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*2nd Call for papers*
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EAMT 2017: The 20th Annual Conference of the European Association for
Machine Translation
Prague, Czech RepublicMay 29–31, 2017https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/eamt2017/
Paper submission deadline: March 26, 2017
A call to everyone involved with machine translation
The European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT) invites everyone
interested in machine translation, translation-related tools and
resources to participate in this conference ― developers, researchers,
users, professional translators and translation/localisation managers:
anyone who has a stake in the vision of an information world in which
language barriers and issues become less visible to the information
consumer. We especially invite researchers to describe the state of the
art and demonstrate their cutting-edge results, and institutions and
independent MT users to share their experiences.
We expect to receive manuscripts in these three categories:
(R) Research papers
Long-paper submissions (12 pages) are invited for reports of significant
research results in any aspect of machine translation and related areas.
Such reports should either 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 using the templates available at
http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/eamt2017/, and no longer than 12 pages; the
resulting PDFs submitted to
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eamt2017(Submission type:
EAMT2017 Research).
(U) User studies
Short-paper submissions (3-6 pages) are invited for reports on users'
experiences with MT, be it as individual translators, in small or medium
size business (SMB), in the enterprise, in government, or in NGOs.
Contributions are welcome on:
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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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Evaluation of 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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Use of MT in social networking or real-time communication (e.g.
enterprise support chat, multilingual content for social media);
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Use of 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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Use of standards for MT.
Papers should highlight problems and solutions in addition to describing
MT integration process or 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 available at
https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/eamt2017/, no longer than 6 pages, and
submitted to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eamt2017(Submission
type: EAMT2017 User)
(P) Project/Product description
Abstract submissions (1 page) 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 available at
https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/eamt2017/, no longer than 1 page, and submitted
to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eamt2017(Submission type:
EAMT2017 Products–Projects).
Publications
Accepted papers in the research track will be published in a special
issue (number 108, dated June 2017) of the Prague Bulletin of
Mathematical Linguistics (PBML), https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/pbml.
Accepted papers in the user track and accepted project/product
description abstracts will be published in an electronic book of
proceedings.
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.
Best Thesis Award
The EAMT Best Thesis Award 2017 for PhD theses submitted during 2016
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://www.eamt.org/news/news_best_thesis2016.php. The deadline is the
same as for the paper submission. Theses should be submitted to
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eamt2017(Submission type: Thesis
Award)
Important dates
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Paper submission: March 26, 2017.
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Notification to authors: April 21, 2017.
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Early bird registration: April 28, 2017.
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Camera-ready deadline: May 2, 2017
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Conference: May 29–31, 2017.
Chairs
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General chair: Mikel L. Forcada, Universitat d’Alacant, Spain
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Research track chair: Alexander Fraser,
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
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User track chair: Kim Harris, text&form GmbH, Berlin, Germany
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Local organization: Ondřej Bojar, Jan Hajič, Univerzita Karlova,
Prague, Czech Republic.
About the programme
Keynote speaker
João Graça, CTO and co-founder of Unbabel (Lisboa, Portugal)"How to
combine AI with the crowd to scale professional-quality translation"
General programme
The programme 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.
The winner of the EAMT Best Thesis Award 2017 will present their work.
EAMT General Assembly
Everyone is invited to the annual General Assembly of the European
Association for Machine Translation. But if you really want to take part
in the future of the EAMT, become a member:
http://www.eamt.org/membership.php.
Social activities
To be announced.
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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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