2ndCall for Papers, Presentations, Workshops, and Tutorials AMTA 2020 - VIRTUAL
The14th biennial conference of the Association for Machine Translation in theAmericas. October 6-10 https://amtaweb.org The 14th biennial conference of theAssociation for Machine Translation in the Americas hasbeen rescheduled to OCTOBER 6-10 and will be held as a virtualconference using Microsoft Teams, a powerful,enterprise collaboration platform. It was previously scheduled from September 8-12 in Orlando,Florida. The submission deadline for all papers andpresentations has now been extended two months in order to provide time torework submissions, and in some cases, to reconsider making submissions duringwhat continues to be a period of great uncertainty. The organizing committee will do everythingpossible to maximize virtual interactions between conference attendees withinall the contexts normally provided by a physical conference. We expect to havean expanded virtual audience of experts and practitioners from research,industry, and academia, including many students who might normally not be ableto attend. For academic and commercial researchers, AMTA2020 provides a unique opportunity to share the latest results withcolleagues as well as understand real-world user requirements. Business andgovernment participants will benefit from updates on leading-edge R&D inMachine Translation and have a chance to present and discuss their use cases. The virtualconference will continue to feature three main tracks – Research, Commercial,and Government, each dedicated to a respective area in machine translationresearch, commercial application, and government use. There will be invitedtalks from these expert keynote speakers: ColinCherry (Google Research) Mona Diab (George WashingtonUniversity) ChrisWendt (Microsoft Research) DanielleSilverman (National Virtual Translation Center) Eric Paquin (Translators without Borders) Andy Way (ADAPT Centre, Dublin CityUniversity) A special Student Research Workshop willprovide students an opportunity to present their work during a session of themain conference. Relevant and engaging tutorials and workshops will also beheld on the first and last days of the conference. Thefollowing dates have been updated to provide for the new virtual format and theyapply to each of the tracks listed below: · Submission deadline: Wednesday,1 July 2020 · Notification of acceptance: Monday,3 August 2020 · Final “camera-ready” versions: Monday, 31August 2020 · Main conference: 6-10 October2020 Thesubmission and “camera-ready” deadline time zone is "Anywhere onEarth" (UTC–12). Before the conference, the organizing committee willwork with each presenter to ensure readiness for presenting in the virtualenvironment. By default, we expect presenters to give live presentations with anopportunity for questions and discussion at the end of each presentation. Incertain cases, however, the committee may determine that pre-recording thepresentation is a preferable option to ensure its quality. More information on acceptable modes ofpresentation will be forthcoming. We look forward to “seeing” you at AMTA 2020 -VIRTUAL! SteveRichardson AMTA President Call for MT Research Papers Contact:Michael Denkowski, Christian Federmann (mtresearch...@amtaweb.org) AMTA solicits original research papers that willadvance the field of Machine Translation. In addition to regular contributions,we are also seeking extended abstracts that report in-progress work or novelapplications of technology to real scenarios. Submissions must be unpublishedand in English. We seek submissions across the entire spectrumof MT-related research, but with a particular focus on AMTA’s strength: theclose interaction between researchers and practitioners who are looking toapply the latest MT technology to their tasks. We particularly encouragesubmissions that are oriented towards building robust and practical systems,including user-in-the-loop translation systems, adaptation to particulardomains or usage scenarios, and utilization of available resources inproduction scenarios. Submission instructions: Full papers must not exceed 12 (twelve) pagesplus 2 (two) pages for references, and must be formatted according to the AMTAstyle guide: PDFversion / LaTeXversion / MSWord version. These papers will be rigorouslyreviewed for novelty and impact, and they will be published in the AMTAproceedings. They will be presented at the conference as either oralpresentations or posters. We will also be accepting submissions ofextended abstracts of no more than 6 (six) pages plus 2 (two) pages forreferences. These abstracts can be used to report in-progress or late-breakingresearch results, analyses of the effects of applying research technology topractical application scenarios, or descriptions of demos appearing at theconference. Abstract submissions are further divided into two subcategories: - Original contributions, which will be included in the conference