*Reminder*! Deadline December 31, 23:59 CET.?
EAMT Best Thesis Award 2012
The European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT,
http://www.eamt.org) is an organization that serves the growing
community of people interested in MT and translation tools, including
users, developers, and researchers of this increasingly viable technology.
The EAMT invites entries for its fourth EAMT Best Thesis Award for a PhD
or equivalent thesis on a topic related to machine translation.
Eligibility
Current members of the EAMT who
1. have paid their 2012 dues before June 30, 23:59 CET,
2. have submitted a PhD (or equivalent) thesis on a relevant topic in
an European, Northern African[1] or Middle Eastern[2] institution
within calendar year 2012,
3. have successfully obtained the PhD or equivalent degree, and
4. have not previously won a similar award,
are invited to submit their theses to the EAMT for consideration.
Additionally, they will only be entitled to receive the award if they
have renewed their EAMT membership before March 31, 2013.
Panel
The submissions will be judged by a panel of experts who are EAMT
members and are appointed by the Executive Committee of the EAMT.
Selection criteria
Each thesis will be judged according to how challenging the problem was,
to how relevant the results are for machine translation as a field, and
to the strength of their impact in terms of scientific publications.
Scope
The scope of the thesis need not be confined to a technical area, and
applications are also invited from students who carried out their
research into commercial and management aspects of machine translation.
Possible areas of research might include:
1. development of machine translation or advanced computer-assisted
translation systems: software and resources
2. machine translation for less-resourced languages
3. the use of these systems in professional environments (freelance
translators, translation agencies, localisation, etc.)
4. the increasing impact of machine translation on non-professional
Internet users and its impact in communications, social networking,
etc.
5. machine translation and post-editing
6. spoken language translation
7. the integration of machine translation and translation memory systems
8. the integration of machine translation software in larger IT
applications
9. the evaluation of machine translation systems in real tasks such as
those above
10. the cross-fertilisation between machine translation and other
language technologies
Prize
The winner will be announced by the end of March, 2013, and will receive
a prize of EUR500, together with a suitably-inscribed certificate. In
addition, the recipient of the award will be required to briefly present
their research at the Machine Translation Summit XIV conference to be
held in Nice, France, 2--6 september 2013. In order to facilitate this,
the EAMT will waive the winner's registration costs, and will make
available a travel bursary of EUR200 to enable the recipient of the
award to attend the said conference.
Submission
Should you wish to enter your thesis, please use the following link:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eamtbta2012
to submit a single PDF file containing, in this order:
1. a 2-page summary of your thesis in English, containing:
2. your full contact details,
3. the name and contact details of your supervisor(s),
4. a copy of your CV in English (at most one page, plus a complete list
of publications directly related to the thesis)
5. an electronic copy of your thesis
6. optionally, an appendix with any other relevant information on the
thesis
By submitting their work, authors
1. agree that, in case they are granted the award, any subsequently
published version of the thesis should carry the citation "Winner of
the Best Thesis Award 2012 of the European Association for Machine
Translation" and
2. acknowledge the right of the EAMT to publicize the granting of the
award.
Closing date
The closing date for submissions is December 31, 2012, 23:59 Central
European Time. No extensions
will be granted.
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[1] Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia.
[2] Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Palestine, Qatar,
Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen.
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Mikel L. Forcada (http://www.dlsi.ua.es/~mlf/)
Departament de Llenguatges i Sistemes Informàtics
Universitat d'Alacant
E-03071 Alacant, Spain
Phone: +34 96 590 9776
Fax: +34 96 590 9326
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