mt special issue slt reminder reminder deadline july 1 1998 call submissions machine translation special issue spoken language translation guest editor steven krauwer utrecht university guest editorial board doug arnold university essex pascale fung hkust hong kong walter kasper dfki saarbrucken alon lavie cmu pittsburgh lori levin cmu pittsburgh hermann ney rwth aachen harold somers umist manchester 15 years ago machine translation become fashionable europe people would prepared consider seriously embarking upon spoken language translation research machine translation written text speech understanding production despite important achievements still quite far showing robustness domainindependent applications seemed clear putting three even halfway understood technologies together would premature bound fail since world changed many researchers academia industry taken challenge build systems capable translating spoken language mean problems involved speechto text textto text translation textto speech solved answer although made tremendous progress scientific technological point view many fundamental problems mt speech understanding remain unsolved yet certain degree optimism justified first clear whole general expectations mt changing past ultimate goal mt seemed provide perfect cheaper faster alternative human translator clear shift ideal fully automated high quality translation unrestricted texts practical problem overcoming language barriers encounter various situations shift focus allows us partition problem address series smaller ones solution may within reach applies spoken written language translation look spoken communication human beings different native languages often main success criterion communication whether individual utterances produced participants expressed understood without errors rarely case rather whether intended goal communication attained hotel room reservation airline information etc observation extremely important try set goals spoken translation systems realized communication takes place specific context specific goal accepted sentenceby sentence linguistically correct translation necessary condition successful multilingual communication start exploiting full potential spoken dialogues humanhuman humanmachine interaction basic structure dialogues ways control dialogue flow possibility repair workshop dedicated spoken language translation organized conjunction eacl acl 1997 madrid showed keen interest topic many acedemic industrial research teams interesting results report therefore feel time come dedicate special issue journal machine translation topic inviting highquality previously unpublished research papers addressing problems whole field spoken language translation note authors papers accepted madrid workshop especially encouraged submit papers developed workshop contributions though note intend simply reprint workshop papers original form especially interested papers addressing problems solutions typical spoken language translation opposed written language translation format submission please consult journal web pages home page http kapis www wkap nl journalhome htm 09226567 instructions authors http kapis www wkap nl kaphtml htm ifa09226567 latex style files http kapis www wkap nl jrnlstyle htm 09226567 articles submitted directly publishers either email ellen klink wkap nl subject header submission coat speech special issue hardcopy either following addresses machine translation editorial office machine translation editorial office kluwer academic publishers kluwer academic publishers p box 990 p box 230 3300 az dordrecht accord 02018023 netherlands u journal typeset using latex preferred medium submission articles electronic format latex source using kluwer style file gzipped postscript submitting hardcopy four copies paper required length papers approximately 1020 pages using kluwer style file around 20k words authors requested send copy abstract 200 words guest editor steven krauwer let ruu nl hardcopy steven krauwer utrecht institute linguistics ots trans 10 3512 jk utrecht netherlands submission deadline submissions abstracts received july 1 1998 papers reviewed least three members editorial board aiming publication issue 3 4 volume 13 autumn winter 1998