proceedings upon acceptance. - Non-archival submissions, which will not appear in the proceedings, but will still be presented at the conference. Both types of abstracts will be double-blindreviewed for informativeness, correctness and clarity. They will be presentedat the conference as posters. Abstracts should be anonymized, and should put“This is a submission to the [original / non-archival] extended abstracttrack.” at the end of the abstract field in the START submission page (it doesnot need to be noted in the paper itself). Submitted papers must be in PDF. To allow forblind reviewing, please do not include author names and affiliations within thepaper, and avoid obvious self-references. Papers must be submitted to the STARTsystem (https://www.softconf.com/amta2020/papers/) by 11:59 pm (UTC-12), Wednesday, 1 July 2020. Topics of interest include but are not limitedto: - Advances in various MT paradigms: data-driven, rule-based, and hybrids - MT applications and embedding: translation/localization aids, speech-to-speech, speech-to-text, OCR, MT for communication (chats, blogs, social networks), multilingual applications, etc. - Technologies for MT deployment: quality estimation and domain adaptation - MT in special settings: low resources, massive resources, high volume, low computing resources - Human factors in MT and user interfaces for MT - Linguistic resources for MT: dictionaries, terminology banks, corpora - MT evaluation techniques and evaluation results - Empirical studies on translation data Multiple submissions: Full papers and extended abstracts that willappear in the AMTA proceedings must represent new work that has not beenpreviously published (pre-prints posted online on servers such as arXiv do notcount as published papers, and thus are allowed to be submitted). It is theresponsibility of the author(s) to inform the program chairs of any potentialproblem with respect to this requirement. Authors submitting a similar paperboth to AMTA and another conference or workshop must inform the program chairsby email (mtresearch...@amtaweb.org), specifying to which other conference or workshop they aresubmitting their work. If a paper is accepted at both AMTA and anotherconference, then to appear at AMTA it can either be presented at AMTA as a fullpaper and withdrawn from the other conference, or it can be withdrawn from theAMTA proceedings, but still presented at AMTA as a non-archival extendedabstract. Full papers presented at the conference and included in theproceedings will also be hosted on the ACL Anthology. Call forStudent MT Research Papers Contact:Matt Post (studentworks...@amtaweb.org) AMTA will hold its first StudentResearch Workshop together with the main conference in 2020 and invitessubmissions from students at all stages of their education. The purpose of the StudentResearch Workshop is to provide students with a special opportunity to presenttheir work and receive focused, intentional feedback from international expertsin the field of machine translation. Accepted work will have at least oneexperienced member of the government, industry, and/or academia with knowledgein the student’s particular research area. These senior members will preparecomments and questions ahead of time and will work with the student to providethem with an outside perspective on their work’s impact and potential. We invite two types ofsubmissions: · Research papers mustdescribe original, unpublished work, and follow the submission criteriadescribed in the AMTA 2020 Call for MT Research Papers above. They may includemultiple authors, but the primary and first author must be a student. Thesepapers will be blindly reviewed and evaluated and then presented along withmain conference papers. They will be published in the AMTA Student ResearchWorkshop volume of the conference proceedings and hosted on the ACLAnthology. · Research proposals maycontain previously published work. They should describe a proposed researchtrajectory, ideally (but optionally) rooted in the student’s existing work thatis either already completed or in-progress. Research proposals must have only asingle author. Submissions: All submitted papers must be inPDF. Papers must be submitted to the START system at https://www.softconf.com/amta2020/srw/ by 11:59 pm (UTC-12), Wednesday, 1 July 2020. For Research Papers pleasefollow the submission guidelines found in the Call for MT Research Papers,noting the alternate submission URL above. Research Proposals shouldbe no longer than 5 (five) pages (not counting references, which have no pagelimit). Another page will be allowed for accepted papers. Call for Presentations: Commercial MT Users and Translators: Contact:Janice Campbell, Dmitriy Genzel (commercialmtus...