chinese oriental language machine translation _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ call papers new communications colips international journal chinese oriental languages information processing society publish special issue machine translation introduction international journal communications colips devoted publication original theoretical applied research chinese oriental languages computing languages particular special issue focuses field machine translation recent years many researchers academia industry taken challenge build systems capable translating oriental vlanguages languages written text spoken languages special issue dedicated reporting stateof theart stateof thepractice machine translation mt original papers areas research field including limited following invited methodologies mt rulebased statisticsbased knowledgebased functionbased etc automatic semi automatic acquisition translation knowledge practical mt systems translation aids translation memory terminology databases etc speech dialogue machine translation natural language analysis generation techniques dictionaries lexicons mt systems text corpora mt user interfaces evaluation techniques mutil linguages mt translation corpora mt related technologies guidelines submission original papers submitted reviewed published published journals conferences areas mt invited special issue possible publication publication language english chinese paper submissions special issue communications colips format information format authors found http www comp nus edu sg colips commcolips need electronic copies word rtf postscript latex authors send four copies paper following special issue editor prof ren january 20 1999 dr fuji ren faculty information sciences hiroshima city university 3 4 1 ozuka higasi asa minami ku hiroshima 7313194 japan tel 8182 8301584 fax 8182 8301584 8182 8301792 email ren hiroshimacu 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 information sciences hiroshima city university 3 4 1 ozuka higasi asa minami ku hiroshima 7313194 japan information updated information special issue well communication colips available http www comp nus edu sg colips commcolips authors also contact chairman colips dr lua kim teng school computing national university singapore kent ridge road singapore 119260 fax 657794580 tel 658742782 email luakt comp nus edu sg