MT SUMMIT 2021 | 2ND CALL FOR PAPERS, PRESENTATIONS, AND WORKSHOP AND
TUTORIAL PROPOSALS
MT Summit XVIII - 2021
The 18th biennial conference of the International Association of Machine
Translation
16-20 August 2021, Orlando, Florida, USA
We are pleased to distribute the 2nd call for papers and presentations,
as well as for proposals for Workshops and Tutorials, for MT Summit
XVIII, the 18th Machine Translation Summit, to be held 16-20 August
2021. The conference is set to take place at a spectacular venue located
just outside the Disney theme parks, the Sheraton Orlando Lake Buena
Vista Resort in Orlando, Florida, USA [1]. We also plan to provide
registration options for remote viewing of conference presentations, and
we will continue to monitor the pandemic situation closely, converting
to a completely virtual format if needed to ensure the safety of
participants.
This year's conference is organized by the Association for Machine
Translation in the Americas [2]. The biennial MT Summit brings together
the American (AMTA [2]), Asian-Pacific (AAMT [3]) and European (EAMT
[4]) branches of the International Association for Machine Translation
(IAMT [5]), creating an invaluable opportunity to discuss the issues of
the day with a truly global gathering of MT researchers, developers,
providers, and users. For academic, student, and commercial researchers,
MT Summit XVIII provides a unique context in which to share the latest
results with colleagues as well as understand real-world user
requirements. MT providers and users in both business and government
settings will benefit from updates on leading-edge R&D in Machine
Translation and have a chance to present and discuss their use cases. In
all these contexts, we strongly encourage student submissions and
participation as well.
SPECIAL OPPORTUNITY FOR STUDENTS
Students who register for the conference will have the opportunity to be
paired with mentors to discuss career goals, aspirations, experiences,
and recommendations. Repeating the very successful student mentoring
sessions held at the AMTA 2020 conference last October, experts in
Machine Translation across Academia, Industry, and Government have
volunteered to lead small group sessions where students can ask
questions and get exposure to the details of possible MT-related career
paths. These opportunities are available to all students who attend the
conference, regardless of background or experience.
SURVEY OPPORTUNITY ON MT TRENDS
One of the keynotes at the MT Summit will review the results of a survey
conducted by CSA Research on MT Trends. We invite representatives from
all commercial and government organizations, as well as LSPs and
individual freelancers, to participate in this survey [6] about how you
and/or your business uses MT technology. Participants will receive the
survey results, allowing them to benchmark themselves against their
peers. The deadline to participate is April 9, 2021. Please help us
collect data that will be meaningful and valuable to the entire MT
community by taking this survey [7].
CONFERENCE TRACKS
The conference will feature three main tracks - Research, Users and
Providers, and Government, each dedicated to a respective area in
machine translation research, commercial application, and government
use.
The following important dates apply to each of the tracks:
* Submission deadline: Monday, 10 May
2021
* Notification of acceptance: Monday, 21 June 2021
* Final "camera-ready" versions: Monday, 12 July 2021
Please note the earlier deadline for submission of Workshop proposals:
Monday, 12 April 2021
The submission and "camera-ready" deadline time zone for all the above
dates is "Anywhere on Earth" (UTC-12).
IMPORTANT NOTE: Due to the hybrid nature of the conference, all papers,
presentations, tutorials, and workshops will be recorded without
exception. Any submission will be understood by the MT Summit Organizing
Committee as giving your tacit permission for the organizers to create a
video recording of your presentation and make it available to conference
attendees, and potentially to members of AMTA [2], AAMT [3], or EAMT [4]
as well. Depending on the final format of the conference, we may also
request that presentations be pre-recorded.
Guidelines for submission to the tracks of the conference are as
follows:
RESEARCH TRACK
Chairs: Kevin Duh, Francisco Guzman (mtresearch...@amtaweb.org)
We invite original, substantial, and unpublished research in all aspects
of machine translation (MT). We seek submissions across the entire
spectrum of MT-related research, but with a particular focus on MT
Summit's strength: the close interaction between researchers and
practitioners who are looking to apply the latest MT technology to their
tasks. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
* Advances in data-driven MT (e.g. neural, statistical)
* Lexicon acquisition and integration into MT
* MT for low resource languages
* Model distillation, compression, and on-device MT
* MT in production scenarios, robustness and deployment issues.