@amtaweb.org) TheCommercial MT Users and Translators track will focus on how MT helpscorporations, NGOs, Language Service Providers, and professional translatorsdeliver products and services more effectively. Submissions should report onthe use of MT and/or related tools, processes and technologies, to supportbusiness goals and serve customer needs in commercial settings. We welcomepresentations from MT technology and service providers, but their presentationsshould not constitute a “sales pitch;” the focus should be on innovative MTtechnology, processes, and principles rather than on a particular product oroffering. Theme – Applying Innovation to Business Challenges Producingever-increasing volumes of multilingual content with constrained budgets hasbecome a mantra for businesses entering global markets. These challenges arebeing met through the adoption of innovative technologies and tools, theautomation of processes and workflows, and the application of artificialintelligence approaches. Themachine translation technology landscape is dotted with innovations intranslation productivity tools, advancements in neural networks, and novelapproaches to producing and delivering content to international audiences. Thegoal of the commercial track is to provide a broad spectrum of machinetranslation applications to achieve the rapid delivery of multilingual contentwithin the constraints of time, cost, scope and quality. Topics of interest may include, but are not limited to, thefollowing: · Making the business case for adopting MT to drive businessrequirements, expand markets and engage with customers. · Practical applications for using raw (aka stock) MT no humanintervention, such as post editing. · Novel approaches to using MT in a commercial environment. · Advances in adaptive and interactive MT technologies. · Process and criteria for migrating to Neural MT from othersystems, such as Statistical MT. · Using MT for leveraging between similar languages, such asSimplified and Traditional Chinese, Russian and Ukrainian, Spanish and Catalan;and language variants such as US to UK English, Brazilian to ContinentalPortuguese. · MT quality and confidence scoring, tools, and metrics that supportbusiness KPIs. · Productivity measures and quality frameworks that enhance businessprocesses and translation workflows. · TM cleanup and corpus preparation techniques for engine training. · Approaches and challenges to building your own MT engines. · Quality vs. quantity and fit for purpose when choosing corpora forcustomizing engines (e.g. Translation Memories, terminology/glossaries, Do NotTranslate lists). · MT Post Editing challenges. · New business applications for MT; for example, speech to speech,speech to text, videos, search and indexing applications, emergency responseand disaster management, social media, chatbots. · API challenges such as tag handling and/or reordering. · Open Standards for machine translation · Overview and comparisons of open source MT tools and services. · Artificial Intelligence approaches to machine translationincluding Natural Language Processing or Machine Learning applications toenhance the translation process (e.g. information extraction and retrieval,text categorization, Named Entity Recognition, POS tagging, etc.). · Approaches and challenges to using MT for low-resource orlong-tail languages. · Advances in domain adaptation. · Handling potentially offensive, illegal or profane language in MToutput. Whatto submit Pleasesubmit a 250 to 500-word abstract describing the topic of your presentation by11:59 pm (UTC-12), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 to the Commercial MT UsersChairs (commercialmtus...@amtaweb.org).Address any questions to this email address. Presentations will describe how MTservices, as well as complementary systems, technologies, tools and processesaddress specific business challenges. Submissions should not contain commercialsolicitations of specific tools. If you have original software that you would liketo show, you may also consider submitting a proposal to Exhibitions (moreinformation coming soon). Publication Please indicate whether you intend to submit your presentation forpublication in the AMTA 2020 Conference Proceedings. Although it is not a requirement,we strongly encourage you to make your presentation available in theProceedings so that others can learn from your experiences. If you agree tohave your presentation published in the Proceedings, you should format itaccording to the submission guidelines in the AMTA 2020 Call for MT Research Papersabove. However, slide decks are also acceptable. Only abstracts are required tobe submitted by the initial submission date, however, only papers and slidedecks will be accepted by the final camera-ready date for publication in theProceedings. Call for Presentations: Governmentand Military MT Stakeholders Contact:Ben Huyck (govtmtus...@amtaweb.org) Weinvite you to submit a proposal to speak at AMTA 2020 about your insights onresearch, development and operational use of MT and MT-related technologies ingovernment and military settings. We especially encourage perspectives thatchallenge the broader MT community, including issues with implementing andutilizing MT, whether on the technical side, the human side, or both. Topics of interest: 1. MT as an operationaltool for translation, analysis, information discovery. 