Main conference camera-ready copy deadline

For general conference information and further details as it becomes available, visit the MT Summit web site