Call for proposals

CLOSED.

2020 Instructions for Publication

We’ll keep it simple this year:

Full text to be submitted no later than 20 November
Maximum length: 5,000 words (paper), 2,500 words (short talk or poster)
Plain MS-Word, OpenOffice or LibreOffice file
Footnotes at the end of the document (i.e. Endnotes)
No pagination, headers or footers
Graphics/tables/images and all non-text in general attached as separate files, allowing resizing and repositioning
References/bibliography clearly separated on a new page (do not count within the 5000/2500 word limits)
Absolute URLs with date they were last consulted
No PDFs

Send files to: jmv (at) asling.org

Keynote speaker

Invited speaker

Martin Benjamin

Director Kamusi.org at EPFL
in Lausanne
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Joanna Drugan

Professor of Translation
University of East Anglia
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The TC conference takes the form of peer-reviewed presentations and posters and features panel discussions and workshops.

Conference topics

Contributions are invited on any topic related to the technologies used in translation and interpreting, including, but not limited to translation environment and interpreting tools:

Translation Memory software
Terminology Management systems
Machine Translation solutions
Multilingual Corpora
Quality Assessment and Control, as well as
Interoperability
Subtitling
Natural Language Processing for translation and interpreting
Localisation, and
Translation Workflow and Management.

Submissions

AsLing invites proposals for original unpublished papers and posters, as well as workshop and discussion panel proposals. Papers and posters may report on research, commercial translation and interpretation products or user experience, and should fit in one of the following four categories:

Proposal for a presentation at the conference and a paper for publication in the conference Proceedings. Papers of accepted proposals will be expected to adhere to the academic style guidelines, and will be published in the conference Proceedings with an assigned ISBN.
Proposals for a talk at the conference about new and innovative procedures and concepts, and on all aspects of user experiences with new and evolving translation and interpretation technologies. If accepted, such a proposal may optionally be accompanied by a paper for publication in the conference Proceedings. Authors will have the choice of submitting a paper following the academic style guidelines, or one expressing themselves more freely.
Proposals reporting original unpublished ideas or presenting an ongoing, evolving project may be submitted as a “Poster“. Note, though, that while judged against “poster” criteria, should it be accepted, the author will be expected to make a short presentation to a room full of conference participants, followed by a short Question & Answer session, not in the form of a large-format wall-mounted paper poster; the latter are not permitted at the venue. Subsequent “Poster” papers will be expected to adhere to the academic style guidelines, albeit will be shorter than full papers.
If you wish to hold a Workshop related to any of the above, please submit your proposal as a Workshop proposal, outlining what you wish to provide your workshop participants and which outcomes you expect as the result of your workshop, for participants as well as for you. While workshop authors may also submit a formal paper ahead of the conference, for inclusion in the conference Proceedings, AsLing will invite workshop moderators to provide a paper after the conference outlining what transpired during the workshop. Such post facto papers will be made accessible on the AsLing conference website.

Papers and posters may report on research, commercial translation and interpretation products or user experiences. Workshop reports should describe the outcome of what was achieved.

Papers (academic and non-academic)

Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract (maximum of 750 words) of the paper they would like to present, together with a short 200-word abstract. A short biography and photos of all authors is also requested.

Although the extended abstract is limited to 750 words (longer papers will NOT be considered), it should provide sufficient information to allow evaluation of the submission by the programme committee.

The short abstracts, bios and photos of accepted papers will be used in the online programme and event advertising.

Camera-ready versions of the accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings with an assigned ISBN number, subject to the presenter having duly registered for the conference. Their length should not exceed 5,000 words.

Posters

Proposers are invited to submit an extended abstract of their poster not exceeding 750 words, together with a short 200-word version along with a short biography and photos of all authors for dissemination purposes. Camera-ready versions of the accepted posters will be published in the conference e-proceedings with an assigned ISBN number, subject to the presenter having duly registered for the conference. Their length should not exceed 2,000 words.

Workshops

Workshop proposals are limited to 750 words. They should describe the topic/goal of the workshop and provide an outline of how the proposed workshop will be structured. Proposers should also submit a 200-word version as well as a short biography and photos of all authors and moderators for dissemination purposes.

Formatting

The Conference website will provide formatting guidelines in the form of Word and LaTeX stylesheets. Academic papers and posters will be expected to adhere strictly to these guidelines. Papers relating to user experiences or other non-academic presentations will be permitted greater freedom. As papers on workshops will only be completed after the end of the conference, details of their format will be worked out with the moderators later in the year.

Submission procedure

Proposals should be submitted via the START conference submission system: Closed. Link removed. The system provides distinct submission pages for the following categories of submissions:
o Regular submission
o Non-academic submission
o Poster or short presentation
o Workshop

Presenters who cannot use START system, or prefer not to do so, have the option to submit their proposals and the requested documents (200 words short abstract, 750 words extended abstract, short biography and photo) directly by emailing submissions(at)asling.org.

Schedule (until further notice)

15 July 2020 ‘extended from 15 June) – Deadline for abstracts and papers and workshops proposals
1 August 2020 – All authors notified of decision
20 September 2020 – Deadline for submissions to students special session
30 September 2020 – All authors (special session for students) notified of acceptance decision
5 November 2020 – All authors to submit their presentation materials (e.g. MS PowerPoint, OpenOffice, LibreOffice Impress,…)
18-19-20 November 2020 – Conference takes place
20 November 2020 – All authors who want their presentation published to submit the final text

2020 Instructions for Publication

We’ll keep it simple this year:

Full text to be submitted no later than 20 November
Maximum length: 5,000 words (paper), 2,500 words (short talk or poster)
Plain MS-Word, OpenOffice or LibreOffice file
Footnotes at the end of the document (i.e. Endnotes)
No pagination, headers or footers
Graphics/tables/images and all non-text in general attached as separate files, allowing resizing and repositioning
References/bibliography clearly separated on a new page (do not count within the 5000/2500 word limits)
Absolute URLs with date they were last consulted
No PDFs

Send files to: jmv (at) asling.org