MT folks,
NIST is pleased to announce the next NIST Open Machine Translation
Evaluation, MT09.
The MT09 Evaluation Plan is now available:
http://www.nist.gov/speech/tests/mt/2009/MT09_EvalPlan.pdf.
Evaluation Highlights:
Schedule:
- Registration deadline: May 14, 2009
- Evaluation period: June 8-12, 2009
- Workshop: August 31 - September 1, 2009 (co-located with MT Summit XII
in Ottawa, Canada)
Tasks include text-to-text translation for the following language pairs:
- Arabic-to-English (Current and Progress test)
- Chinese-to-English (Progress test)
- Urdu-to-English (Current test)
New system tracks:
- To distinguish single system and system combination submissions
Visit the NIST Open MT09 web site for more information:
http://www.nist.gov/speech/tests/mt/2009
<http://www.nist.gov/speech/tests/mt/2009>.
Also, please note that while registration for MT09 is now open, the
license agreement that will allow you to receive training and
development data for MT09 purposes from the LDC will not be available
for another couple of weeks. We will send a notification to this
mailing list once the agreement becomes available.
Please e-mail [email protected] for comments or questions.
Thank you,
Kay / NIST Open MT Team.
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Kay Peterson
NIST ITL IAD Multimodal Information Group
(+1) 301-975-2960 Phone
(+1) 301-670-0939 Fax
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