CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

** WMT 2017 Second Shared Task on Multimodal Machine Translation **

We kindly invite researchers from Computer Vision and Natural Language 
Processing to participate in this challenge which is part the of Second 
Conference on Machine Translation WMT17 shared tasks.

This challenge comprises two tasks:
* Multimodal machine translation: participants are asked to translate an 
English source sentence into German or French with the help of the image 
described by the source sentence.
* Multilingual image description: participants are asked to generate a 
description of an image in German with the help of English descriptions.

A baseline system based on Nematus is available on the evaluation campaign 
website.

The Second Conference on Machine Translation will be colocated with EMNLP 2017 
in Copenhagen, September 7-11.
Check the website for more details: 
http://www.statmt.org/wmt17/multimodal-task.html 
<http://www.statmt.org/wmt17/multimodal-task.html>

Important dates :

Release of training data …….    8 February 2017 [done]
Release of test data ………... 10 April 2017
Translation submission ……..     6 May 2017
Paper submission …………... 2 June 2017
Notification …………………... 30 June 2017
Camera-ready deadline …….       14 July 2017
Workshop ……………………. 7/8 September 2017

Loïc Barrault on behalf of the organisation committee of MMT'17

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Loïc Barrault
LIUM - University of Le Mans, France
Team Language and Speech Technology
Avenue Laënnec, 72085 Le Mans Cedex 9
http://www-lium.univ-lemans.fr/~barrault

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