In this issue…

A Call For Action • Colin Brace, Editor and Publisher, The Language Industry Monitor
Getting Ready for the Japanese Market • Jan Pfefferkorn, Director, Language Automation Inc.
Design of a Translation Tool for Oracle Products • Kevin Wharton, Oracle Corporation
LISA in Heidelberg not to be Missed!
LOGOS Corporation reorganizes with new management team and financing
LISA Mission Statement
LISA’s Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
The LISA Forum (31 January - 1 February, 1994)
ELSNET Survey of Language Engineering Organisations in Central and Eastern Europe and New Independent States LRE Project 62-200
Multilingual Text Tools and Corpora (MULTEXT)
Document Alignment Techniques and Consistency Checking
Merry Christmas to All, and to All a Good Translation

LISA in Heidelberg not to be Missed!

Evaluation and Implementation of CAT in the Spotlight

This year's LISA Annual Meeting will be held in Heidelberg, 21-22 April, and it is the one LISA event that no member should miss. It will build upon the excellent start we made at our first Annual Meeting last year in Dublin by offering another timely series of top-notch speakers and discussion panels investigating automated language processing technologies and issues related to localization productivity. The theme of the Heidelberg event will be Evaluation and Implementation of Computer (-Aided) Translation within the Industrial Environment, with an emphasis on real-world experiences and case studies. Exhibitors will include today's leading vendors of localization, translation, and document management applications. All in all, Heidelberg promises to be a unique event.

Feature Topics Include

Machine Translation Systems and CAT tools
User analysis and application requirements
Evaluating MT Systems for your Company
How to Plan Translation Workstation Investment Strategies
Localization Tools: Proprietary and Commercial
New Approaches to Machine Translation

The event is being co-hosted by IBM Germany's Language Technology Market Introduction Division in Heidelberg. We have already pre-registered 7 exhibitors and over 30 participants. Alpnet's Translation Support System, Trados' Translators Workbench, Bull ILO's Localization Workstation, LOGOS' Translation System, SITE - Eurolang, the STAR-TRANSIT system and the IBM Translation Manager/2 are among the products scheduled to be exhibited.

You are advised to register as soon as possible by completing the accompanying Meeting Confirmation Form and faxing it to LISA Administration. Note: the maximum allocation is 80 delegates.

If you would like to exhibit your product or join one of the speaker panels, contact LISA Administration or send mail to MANOBILE@DIVSUN.UNIGE.CH