3rd machine translation conference amta98 call submissions association machine translation americas amta98 conference langhorne pa october 2831 1998 machine translation information soup mt growing field language technologies following successful amta conferences 1994 1996 third conference association machine translation americas held langhorne pa sheraton bucks county hotel october 2831 1998 mt summit last year commemorated 50th anniversary machine translation time mt grew tantalizing dream respectable stable scientificlinguistic enterprise users commercial systems university research government participation recently mt performed relatively isolated manner distinct enterprise situation changing rapidly explosive growth web brought multilingual text reach nearly everyone computer increasingly urgent various types language processing technologies information retrieval automated summarization multimodal multilingual display machine translation interconnected something everyone retaining pattern established predecessors amta98 offer blend invited talks panel discussions research papers system demonstrations descriptions tutorials workshops book exhibits social events four days conference also facilitate gatherings special interest groups topics ranging interlinguas ontologies lexicons standards data exchange mt pcs mt evaluation overall intent conference bring together mt developers researchers users share latest information mt forge partnerships addressing challenge language barriers impede communication information highway participation members amta sister organizations europe asia strongly encouraged invited talks panel discussions highlight topical controversial questions encouraging lively interactions past conferences theory sessions technical papers address wide range topics practical sessions problems developing bringing mt systems market intergrating mt technology workplace discussed addition booths rented display systems products conference organizers general chair eduard hovy usc information sciences institute program chairs david farwell crl new mexico state university laurie gerber systran software inc san diego local arrangements chair martha palmer university pennsylvania amta98 paper system description demonstration submissions authors system developers invited submit three kinds presentations 1 theoretical papers unpublished papers requested original work aspects machine translation however given theme year conference special consideration given papers address advances multilingual language information technologies potential impact machine translation papers english longer 10 pages minimum character font size 11 pt 2 system descriptions optional system demonstrations approx 25 minutes allocated per system description demo submissions english longer 4 pages system demonstration included please provide following information hardware platform operating system name contact information system operations specialist 3 studies users experiences implementing mt testing applicability task users marketing consultants especially welcome submit studies english longer 8 pages minimum character font size 11 pt first page types submission include separate title page following information paper title author name address es telephone fax numbers email address es oneparagraph abstract theoretical papers subject area keyword user studies words user study system descriptions demos words system description demo submissions due address june 1 1998 authors notified acceptance july 15 1998 final copies papers due august 31 1998 softcopy submissions papers print returned author email address david crl nmsu edu subject line amta98 submission paper encoding ascii plain text microsoft word rtf format postscript hardcopy submissions please send four 4 copies amta98 david farwell computing research laboratory box 30001 3crl new mexico state university las cruces nm 88003 usa amta98 tutorial workshop submissions proposals tutorials workshops also welcome time topics direct interest impact mt researchers developers vendors users mt technologies approx 3 hours allocated per tutorial approx 7 hours may allocated per workshop please state topic addressed rationale addressing structure activities submissions english longer 4 pages please submit proposals soon possible david farwell address proposals must submitted april 3 1998 general conference information details becomes available visit http www isi edu naturallanguage amta98 html eduard hovy email hovy isi edu usc information sciences institute tel 310822 1511 ext 731 4676 admiralty way fax 310823 6714 marina del rey ca 902926695 project homepage http www isi edu naturallanguage nlpat isi html