The 4th Workshop on Multi-word Units in Machine Translation and Translation
Technology (MUMTTT 2019)Malaga, 27 September
2019http://www.lexytrad.es/europhras2019/mumttt-2019-2/In conjunction with
EUROPHRAS 2019 International Conference Computational and Corpus-based
Phraseology: Recent advances and interdisciplinary approachesSecond 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
(Europhras2019) 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 Europhras2019
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 representation-
Theoretical approaches to MWUs (e.g., collostructional analysis of MWU,
cognitive approaches to processing MWUs, etc.)- Development of multilingual MWU
resources- Identification and acquisition of MWUs and variants- Learning
semantic information about MWUs from monolingual, parallel or comparable
corpora- Development and use of MWU resources in machine translation and
translation technology- Development of corpora for the extraction and
translation of MWUs- Compilation of resources for the extraction and
translation of multiword units- Creation of MWU-annotated corpora with a focus
on translation aspects- Paraphrasing of MWUs applied to the improvement of
machine translation- MWUs and word alignment techniques- MWUs in machine
translation- MWUs in translation memory systems- MWUs in term extraction-
MWU-centred machine translation evaluation- Evaluation of MWU translation- MWUs
in CAT tools- Multilingualism and MWU processing- Psycholinguistic studies of
MWU processing in a bilingual setting.Submission and PublicationSubmissions
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.All submissions must be made online using the Softconf START
conference management system: https://www.softconf.com/j/mumttt2019.Authors
of accepted papers will receive further instructions on how to produce
camera-ready versions of their papers for inclusion in the
proceedings.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 the 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
LOrientale, 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 LorraineMaria Pia di
Buono, TakeLab Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing University
of Zagreb, CroatiaAntoine Doucet, University of La RochelleMarcello Federico,
AmazonThomas François, Université Catholique de LouvainFederico Gaspari,
University for Foreigners Dante AlighieriTatjana Gornostaja, TildePhilipp
Koehn, The Johns Hopkins UniversityAlessandro Lenci, University of PisaRodolfos
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 LOrientaleAgata
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 ZurichFurther informationFor further
information, please contact Ms. Annalisa Raffone from the workshop Organising
Committee at mumttt2...@gmail.com
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