CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

The Fourth SIGIL Workshop will be held in conjunction with the AMTA 2000 conference in Cuernavaca, Mexico, on October 10, 2000.

The workshop will focus on the value of IL approaches for dealing with particular MT areas (such as tense/aspect/mood or noun-phrase structure) or with difficult MT problems (such as translation mismatches or non-literal language).

In the morning, participants will divide into workgroups. All of the workgroups will address certain difficult MT problems or complex language subsystems. However, each workgroup will be facilitated by leaders representing different IL approaches to Machine Translation. Where possible, the problems will be represented by naturally-occurring data.

Each workgroup will be provided by its facilitator with appropriate resources from that approach that bear on the problems: parse outputs, portions of ontologies, lexical entries, etc. They will then examine these resources, along with already implemented solutions, with an eye towards producing new solutions or improving old ones.

In the afternoon, the participants will reassemble as a group, and each workgroup will present its results, followed by discussion among the group as a whole.

No background is necessary for participation, and some material will be available beforehand for participants. This workshop should be useful for those who are interested in obtaining a better understanding of how IL systems work and how they approach certain problems, as well as for those who are interested in details of particular IL approaches.

Workshop Chair: Steve Helmreich