nirenburg%umass-cs.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa (09/21/84)
From: Sergei Nirenburg <nirenburg%umass-cs.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa> ACM SIGART SPECIAL SECTION ON MACHINE TRANSLATION AND RELATED TOPICS A special section on MT and related work is planned for an early 1985 issue of the SIGART Newsletter. The purpose of the section is: 1. To update the knowledge of the new paradigms in MT in the AI community 2. To help MT workers to learn about developments in AI that can be useful for them in their projects 3. To provide the MT community with updated information about current, recent and nascent MT projects 4. To help identify major topics, results and, especially, directions for future research. Contributions are solicited from MT workers, as well as all workers in AI, theoretical, computational and applied linguistics and other related fields who feel that their work has a bearing on MT (machine-aided human translation; automatic dictionary management; parsing and generating natural language; knowledge representation for specialized domains; discourse analysis; sublanguages and subworlds, etc., etc.) A detailed questionnaire to help you in preparing a response is available from the guest editor, Sergei Nirenburg Department of Computer Science Colgate University Hamilton NY 13346 USA (315) 824-1000 ext. 586 nirenburg@umass If you know of people interested in MT-related activities who are not on a net, please let them know about this call. The deadline for submissions is DECEMBER 1, 1984. Electronic submissions are welcome