Supporting the MT engine-building factory in CEF The CEF (Connecting Europe Facility) programme for building and deploying infrastructures has the broad goal of facilitating pan-European public online services (e.g. health, justice, procurement). A specific Automated Translation platform (aka CEF.AT) will also be setup as one of the core building blocks to support these pan-European services. As mentioned in the CEF guidelines the CEF.AT platform will comprise “machine translation engines and specialised language resources including the necessary tools and programming interfaces needed to operate the pan-European digital services in a multilingual environment.” The CEF.AT will build on the Moses-based MT@EC service developed and operated by the Directorate-General for Translation (DGT) of the European Commission, aiming at a more scalable, customised and secure service. More information on CEF.AT is available on Joinup.
DGT is working together with the Directorate General for Communication Networks, Content and Technology (CNECT) for the deployment of the CEF.AT platform, focusing essentially on the MT service part and on implementing an “engines factory” focusing on domain adaptation and on the automation of engines creation. In this context DGT is keen to investigate cloud-based solutions, as well as domain adaptation and customisation techniques and technologies that have been developed as intermediate or end results of EU funded projects and/or solutions that are available on the market. Accordingly, we invite expressions of interest to attend a closed session in Luxembourg in order to present mature solutions to these problems. While the Call is open to all, a fixed number of submissions will be selected for presentation at a closed event to take place in Luxembourg in late September, most probably on Tuesday September 22, 2015. Short introductions will be given on the day on the DGT Moses-based MT solution and its future requirements, and on CEF and beyond. Examples of topics that might be suitable for presentation include (but are not limited to): -- Deployed solutions to domain adaptation -- Discovering domain-specific terminology/conventions in parallel, comparable, and monolingual corpora -- Hybrid combinations of statistical models with linguistic and domain-specific knowledge -- Distributed SW Architectures for scalable MT solutions -- Cloud-Based MT solutions (not necessarily statistical) -- Shrinkwrapped installable MT solutions -- Setting up/accessing cloud-based engines in industry It will be a technical results-oriented workshop: the solutions presented should be concrete and practical and not limited to proof-of-concepts, as the output should be directly usable for the CEF.AT platform engines factory. No approach or solution is a priori excluded, so we are keen to see commercial solutions as well as public, open-source implementations. Expressions of interest (max 2 pages) demonstrating clearly how your solution adheres to these requirements should be sent to works...@mli-project.eu by 6pm CET on Friday 21st August. Programme Committee -- Andreas Eisele, Chief scientific officer for MT@EC, Informatics Unit, DGT, European Commission, Luxembourg -- Spyridon Pilos, Head of language applications sector, Informatics Unit, DG Translation, European Commission, Luxembourg -- Kimmo Rossi, Head of the Research and Innovation Execution sector, Data Value Chain unit, DG CONNECT, European Commission, Luxembourg -- Andrejs Vasiljevs, CEO Tilde, Riga, Latvia -- Andy Way, Deputy Director ADAPT Centre, Dublin, Ireland This workshop is being organised as part of the MLi project funded by the European Commission. _______________________________________________ Mt-list site list Mt-list@eamt.org http://lists.eamt.org/mailman/listinfo/mt-list
