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Asunto: [Corpora-List] Call for Participation - Similar Language
Translation Task at WMT 2019
Fecha: 2019-02-13 13:10
De: "Zampieri, Marcos" <m.zampi...@wlv.ac.uk>
Destinatario: "corp...@uib.no" <corp...@uib.no>
Call for Participation
Similar Language Translation Task at WMT 2019 (co-located with ACL 2019)
URL: http://www.statmt.org/wmt19/similar.html
The training/dev sets will be available in the end of February and the
test data will be released on April 10 2019.
Please visit the website for more information.
Task Description
Within the MT and NLP communities, English is by far the most
resource-rich language. MT systems are most often trained to translate
texts from and to English or they use English as a pivot language to
translate between resource-poorer languages. The interest in English is
reflected, for example, in the WMT translation tasks (e.g. News,
Biomedical) which have always included language pairs in which texts are
translated to and/or from English.
With the widespread use of MT technology, there is more and more
interest in training systems to translate between languages other than
English. One evidence of this is the need of directly translating
between pairs of similar languages. The main challenge here is how to
take advantage of the similarity between languages to overcome the
limitation given the low amount of available parallel data to produce an
accurate output.
Given the interest of the community in this topic we organize, for the
first time at WMT, a shared task on "Similar Language Translation" to
evaluate the performance of state-of-the-art translation systems on
translating between pairs of languages from the same language family. We
provide participants with training and testing data from three language
pairs: Spanish - Portuguese (Romance languages), Czech - Polish (Slavic
languages), and Hindi - Nepali (Indo-Aryan languages). Evaluation will
be carried out using automatic evaluation metrics and human evaluation.
Language Pairs
- Czech - Polish (Slavic languages)
- Hindi - Nepali (Indo-Aryan languages)
- Spanish - Portuguese (Romance languages)
Organizers
Marta Costa-jussà , Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Shervin Malmasi, Harvard Medical School
Santanu Pal, Saarland University
Marcos Zampieri, University of Wolverhampton
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Dr. Marcos Zampieri
Research Group in Computational Linguistics
University of Wolverhampton, UK
http://pers-www.wlv.ac.uk/~u22984/
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