* MT for multiple modalities (Speech, OCR)
* MT for communication (chats, blogs, social networks)
* Few-shot adaptation of pre-trained MT systems
* Deep integration of MT technology within translation and
localization pipelines
* Large-scale mining of translation resources
* Computer Assisted Translation (CAT)
* MT Evaluation
* Measuring Fairness, Bias, Transparency in Translation
* Detecting and preventing Catastrophic errors in Translation
* Best practices in annotation for Translation
Submission Instructions:
Papers should not be longer than 10 pages of content (for references,
unlimited number of pages is allowed). The papers must be submitted in
PDF format and adhere to one of the following style guides: PDF version
[8], LaTeX version [9], MS Word version [10]. To allow for blind
reviewing, please do not include author names and affiliations within
the paper and avoid obvious self-references. Research track papers must
represent new work that has not been previously published (pre-prints
posted online on servers such as arXiv do not count as published papers,
and thus are allowed to be submitted; we do not require a 1-month
anonymity period for previous submissions on arXiv). Authors submitting
a similar paper to another conference or workshop must specify this at
submission time; if the paper is accepted to multiple venues, the author
must choose which one to present at. Papers must be submitted to the
following website by the conference submission deadline:
https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/MTSUMMIT2021.
PUBLICATION
Final versions of papers must be submitted by the final "camera-ready"
date. All Research track papers will be included in the conference
proceedings, which will be made publicly available on the MT Summit
website [11] after the conference. Papers will also be hosted
individually on the ACL Anthology website [12].
MT USERS AND PROVIDERS TRACK
Chairs: Janice Campbell, Jay Marciano, Konstantin Savenkov, Alex
Yanishevsky (mtusers-provid...@amtaweb.org)
This track is intended for users, providers, and developers of machine
translation, as well as professional translators and Language Service
Providers, to present novel, original, and unpublished applications of
machine translation technology or specific use cases.
We seek submissions for 30-minute presentations, which will include
several minutes for questions and discussion, concerning the use of MT
and/or related tools, processes, and technologies to support business
goals and serve the customer or user in commercial settings.
Topics of interest may include, but are not limited to, the following:
* Preparing data for MT training and customization: extraction,
alignment, and cleaning of corpora, terminology, DNT and abbreviations,
data augmentation, metadata extraction, working with data drift.
* Advanced techniques of training and domain adaptation of MT engines:
open frameworks and commercial Custom MT platforms, approaches to
analyze and improve training performance.
* Applying MT for low-resource or otherwise special circumstances: low
resource language pairs, cross-dialect and cross-domain translation.
* Evaluation of MT systems with respect to available reference data,
technical and linguistic requirements.
* MT quality and confidence scoring: tools and metrics that identify
risk, support business KPIs and estimate ROI.
* Advanced MT fine-tuning and enhancement, including pre- and
post-processing, controlling style, tone of voice, gender,
pseudonymization, automated post-editing and others.
* Interactive and real-time adaptive MT systems, including advanced
approaches to leverage TM and end-user feedback.
* MT Post-Editing: switching from HT to MTPE, success and failure
stories, applicability to different content-types, MTPE training,
defining fair pricing models and working with translation buyers and
providers.
* Technical challenges in MT adoption: file format and tag support,
integration, security, performance, data protection, locality and
compliance.
* MT Case Studies: making the business case for adopting MT to drive
business requirements, expand markets and engage with customers.
Post-edited MT, real-time MT, cross-language information retrieval.
* Augmenting MT with other AI tools to solve complex business
problems: classification, content moderation, sentiment analysis, OCR,
STT and TTS.
* Source text improvement: improving the source content for MT, both
through automatic tools such as grammar correction and guidelines.
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
Please submit a 250 to 500-word abstract describing your presentation
topic to the MT Users and Providers Chairs
(mtusers-provid...@amtaweb.org) by the conference submission deadline.
The submission should include a 100-words-or-less biographical
description of the proposed speaker(s). We welcome presentations from MT
technology and service providers, but their presentations should not
constitute a "sales pitch." The focus should be on innovative MT
technology, processes, and real-world use cases, rather than on a
particular product or offering.
PUBLICATION
Presentations in the form of slide decks are acceptable submissions and
should be in PDF format. Papers are welcomed, as they typically provide
a greater level of detail and understanding to conference attendees. If
submitted, papers should be formatted according to the guidelines under
Submission Instructions for the Research Track (see above) . Only
abstracts are required to be submitted by the initial submission
deadline. Papers and slide decks must be submitted by the final
"camera-ready" date for publication in the conference proceedings and on
the ACL Anthology website [12].
