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Second International Symposium on MULTILINGUAL INFORMATION PROCESSING

March 26th

10:00

Opening

Multilingual processing on Software Products

10:15-11:15

Sun multilingaul environment and its architecture based on Solaris & Java
Hiura Hideki (SunSoft Inc.)

11:15-11:45

Multilingual architecture of the Alis Tango suite
François Yergeau (Alis Technologies Inc.)

Lunch Break

13:00-14:00

Microsoft Office 97 and Unicode
Ishii Kouji (Microsoft Japan)

14:00-15:00

MacOS Internationalization
Kida Yasuo (Apple Technology)

Coffee Break

15:15--15:45

Adobe applications' mutilingual support
Nakamoto Hiroshi (Adobe)

15:45--16:30

IBM Universal Langualge Support
Steven E. Atkin and John D. Howard (IBM)

16:30--17:15

Multilingual Products from Star+Globe
Chiah Jen, Chong (Star+Globe Technologies Pte. Ltd.)

18:00

Reception (at Hotel SunRoute)

March 27th
TeX for multilingual environment
Organized by Dr. Yannis Haralambous

9:00-9:45

TeX and Multilingualism -- with an Introduction to TeX and Metafont
Fukui Rei (University of Tokyo)

9:45-10:30

Stretching the Limits of Babel, an Ever Growing Package?
Johannes Braams (TeXniek)

Coffee Break

10:45-11:30

From TeX to Omega --- New Techniques and Research Directions
John Plaice (Université Laval)

 

11:30-12:15

Language Information in Structured Documents:

Markup and Rendering --- Concepts and Problems
Frank Mittelbach (LaTeX3 project)

 

Lunch Break

 

13:45-14:30

Omega and European Languages/Writing Systems

Yannis Haralambous (Atelier Fluxus Virus)

 

14:30-15:15

Merging the Babel and CJK Package for LaTeX under Omega
Werner Lemberg (University of Vienna)

Coffee Break

15:30-16:15

The State of Ethiopian Document Processing and Typography, and

the Challenge Ahead

Abass B. Alamnehe (EthiO Systems)

 

16:15-17:00

Omega and Selected non-European Languages/Writing Systems (Arabic, Berberian, Hebrew, Khmer)
Yannis Haralambous (Atelier Fuxus Virus)

 

17:00-17:45

Open Typesetting Problems in the Classical Studies Area
Jean Kahn (Université de Rouen)

March 28th
Morning Session: Current Status (Standarization and Regional Report)

9:00-9:30

Multilingual Support in IMAP4
Mark Crispin (University of Washington)

9:30-10:30

HTML internationalization
François Yergeau (Alis Technologies Inc.)

Coffee Break

10:45-11:15

Multilingual Standarization on the Internet
Martin J. Dürst (Institut für Informatik der Universität Zürich)

11:15-12:00

Multilingual processing - Where is Hong Kong going
Qin Lu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

12:00-12:30

*Mongolian scripts and their computer processing
Ba Li Deng (Xinjiang Institute of Technology)

Afternoon Session: Non-Profit Multilingual Software: Mule and others

13:30-14:30

Benefits of Object-Orientation for Multiscript Framework Implementation
Martin J. Dürst (Institut für Informatik der Universität Zürich)

14:30-15:15

Transliteration on the Internet: The Case of Ethiopic
Daniel Yacob (Indiana University)

Coffee Break

15:30-16:10

Trial Implementation of Devanagari Script on Mule
Kawabata Taichi (University of Tokyo)

16:10-16:50

A Construction of Classical Greek Envirnment on Mule
Mizuochi Kenji (Meijigakuin University)

16:50-17:40

Merging Mule with GNU Emacs
Handa Ken'ichi (ETL)

Closing