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Letter from the Chairman
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First of all, my apologies for delaying publication once again, this time to
await finalisation of
the arrangements for the International Machine Translation
Conference, 'MT 2000' to be held
at Exeter University in November 2000. Please
make a note of the dates, Monday 20
November to Wednesday 22 November. You might
be interested to know that the annual
ASLIB Conference, 'Translation and the
Computer' is being held at the end of the previous
week in 2000.
If you would like to take part at MT 2000, either by presenting a paper or
otherwise attending,
further information will be available on our web site,
http://www.bcs.org.uk/siggroup/sg37.htm in due
course. In the meantime please contact
Derek Lewis at Exeter University, or any other
committee member.
As I mentioned last time, the Proceedings of the previous conference at
Cranfield in 1994 are
now available, and this time we reproduce another
paper from them by kind permission of the
author, Alan Melby, to encourage
you to buy a copy.
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 contact me or any other Committee member.
Our committee still requires a treasurer. 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.
Please 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.
Finally, I would like to take this opportunity of congratulating our
Web Master, Roger Harris,
on our web pages being quoted 40th out of the
top 50 most cited web pages on the
Natural Language Processing Topic by
'Links2Go' at http://www.links2go.com/topic/Natural_Language_Processing.
[Look for Bcs Specialist Group Natural Lan... under the 'Key Resources' heading]
Incidentally, they do provide an interesting contacts list.
All opinions expressed in this Review are those of the respective writers and
are not necessarily
shared by the BCS or the Group.
David Wigg
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