GOVERNMENT TRACK
Chairs: Ben Huyck, Steve LaRocca (govtmtus...@amtaweb.org)
We invite MT practitioners involved with governments worldwide to submit
proposals for presentations about your insights on research,
development, and operational use of MT and MT-related technologies in
government and military settings. We especially encourage perspectives
that challenge the broader MT community, including issues with
implementing and utilizing MT, whether on the technical side, the human
side, or both.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* MT as an operational tool for translation, analysis, information
discovery.
* MT for "non-standard" language in chats, blogs and social networks.
* Evaluation of MT including estimation of ROI and human factors.
* MT research and development in government and military settings.
* Integration of MT into broader workflow, including case studies.
* Linguistic resources for MT, especially those hard to find or
create.
* Neural MT opportunities and challenges.
* MT in Humanitarian Assistance / Disaster Relief contexts.
* Challenges, opportunities and insights into MT needs for the
government and military.
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
Initial submissions should be abstracts 250-500 words in length. The
following should accompany each abstract submission:
1. Presentation Title
2. Presenter Name, including a short bio (<100 words)
3. Representing Organization
4. Email Address
5. Phone Number
Please email your abstract to the Government Track Chairs
(govtmtus...@amtaweb.org) by the conference submission deadline.
PUBLICATION
While not mandatory, presenters are strongly encouraged to have their
submissions published in the conference proceedings, producing papers in
accordance with the guidelines under Submission Instructions for the
Research Track (see above). Slide decks may also be accepted. While only
abstracts are required to be submitted by the initial submission
deadline, papers and/or slide decks must be submitted by the final
camera-ready date for publication in the conference proceedings and on
the ACL Anthology website [12].
WORKSHOP AND TUTORIAL PROPOSALS
Chair: Jay Marciano (tutori...@amtaweb.org or worksh...@amtaweb.org)
The organizing committee of MT Summit XVIII is seeking proposals for
workshops and tutorials on all topics related to MT research,
development, application, and evaluation. Our goal is to have a program
of workshops and tutorials that appeals to the various constituents of
the MT community (researchers, developers, students, commercial users,
and language professionals). Therefore we welcome not only proposals on
deeply technical research and development topics but also on, for
instance, the collection and curation of training data, best practices
in training MT systems, human/computer interaction among translators,
interpreters, and other users of MT output, and the evolving role of
translation automation in the commercial translation production
pipeline.
Tutorials and Workshops will be held on Monday, August 16, immediately
preceding the main conference, and Friday, August 20, immediately
following the main conference.
TUTORIALS
Tutorials are a forum for experts in MT and MT-related areas to deliver
concentrated training on a topic of interest in half-day teaching
sessions. Tutorials help conference participants enrich their
understanding of particular technical, applied, and business matters
surrounding research, development and use of MT and associated
technologies, or, in the case of tutorials designed for newcomers,
provide background information that facilitates greater understanding of
the overall conference program.
Proposals for tutorials should be sent by the conference submission
deadline to tutorials@amtaweb.organdinclude:
* the title
* a 250-500 word description of the proposed content
* a short (<100 words) biographical introduction to the proposed
presenter(s)
* any technical requirements you may have
* a scanned signed copy of the Tutorial Policy and Leader Agreement
Form [13]
WORKSHOPS
Workshops are intended to provide the opportunity for MT-related
communities of interest to spend focused time together advancing the
state of thinking or the state of practice in their area of interest or
endeavor. Workshops are typically scheduled as full-day events.
Every effort will be made to accept or reject (with reason) workshop
proposals as soon as possible after they are received by the organizing
committee so that the workshop organizers have adequate time to prepare
the workshop.
We encourage you to submit your proposals for workshops as early as
possible to workshops@amtaweb.organdinclude:
* the title
* a 250-500 word description of the proposed content
* whether this is an ongoing or new workshop
* a short (<100 words) biographical introduction to the proposed
presenter(s)
* the expected number of participants
* dates for important milestones (call for papers, recruitment of
speakers, etc.)
* any technical requirements you may have
* a scanned signed copy of the Workshop Policy and Leader Agreement
Form [14].
Workshop proposals should be submitted no later than Monday, 12 April
2021. Please note that this date is one month earlier than the deadline
for other papers and presentations at MT Summit XVIII.
We look forward to receiving your proposal!
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