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EAMT 2020: The 22th Annual Conference of the European Association for
Machine Translation
Centro de Congressos do ISTInstituto Superior TécnicoCampus AlamedaAv.
Rovisco Pais, 1, 1049-001 LISBOA, PortugalMay 4 to 6, 2020
https://eamt2020.inesc-id.pt/
The European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT) invites everyone
interested in machine translation and translation-related tools and
resources ― developers, researchers, users, translation and localization
professionals and managers ― to participate in this conference. If you
envisage an information world in which language barriers become less
visible to the information consumer, submit a paper on the topic that
drives you and your work. Driven by the state of the art, the research
community will demonstrate their cutting-edge research and results, and
professional MT users in the language industry will provide insight into
successful MT implementation in business scenarios. Translation studies
scholars and translation practitioners are also invited to share their
first-hand MT experience, which will be addressed in a special
Translators’ track.
We expect to receive submissions in these four categories:
(R) Research papers
Submissions (up to 10 pages, including references) are invited for
reports of significant research results in any aspect of machine
translation and related areas. Such reports should include a substantial
evaluation component, or have a strong theoretical and/or methodological
contribution where results and in-depth evaluations may not be
appropriate. Papers are welcome on all topics in the areas of machine
translation and translation-related technologies, including:
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Novel deep-learning approaches for MT and MT evaluation;
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Advances in classical MT paradigms: statistical, rule-based, and
hybrid approaches;
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Comparison of various MT approaches;
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Technologies for MT deployment: quality estimation, domain
adaptation, etc.;
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MT in special settings: low resources, massive resources, high
volume, low computing resources;
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MT applications: translation/localisation aids, speech-to-speech,
speech-to-text, OCR, MT for user generated content (blogs, social
networks), etc.;
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Linguistic resources for MT: dictionaries, terminology, corpora, etc.;
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MT evaluation techniques, metrics, and evaluation results;
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Human factors in MT and user interfaces;
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Related multilingual technologies: natural language generation,
information retrieval, text categorisation, text summarisation,
information extraction, etc.
Papers should describe original work. They should emphasise completed
work rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly the state of
completion of the reported results. Where appropriate, concrete
evaluation results should be included.
Papers should be anonymized, prepared according to the templates
specified below , and no longer than 10 pages (including references);
the resulting PDFs submitted to
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eamt2020(Submission type:
EAMT2020 Research).
(U) User studies
Submissions (up to 10 pages, including references) are invited for
reports on case studies and implementation experience with MT in small
or medium-size businesses in the language industry, as well as
implementation scenarios involving large corporations, governments, or
NGOs. Contributions are welcome on the following topics:
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Integrating MT and computer-assisted translation into a translation
production workflow (e.g. transforming terminology glossaries into
MT resources, optimizing TM/MT thresholds, mixing online and offline
tools, using interactive MT, dealing with MT confidence scores);
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Use of MT to improve translation or localisation workflows (e.g.
reducing turnaround times, improving translation consistency,
increasing the scope of globalisation projects);
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Managing change when implementing and using MT (e.g. switching
between multiple MT systems, limiting degradations when updating or
upgrading an MT system);
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Implementing open-source MT in the SME or enterprise (e.g.
strategies to get support, reports on taking pilot results into full
deployment, examples of advanced customisation sought and obtained
thanks to the open-source paradigm, collaboration within open-source
MT projects);
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Evaluating MT in a real-world setting (e.g. error detection
strategies employed, metrics used, productivity or translation
quality gains achieved);
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Post-editing strategies and tools (e.g. limitations of traditional
translation quality assurance tools, challenges associated with
post-editing guidelines);
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Legal issues associated with MT, especially MT in the cloud (e.g.
copyright, privacy);
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Using MT in social networking or real-time communication (e.g.
enterprise support chat, multilingual content for social media);
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Implementing MT to process multilingual content for assimilation
purposes (e.g. cross-lingual information retrieval, MT for
e-discovery or spam detection, MT for highly dynamic content);
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Implementing MT standards.
Papers should highlight problems and solutions in addition to describing
MT integration processes and project settings. Where solutions do not
seem to exist, suggestions for MT researchers and developers should be
clearly emphasised. For user papers produced by academics, we require
co-authorship with the actual users.
Papers should be formatted according to the templates specified below,
no longer than 10 pages (including references), and submitted as PDF
files to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eamt2020(Submission
type: EAMT2020 User). Please note that 10 pages is the maximum number of
pages. Innovative and professional submissions of any lengthwill be
evaluated by the committee.
