anaphora resolution special issue machine translation journal call papers machine translation journal special issue anaphora resolution machine translation guest editor ruslan mitkov university wolverhampton interpretation anaphora crucial successful operation machine translation system particular essential resolve anaphoric relation translating languages mark gender pronouns unfortunately majority mt systems developed seventies eighties adequately address problems identifying antecedents anaphors source language producing anaphoric equivalents target language consequence limited number mt systems successful translating discourse rather isolated sentences one reason situation addition anaphora resolution complicated task translation adds dimension problem reference discourse entity encoded source language anaphor speaker writer identified hearer translator translation system also reencoded coreferential expression different language nineties seen intensification research efforts anaphora resolution machine translation seen growing number related projects reported promising new results e g wada 1990 leass schwall 1991 nakaiwa ikehara 1992 chen 1992 saggion carvalho 1994 preu _ et al 1994 nakaiwa et al 1994 nakaiwa et al 1995 nakaiwa ikehara 1995 mitkov et al 1995 mitkov et al 1997 however still feel additional work needed highlight explore specifics problem operational mt environments including fully automatic machine translation machine aided translation inviting highquality original research papers describing recent advances anaphora resolution machine translation topics addressed include limited operational anaphora resolution components machine translation resolution zero pronouns mt environments lexical transfer anaphors across languages extent latest trends towards knowledgepoor corpus driven robust approaches anaphora resolution called upon machine translation scalable contributory factors resolution strategies mt makes anaphora resolution complex task machine translation submission format articles submitted directly publishers either email ellen klink wkap nl subject header submission coat anaphora special issue hardcopy machine translation editorial office kluwer academic publishers p box 990 3300 az dordrecht netherlands machine translation editorial office kluwer academic publishers p box 230 accord 02018023 u submission deadline 15 may 1997 journal typeset using latex preferred medium submission articles electronic format latex source using kluwer style file gzipped postscript details please consult journal web pages home page http kapis www wkap nl journalhome htm 09226567 instructions authors http kapis www wkap nl kaphtml htm ifa09226567 latex style files http kapis www wkap nl jrnlstyle htm 09226567 submitting hardcopy four copies paper required length papers approximately 1020 pages using kluwer style file around 20k words authors also requested send copy abstract 200 words guest editor r mitkov wlv ac uk hardcopy ruslan mitkov school languages european studies university wolverhampton stafford st wolverhampton wv1 1sb united kingdom guest editor ruslan mitkov school languages european studies university wolverhampton stafford st wolverhampton wv1 1sb telephone 441902 322471 fax 441902 322739 email r mitkov wlv ac uk guest editorial board breck baldwin university pennsylvania philadelphia david carter sri international cambridge guenter goerz university nuernberg erlangen lynette hirschman mitre mclean richard kittredge university montreal susan luperfoy mitre mclean tony mcenery lancaster university ruslan mitkov university wolverhampton frederique segond ranx xerox grenoble harold somers umist manchester keh yih su national tsing hua university taiwan yorick wilks university sheffield