workshop embedded mt systems call papers deadline extension announcement new submission deadline august 24 1998 workshop announcement workshop embedded mt systems call papers design construction evaluation systems mt component wednesday october 28 1998 preceding amta 98 conference sheraton bucks county hotel langhorne pennsylvania introduction strengths weaknesses machine translation mt engines become better understood accepted marked increase development computer systems embedded mt component one consequence shift embedded mt researchers developers well users begun pushing limits input systems accept translation new class problems surfaced input whether appears physical form paper electronic form online mixed another modality graphics video bring unknown mix noisy natural language data well nonlinguistic data systems mt component designed evaluated given challenge input brings objective workshop examine evaluate techniques adjusting linguistic impedance mismatch realworld input natural language input expected various mt engines thus workshop focus computational approaches preprocessing system input mt engines statistical methods evaluating systems embedded mt component linguistic preprocessing image data researchers working image data currently underway effort augment ocr optical character recognition engines linguistic data recognize convert bitmap data characters similar already done speech recognition linguistic data hmms hidden markov models ocr researchers also experimented imagelevel early topic detection using wordshape recognition principle could provide firststep filtering documents homogeneous mt input set desirable goal mt evaluation thus expect individuals working intending incorporate ocr computer systems interested new area linguistic preprocessing online data working online input even though characters already present often still remains task preprocessing meaningful symbolic character strings part text translated systems rules identifying encapsulating removing strings may need handcrafted time mt engine limitations surface others combination handcrafted rules statistically trained nl models worked many observed html annotations alphanumeric items spreadsheet word processing codes harder weed originally expected research efforts lowdensity lesscommonly taught languages well common ones encounter substantial problem variation spelling conventions transcription preferences natural languages primarily spoken written example frequently case researchers working class problem built variants spell checkers sc components standardize words one orthography spelling convention submitting mt engine idea arisen component build option adjust level sc correction would relevant input ocr nonetheless varies noisy relatively clean evaluation embedded mt systems among working statistical methods evaluating systems embedded mt component seen two distinct trends one group statisticians begun looking appropriate models outside world mt evaluation examining efforts others take distinct metrics components combine overall systemlevel metric using fuzzy mathematics another group researchers looking instead developing onedimensional scale ranking mt engines along continuum defined systemlevel function approach example might rank one engine good enough filtering documents another engine deemed linguistically robust would ranked higher could generate good enough initial translation subsequent postediting welcome functional evaluations mt components computer systems embedded mt components well submissions submitters invited send short paper 5 pages addressing one three areas discussed papers define problem embedded mt system focus work describe embedded mt system design simple sketch sample input data relevant present approach problem work various stages completion acceptable expect current status work made clear submission endto end output embedded mt system especially encouraged papers collected distributed participants workshop ideally result workshop clearer delineation 1 range linguistic preprocessing problems 2 range designs embedded mt systems 3 problems treated different embedded mt systems 4 metrics used evaluate systems components dates notice interest participation july 10 1998 voss arl mil please identify three areas intend address preprocessing image data preprocessing online data evaluation embedded mt systems position paper submission august 10 1998 note august 24 1998 notifications september 10 1998 note september 17 1998 final copies papers october 10 1998 workshop october 28 1998 submissions may printed electronic form submissions sent clare voss army research laboratory amsrlis ci 2800 powder mill road adelphi md 20783 phone 301 3945615 fax 301 3943903 email voss arl mil registration fee conference 50 non presenters accepted firstcome first served basis strongly encourage participation embedded mt system users well members research development communities copy call registration form 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