The 4th Workshop on Multi-word Units in Machine Translation and Translation
Technology (MUMTTT 2019)Malaga, 27 September 2019
In conjunction with EUROPHRAS 2019 – International Conference “Computational
and Corpus-basedPhraseology: Recent advances and interdisciplinary
approaches”First Call for PapersFollowing the success of the three previous
editions of the workshop on Multi-word Units in Machine Translation and
Translation Technology (MUMTTT) we are announcing the fourth edition to be held
in conjunction with the International Conference “Computational and
Corpus-based Phraseology’ (Europhras’2019)” which is jointly organised by the
European Association for Phraseology EUROPHRAS, the University of Malaga
(Research Group in Lexicography and Translation), the University of
Wolverhampton (Research Group in Computational Linguistics) and the Association
for Computational Linguistics – Bulgaria.The MUMTTT workshop will be held on
the last day of the Europhras’2019 conference, namely on 27th September 2019.
It will provide a forum for researchers and practitioners in the fields of
(Computational) Linguistics, (Computational) Phraseology, Translation Studies
and Translation Technology to discuss recent advances in the area of multi-word
unit processing and to coordinate research efforts across disciplines in order
to improve the integration of multi-word units in machine translation and
translation technology tools.Multi-word units are word combinations which range
from compounds such as ‘credit card’ to idiomatic expressions such as “’it is
raining cats and dogs’ and are acknowledged as one of the major challenges in
natural language processing (NLP), because of their lexical, syntactic,
semantic, pragmatic and/or statistical idiosyncracies.In spite of the relative
progress achieved in translation technology with the adoption of neural
approaches and in the processing for particular types of units such as
verb-particle constructions, the identification, interpretation and translation
of multi-word units in general still represent open challenges, both from a
theoretical and a practical point of view. The idiosyncratic morpho-syntactic,
semantic and translational properties of multi-word units pose many obstacles
even to human translators, mainly because of intrinsic ambiguities, structural
and lexical asymmetries between languages, and, finally, cultural
differences.In recent years, growing attention has been paid to integrating
multi-word units (MWUs) in machine translation and translation technology
tools, as it has been acknowledged that it is not possible to create large
scale language solutions without properly handling MWUs of all types. As a
matter of fact, researchers are now addressing the problems posed by MWU
processing and translation using different formalisms and techniques, such as
automatic recognition of MWUs in a monolingual or bilingual setting; alignment
and paraphrasing techniques; development and use of (handcrafted) monolingual
and bilingual language resources; creation of annotated monolingual and
parallel corpora, development of strategies for handling syntactically flexible
units in language analysis and translation modules, development of evaluation
projects. The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers and
practitioners working on MWU processing from various perspectives, in order to
enable cross-fertilisation and foster the creation of innovative solutions that
can only arise from interdisciplinary collaborations. In particular, the
workshop welcomes interactions between NLP researchers working on the
computational treatment of multi-word units, experts in (computational)
phraseology working on challenging topics of their discipline, as well as
translation practitioners, to the benefit of applying their latest results to
advance the state of the art in MWU processing.Topics of InterestThe MUMTTT
2019 workshop invites the submission of papers reporting on original and
unpublished research on topics related to MWU processing in machine translation
and translation technology, including:Lexical, syntactic, semantic and
translational aspects in MWU representationTheoretical approaches to MWUs
(e.g., collostructional analysis of MWU, cognitive approaches to processing
MWUs, etc.)Development of multilingual MWU resourcesIdentification and
acquisition of MWUs and variantsLearning semantic information about MWUs from
monolingual, parallel or comparable corporaDevelopment and use of MWU resources
in machine translation and translation technologyDevelopment of corpora for the
extraction and translation of MWUsCompilation of resources for the extraction
and translation of multiword unitsCreation of MWU-annotated corpora with a
focus on translation aspectsParaphrasing of MWUs applied to the improvement of
machine translationMWUs and word alignment techniquesMWUs in machine
translationMUWs in translation memory systemsMUWs in term extractionMWU-centred
machine translation evaluationEvaluation of MWU translationMWUs in CAT
toolsMultilingualism and MWU processingPsycholinguistic studies of MWU
processing in a bilingual setting. Submission GuidelinesSubmissions must
consist of full-text papers and should not exceed 7 pages excluding
references.A selection of papers will be invited to submit an extended version
for the second volume of Multiword Units in Machine Translation and Translation
Technology to be published by John Benjamins by the end of 2019.They must be
formatted according to the ACL 2017 style guidelines available both for Word
and LaTeX text processor. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three
programme committee members. Accepted papers will be presented orally or as
posters, as determined by the programme committee. There will be no distinction
in the workshop proceedings between papers presented orally or as posters. The
proceedings will be published both as e-proceedings with ISSN and as an
electronic volume with ISBN and will be made available at the time of the
conference. The submissions will be maintained by conference management
software. Details about the submission page will be provided in the second call
for papers.Important DatesDeadline for paper submission: 31 May 2019Acceptance
notification: 19 July 2019Final version: 1 September 2019MUMTTT 2019 workshop:
27 September 2019Workshop invited speakersRodolfos Maslias (Head of
Terminology Coordination Unit at the European Parliament)Aline Villavicencio
(Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul and University of Essex)
Workshop ChairsJohanna Monti, Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”,
ItalyGloria Corpas Pastor, Universidad de Màlaga, SpainRuslan Mitkov,
University of Wolverhampton, United KingdomProgramme CommitteeGiuseppe Attardi,
University of PisaVerginica Barbu Mititelu, Romanian Academy Research Institute
for Artificial Intelligence, RomaniaJean Pierre Colson, Université Catholique
de LouvainMatthieu Constant, Université de LorraineAntoine Doucet, University
of La RochelleMarcello Federico, AmazonThomas François, Université Catholique
de LouvainFederico Gaspari, University for Foreigners “Dante Alighieri”Philipp
Koehn, The Johns Hopkins UniversityTatjana Gornostaja, TildeAlessandro Lenci,
University of PisaMaria Pia di Buono, TakeLab – Faculty of Electrical
Engineering and Computing – University of Zagreb, CroatiaRodolfos Maslias,
Terminology Coordination Unit at the European ParliamentMichael Oakes,
University of WolverhamptonCarla Parra Escartín, ADAPT Centre, Dublin City
UniversityPavel Pecina, Charles UniversityÉric Poirier, Université du Québec à
Trois-RivièresCarlos Ramisch, Aix Marseille UniversityMichael Rosner,
University of MaltaFederico Sangati, University of Naples “L’Orientale”Agata
Savary, Université François Rabelais ToursGerold Schneider, University of
ZurichMax Silberztein, Université de Franche-ComtéKathrin Steyer, Institut für
Deutsche Sprache, MannheimAmalia Todirascu, LILPA, Université de
StrasbourgBeata Trawinski, Institut für Deutsche Sprache, MannheimMarco Turchi,
FBKAgnes Tutin, Université Grenoble 3, LIDILEMAline Villavicencio, Federal
University of Rio Grande do SulVeronika Vincze, Hungarian Academy of
SciencesMartin Volk, University of Zurich
Further informationFor further information, please contact Ms. Annalisa Raffone
from the workshop Organising Committee at mumttt2...@gmail.com
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