(P) Project/Product description
Submissions (2 pages, including references) are invited to report new,
interesting:
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Tools for machine translation, computer aided translation, and the
like (including commercial products and open-source software). The
authors should be ready to present the tools in the form of demos or
posters during the conference;
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Research projects related to machine translation. The authors should
be ready to present the projects in the form of posters during the
conference. This follows on from the successful ‘project villages’
held at the last EAMT conferences.
Abstracts should be formatted according to the templates specified
below, no longer than 2 pages (including references), and submitted as
PDF files to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eamt2020(Submission
type: EAMT2020 Products-Projects).
(T) Translators’ track
The use of machine translation by professional translators has an
important social and economic impact due to the multilinguality of
globalized societies. Translation practitioners deal with MT output in a
wide variety of environments (inside or outside CAT tools, post-editing
or drafting for inspiration, managing projects, training and improving
engines) and, for this reason, they play a key role in the translation
workflow and in the advance of MT.
This conference invites translation practitioners and translation
scholars to share their views and observations based on their day-to-day
experience through submissions reporting on issues such as:
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Measurements of comparative effort (time/keystrokes/cognitive) in
translation practices involving MT and their impact on the profession;
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Impact of MT on translators’ work: processes, new invoicing methods
(for example, using TER for matching), applicability;
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Psycho-social aspects of MT adoption (ergonomics, motivation, and
social impact on the profession);
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Error analysis and post-editing strategies (including automatic
post-editing and automation strategies);
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The use of translators’ metadata and user activity data in MT
development;
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Freelance translators’ independent use of MT (e.g. for individual
productivity and not necessarily a customer requirement);
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MT and usability;
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MT in literary, audiovisual, game localisation and creative texts;
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MT and interpreting;
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Ethical and confidentiality issues when using MT;
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MT in various scenarios including health care communication, crisis
translation, and climate change;
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MT in the translation/interpreting classroom.
Accepted translator track papers will be published in the conference
proceedings. Please make sure to consult and cite previously published
work before submitting your paper.
Submissions (up to 10 pages, including references) should be formatted
according to the templates specified below and submitted as PDF files to
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eamt2020(Submission type:
EAMT2020 Translator). Please note that 10 pages is the maximum number of
pages. Submissions of any lengthwill be evaluated by the committee.
Paper templates
Use the LaTeX, Microsoft Word and LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org templates
available at https://eamt2020.inesc-id.pt/#templatesto prepare your
submission.
Publication
Accepted papers will be published in an electronic book of proceedings
with an ISBN number.
In addition, the best accepted papers will be invited to submit an
extended version undergoing a lighter reviewing process, as regular
papers in the Springer journal Machine Translation
<https://link.springer.com/journal/10590>.
Programme
In addition to an invited talk (to be announced), the programme of the
Research, User, and Translators’ tracks will include oral presentations
and poster sessions. Accepted papers may be assigned to an oral or
poster session, but no differentiation will be made in the conference
proceedings.
Conference chairs
Research track co-chairs:
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Arianna Bisazza, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, the Netherlands
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Marco Turchi, FBK, Trento, Italy
User track co-chairs:
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Mary Nurminen, Tampere University
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Lena Marg, Welocalize
Translators’ track co-chairs:
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Ana Guerberof, University of Surrey
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Joss Moorkens, Dublin City University.
Local organizing chairs:
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André Martins, IST and Unbabel, Lisbon, Portugal
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Helena Moniz, INESC-ID and Unbabel, Lisbon, Portugal
General chair: Mikel L. Forcada, EAMT President, Universitat d’Alacant,
Spain (also Project/Product chair).
Best Thesis Award
The EAMT Best Thesis Award 2020 for PhD theses defended during 2019 will
be awarded at the conference, together with a presentation of the
winner’s work. Information for candidates to the award is available at:
http://eamt.org/news/news_best_thesis_2019.php. The deadline is the same
as for the paper submission. Theses should be submitted to
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eamt2020(Submission type: Thesis
Award)
Important dates
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Paper submission: March 6, 2020.
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Notification to authors: April 3, 2020.
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Camera-ready deadline: April 10, 2020.
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Early-bird registration: April 17, 2020.
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Conference: May 4–6, 2020.
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Mikel L. Forcada http://www.dlsi.ua.es/~mlf/
Departament de Llenguatges i Sistemes Informàtics
Universitat d'Alacant
E-03690 Sant Vicent del Raspeig
Spain
Office: +34 96 590 9776
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