2. MT for “non-standard”language in chats, blogs and social networks. 3. Evaluation of MTincluding estimation of ROI and human factors. 4. MT research anddevelopment in government and military settings. 5. Integration of MT intobroader workflow, including case studies. 6. Linguistic resources forMT, especially those hard to find or create. 7. Neural MT opportunitiesand challenges. 8. MT in HumanitarianAssistance / Disaster Relief contexts. 9. Challenges,opportunities and insights into MT needs for the government and military. Submissions: Initial submissions should be abstracts 250-500 words in length.The following should accompany each abstract submission: 1. Presentation Title 2. Presenter Name 3. RepresentingOrganization 4. Email Address 5. Phone Number Please email your abstract to the Government/Military MTStakeholders Chair (govtmtus...@amtaweb.org) by 11:59PM (UTC-12), Wednesday,1 July 2020. Ifyou have original software that you would like to show, you may also considersubmitting a proposal to Exhibitions (more information coming soon). Publication While not mandatory, presenters are strongly encouraged to havetheir submissions published in the AMTA 2020 Proceedings, producing papers inaccordance with the submission guidelines in the AMTA 2020 Call for MT ResearchPapers above. Slide decks may also be accepted. While only abstracts arerequired to be submitted by the initial submission date, only papers or slidedecks will be accepted by the final camera-ready date for publication in theProceedings. Call for Proposals for Workshopsand Tutorials Contact: Jay Marciano (tutori...@amtaweb.org or worksh...@amtaweb.org) The organizing committee of AMTA 2020 is seeking proposals forworkshops and tutorials on all topics related to MT research, development,application, and evaluation. Our goal is to have a program of workshops andtutorials that appeals to the various constituents of AMTA (researchers,developers, commercial users, and language professionals). Therefore we welcomenot only proposals on deeply technical research and development topics but alsoon, for instance, the collection and curation of training data, best practicesin training MT systems, human/computer interaction among translators,interpreters, and other users of MT output, and the evolving role oftranslation automation in the commercial translation production pipeline. Tutorials and Workshops will be held on Tuesday, 6 October 2020,immediately preceding the main conference, and Saturday, 10 October 2020,immediately following the main conference. All tutorial presenters and workshopchairs will receive training on the conference’s virtual meeting platform. Tutorials Tutorials are a forum for experts in MT and MT-related areas todeliver concentrated training on a topic of interest in half-day teachingsessions. Tutorials help conference participants enrich their understanding of particulartechnical, applied, and business matters surrounding research, development anduse of MT and associated technologies, or, in the case of tutorials designedfor newcomers, provide background information that facilitates greaterunderstanding of the overall conference program. Because of the unusual circumstances of this conference, everyeffort will be made to accept or reject (with reason) tutorial proposals assoon as possible after they are received by the organizing committee. Proposals for tutorials should be submitted by 11:59 pm (UTC-12),Wednesday, 1 July 2020, to tutori...@amtaweb.org and include: · The title · a 250-500 word description of the proposed content · any technical requirements you may have · a scanned signed copy of the AMTA Tutorial Policy and LeaderAgreement Form Workshops AMTA workshops are intended to provide the opportunity forMT-related communities of interest to spend focused time together advancing thestate of thinking or the state of practice in their area of interest or endeavor.Workshops are generally scheduled as a full-day event. Because of the unusual circumstances of this conference, everyeffort will be made to accept or reject (with reason) workshop proposals assoon as possible after they are received by the organizing committee. Workshop proposals should be submitted by 11:59 pm (UTC-12),Wednesday, 1 July 2020, to worksh...@amtaweb.org and include: · the title · a 250-500 word description of the proposed content · whether this is an ongoing or new workshop · the expected number of participants · dates for important milestones (call for papers, recruitment ofspeakers, etc.) · any technical requirements you may have · a scanned signed copy of the AMTA Workshop Policy and LeaderAgreement Form. We look forward to receiving your proposals!
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