[Air-L] First Call for Papers for the Open Source Convention held at the Fourth MT Marathon

[MT Marathon 2010 Organising Comittee]

                 CALL FOR PAPERS:

OPEN SOURCE TOOLS FOR MACHINE TRANSLATION

The Fourth Machine Translation Marathon, which will take place January  
25-30 in Dublin, Ireland, is hosting an Open Source Convention to  
advance the state of the art in machine translation. The MT Marathon  
is organised by the National Centre for Language Technology and the  
Centre for Next Generation Localisation at Dublin City University on  
behalf of the EuroMatrixPlus Consortium.

We invite developers of open source tools to present their work and  
submit a paper of up to 10 pages that (a) describes the underlying  
methodology and (b) includes instructions how to use the tools.

We are looking for stand-alone tools and extensions of existing tools,  
such as the Moses open source systems. Accepted papers will be  
presented during the MT Marathon and published as a special issue of  
the Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics (http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/pbml 
).

Possible topics:

* training of machine translation models
* machine translation decoders
* tuning of machine translation systems
* evaluation of machine translation
* visualization, annotation or debugging tools
* tools for human translators
* interfaces for web-based services or APIs
* extensions of existing tools
* other tools for machine translation

This is the second time that the MT Marathon will host the Open Source  
Convention. The papers from last year are available online: http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/pbml-91-100.html

Papers will be reviewed by two reviewers appointed by the program  
committee.

Important dates:

Deadline for paper submission: December 1, 2009
Notification of acceptance: December 7, 2009
Camera-ready paper due: December 14, 2009
Presentations: January 25-30, 2009 (at the MT Marathon in Dublin)

Please send non-anonymized full-version submissions in .pdf format to  
Philipp Koehn <pkoehn at inf.ed.ac.uk>. Please use the PBML style files  
from http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/pbml-instructions.html (follow the "short  
paper" track instructions) or download the style package directly from http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/pbml-style-standard.html 
.

Program Committee

Philipp Koehn
Chris Callison-Bruch
Ventsislav Zhechev