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18 January 2001

'I regret that we have been unable to produce another MT Review until now as it has not been possible with our limited resources to publish another issue as well as organise the MT Conference in the Autumn.

I'm happy to say that our fourth International Machine Translation Conference, MT 2000, held at the Crossmead Conference Centre at Exeter University under the calm and efficient guidance of Derek Lewis at the University, was a great success and the 60 various attendees were well served both in educational and culinary terms. Copies of the Proceedings are now available from Derek Lewis at £20 for members (please see our website at http://www.bcs.org.uk/siggroup/sg37.htm for details of cost of postage etc.).

We also have to thank Professor Ruslan Mitkov from Wolverhampton University for his invaluable contribution in organising the paper reviewing processes and for putting the programme together.

There are some changes afoot in the Group. As you will already know, this Review is being published first on our website from which printed copies can be obtained easily. However, we shall produce some printed copies for the Copyright Libraries and for sale at a modest price of £2.00 for those who would like printed copies (please see our website for details of cost of postage etc.).

What you will not know is that we have regretfully decided to reduce the number of issues from two to only one per year.

We have also decided to transfer our mailing list which is maintained at the British Computer Society Headquarters to an automated e-mail service elsewhere. We will be contacting our membership about this in the near future.

Once again we must ask you to consider contributing to this Review. We would still welcome more articles, papers and reports on the subject of machine translation and related subjects such as computer assisted language teaching, computer based dictionaries and aspects of multilinguality in computing etc. We would welcome papers from staff and students in linguistics and related disciplines, and from translators and any other users of MT software.

May I remind members yet again, that they do not need to live near London to assist the Committee. We do not have sufficient funds to pay travel expenses for all Committee members to attend meetings, but we still welcome Correspondent members. Correspondent committee members are otherwise treated as full members of the committee and kept advised of all committee business. Anyone interested in helping should contact me or any other Committee member.

Our committee still requires a treasurer, although in our case the role is more of an auditor since all our transactions are processed by the BCS. This post does, of course, require some knowledge of accounting, but not much I'm glad to say, and, as mentioned above this does not need to be for someone in the London area. Anybody interested to know more, please contact me.

All opinions expressed in this Review are those of the respective writers and are not necessarily shared by the BCS or the Group.'

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