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Call for papers: Machine Translation journal Special Issue on "Free/Open-Source Machine Translation" [http://www.computing.dcu.ie/~mforcada/mtj-si-fosmt.html] Machine Translation ISSN 0922-6567 Editor-in-Chief: Andy Way http://www.springer.com/computer/artificial/journal/10590 Guest editors: Mikel L. Forcada (Dublin City University and Universitat d'Alacant) Felipe Sánchez-Martínez (Universitat d'Alacant) Rationale The free/open-source software philosophy has been embraced by many machine translation (MT) practitioners, as demonstrated by the fact that over the last five years a number of free/open-source MT systems and resources have been released (http://www.fosmt.org). Furthermore, there have been conferences and workshops focused on open-source developments for MT such as the four MT Marathons held until now (http://www.mtmarathon2010.info), the first International Workshop on Free/Open-Source Rule-Based MT held in November 2009 (http://xixona.dlsi.ua.es/freerbmt09/), the seminal OSMaTran workshop on Open-Source MT held on September 2005 at the Tenth MT Summit (http://www.torsimany.ua.es/), or the open-source-themed 3rd Workshop on Example-Based Machine Translation (http://computing.dcu.ie/~mforcada/ebmt3/). The benefit of having free/open-source MT systems is twofold: on one hand, open-source developments allow the reproducibility of experiments, a key point in the advance of any scientific field. On the other hand, they make it easier for end users to benefit from the latest advances in the field. Inspired by the successful open-source systems presented at the conferences and workshops mentioned above, and by the strong belief that the future of machine translation is in the development of free/open-source MT systems, we propose to bring together in this special issue papers describing the leading free/open source MT systems in existence. Scope This special issue is dedicated to free/open-source machine translation systems (rule-based, example-based, statistical), where free/open-source means that the system uses a licence that is either a free licence as defined by the Free Software Foundation (http://gnu.org/licenses/license-list.htm), or an open-source licence as defined by the Open Source Initiative (http://opensource.org/licenses/). Contributions on approaches which still achieve performance levels below the state of the art may be suitable for inclusion in this issue, provided that they stem from sound directions with clear potential for further developments. Submission guidelines * Authors should follow the "Instructions for Authors" available on the MT Journal website:http://www.springer.com/computer/artificial/journal/10590 * Submissions must be limited to 15 pages (including references) Papers should be submitted online directly on the MT journal's submission website: http://www.editorialmanager.com/coat/default.asp, indicating this special issue in article type Important dates * Deadline for 'Submission Intent' e-mail: JUNE 30, 2010 - contributors must send an email with the abstract of the submission to special-issue-fosmt (at) dlsi (dot) ua (dot) es * Deadline for submissions: July 31, 2010 * Notification to the authors: October 15, 2010 * Deadline for final version: December 15, 2010 * Publication: 2011 Mikel L. Forcada <m...@dlsi.ua.es> Dept. Llenguatges i Sistemes Informàtics Universitat d'Alacant, E-03071 Alacant (Spain) Tel.: +34 96 590 9776 Fax: +34 96 590 9326 _______________________________________________ Mt-list mailing list
