Machine Translation Review
No. 13, December 2002
ISSN: 1358-8346
This page URL: http://www.bcs.org.uk/siggroup/nalatran/mtreview/mtr-13/4.htm
Group News and Information
Letter from the Chairman
The British Computer Society
Charity No. 292786
THE NATURAL LANGUAGE TRANSLATION SPECIALIST GROUP
Please reply to:
72 Brattle Wood,
Sevenoaks,
Kent, TN13 1QU.
Tel: 01732 455446
E-mail: wiggjd@bcs.org.uk
We have enjoyed another successful year culminating with the Workshop on Teaching MT organised jointly with the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT) which was well attended in November. The Proceedings will soon be available from the EAMT website at http://www.eamt.org.
I have been experimenting with some of the free translation systems which have been available on the internet for a while now. I found them interesting, entertaining, educational, and surprisingly enough, sometimes useful. We are now considering a project to find out the best way of using them. Anybody interested in this research should contact me as soon as possible. We hope to publish the results on our website in due course.
I would like to take this opportunity of reminding you that our web master, Roger Harris, would very much welcome more information or updates to be loaded onto our website. If you looked there for something but did not find it but you found it somewhere else please let him know so it could be included in future for other people.
I have just realised that I gave an incorrect address for our e-mail list in the last issue. It should have been bcs-mt@jiscmail.ac.uk. Perhaps that accounts for the list being rather quiet last year. To join, send an e-mail to jiscmail@jiscmail.ac.uk with 'join bcs-mt your_firstname your_surname' in the message area. Leave the subject line blank. Please contribute to the list via bcs-mt@jiscmail.ac.uk. Subscription to the list is free but don’t forget that postings are automatically circulated to all subscribers.
Once again I must ask you to consider contributing to this Review. We would still welcome more articles, papers and reports on the theory and practice of machine translation and related subjects such as computer assisted language teaching, computer based dictionaries and aspects of multi-linguality in computing, etc. We welcome papers from staff and students in linguistics and related disciplines, and from translators and any other users of MT software.
Members do not need to live near London to assist the Committee. We do not always 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.
David Wigg
January 2003
The Committee
The telephone numbers and e-mail addresses of the Committee are as follows:
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Website
The website address of the BCS-NLTSG is:
http://www.bcs.org.uk/siggroup/nalatran/
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