[Air-L] CfParticipation: Workshop "Bringing MT to the User: Research on Integrating MT in the Translation Industry"

[Венцислав Жечев (Ventsislav Zhechev)]

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

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"Bringing MT to the User: Research on Integrating MT in the Translation Industry"
Second Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop (JEC 2010)

http://web.me.com/emcnglworkshop/JEC2010
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At the AMTA 2010 conference (http://amta2010.amtaweb.org), the EuroMatrix+ Project (http://www.euromatrixplus.eu) and the Centre for Next Generation Localisation (http://cngl.ie) are organising the Second Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop, titled "Bringing MT to the User: Research on Integrating MT in the Translation Industry". The workshop will take place in Denver, Colorado on 4 November 2010, immediately after the main AMTA 2010 conference.

Premise:
Recent years have seen a revolution in MT triggered by the emergence of statistical approaches to MT and improvements in translation quality. MT (rule-based, statistical and hybrid) is now available for many languages for free on the Web and is making strong inroads into the corporate localisation and translation industries. Open-source MT solutions are competing with proprietary products. Increasing numbers of translators are post-editing TM/MT output. At the same time, there has been some disconnect between academic research on MT, which (rightly so) focuses on algorithms to increase translation quality, and many of the practical issues that need to be addressed to make MT maximally useful in real translation and localisation scenarios.

Objectives:
This workshop will bring together MT researchers, developers, industrial users and translators to discuss issues that are most important in real world industrial settings involving MT, but currently not very popular in research circles.

Workshop Chairs:
Ventsislav Zhechev
Philipp Koehn
Josef van Genabith


Invited Speakers:
Daniel Marcu, Ph.D. (CTO and COO of SDL Language Weaver)
Will Burgett, PMP® (Product Manager, Intel Corporation)
For more information, go to http://web.me.com/emcnglworkshop/JEC2010/Invited_Speakers.html

Research Papers Accepted for Presentation:
• Shared Resources, Shared Values? Ethical Implications of Sharing Translation Resources (Jo Drugan and Bogdan Babych)
• Integrating Machine Translation with Translation Memory: A Practical Approach (Panagiotis Kanavos and Dimitrios Kartsaklis)
• Convergence of Translation Memory and Statistical Machine Translation (Philipp Koehn and Jean Senellart)
• Estimating Machine Translation Post-Editing Effort with HTER (Lucia Specia and Atefeh Farzindar)
• Source Text Characteristics and Technical and Temporal Post-Editing Effort: What is Their Relationship? (Midori Tatsumi and Johann Roturier)
• Machine Translation of TV Subtitles for Large Scale Production (Martin Volk, Rico Sennrich, Christian Hardmeier and Frida Tidström)

Program Committee:
The submitted papers were reviewed by a mixed industry–academia committee.
Industry members: Manuel Tomás Carrasco Benítez (DGT of the EC), Marc Dymetman (XRCE), Daniel Grasmick (Lucy Software), Fred Hollowood (Symantec), Johann Roturier (Symantec), Dag Schmidtke (Microsoft), Jean Senellart (Systran), Nicolas Stroppa (Google)
Academic members: Julien Bourdaillet (University of Montreal), Michael Carl (CBS, Denmark), Mikel Forcada (Universitat d’Alacant), Josef van Genabith (CNGL, EM+), Eiichiro Sumita (NICT, Japan), Philipp Koehn (EM+), Harold Somers (CNGL), Ventsislav Zhechev (EM+, CNGL)

The workshop program is available at http://web.me.com/emcnglworkshop/JEC2010/Program.html


Registration Deadline: 18 October 2010 (http://permatime.com/Pacific/Samoa/2010-10-18/16:59)
URL: http://www.regonline.com/amta_2010


Please, direct all enquiries to Dr. Ventsislav Zhechev at emcnglworkshop at me.com
For up-to-date information, please visit http://web.me.com/emcnglworkshop/JEC2010
For information about the First Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop, please visit http://www.euromatrixplus.eu/cngl2009




Dr. Ventsislav Zhechev
EuroMatrix+
Centre for Next Generation Localisation
School of Computing
Dublin City University

http://VentsislavZhechev.eu