This workshop is intended for translators who are curious about machine translation but have never seriously experimented with it or tried their hand at post-editing. The workshop will invite a limited number of CAT tool vendors whose systems incorporate machine translation and allow each forty minutes to demonstrate their system’s MT features, particularly those designed for post-editing. We will select vendors whose systems cover a range of different options, in terms of the type of embedded MT technology, language pairs covered, retraining options, licencing and software delivery model, facilities offered for post-editing, etc. We will also encourage the vendors to give workshop attendees the chance to actively try out their system using their own texts.
Organizer: Elliott Macklovitch
This workshop will consider questions relating to various forms of human interaction with MT, such as: How do organizations currently measure end-user interaction and satisfaction with MT? How does raw or post-edited MT affect usability of products or content? How does translator interaction with MT differ from translator interaction with human translation? How can MT developers best use end-user interaction data to improve MT output quality and user experience of MT? The term interacting is deliberately used to broaden the focus beyond post-editing and interactive MT, though both of these topics fit comfortably within the theme. The workshop will feature invited talks by prominent researchers in the field, as well as oral presentations of ongoing research work. Presentations will be selected based on submitted extended (500-word) abstracts. Presenting researchers will be invited to submit a paper to a special issue of Machine Translation journal on this topic.
Organizers: Sharon O’Brien, Michel Simard
Assessing Translation Quality Metrics October 28
Assessing the quality of production translation has become a key concern for translation consumers and end users, for translators and language service companies, and for researchers seeking to compare or improve tools, particularly machine translation. There are currently three standards in development in ASTM’s Language Services Committee and two standards in ISO’s Technical Committee 37 on Terminology and Other Language and Content Resources that focus on assessing translation quality. The Translation Automation Users Society (TAUS) has created a Quality Dashboard and framework (i.e., the Dynamic Quality Framework, now merged with the Multidimensional Quality Framework) which is extensively influencing some of the standards efforts.
This workshop reviews the types of questions asked by customers and end users of translation and by Language Service Providers. It then addresses the types of metrics and assessment methods currently available, looking at how effectively and under what conditions the assessment meets both the metric and the user or provider questions. The workshop then generates recommendations for ASTM, ISO, and TAUS, and for providers and consumers of translation, and for researchers and developers.
Organizer: Jennifer DeCamp (MITRE)
Semitic languages are used by a significantly large population of native speakers and belong to a family that includes classical Arabic, a large number of Arabic dialects, Hebrew, Amharic, Maltese and other languages. These languages are characterized by a system of word formation based on roots and patterns, a rich and productive morphology (including non-concatenative processes), a diversity of orthographic conventions and, unfortunately, limited language resources suitable for computational research and development.
Semitic languages as a whole are still understudied, although over the past decade there has been a body of computational processing research specifically targeted to individual Semitic languages, much of the work to date remains the result of initiatives undertaken by individual researchers or research establishments. Several workshops in recent years – both regional and affiliated with international conferences – have addressed the spectrum of issues relating to the processing of Arabic, Hebrew and other Semitic languages. The progress of recent years has opened the door to advanced computational applications such as machine translation. Research on machine translation of Semitic languages is, however, still in its early stages. Accurate translation of Arabic, Hebrew, Amharic, Maltese and other Semitic languages requires treatment of unique linguistic characteristics, some of which are common to all Semitic languages, others specific to each of these individual languages and their dialects.
The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and research specifically concerned with issues pertaining to machine translation to, from, and among Semitic languages. Furthermore, the workshop will be an opportunity for the Special Interest Group on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages (the SIG) to meet and discuss future direction in Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing approaches to Semitic Languages.
Organizers: Mona Diab, GWU, USA; Houda Bouamor, CMU-Qatar; Ahmed ElKholy, Microsoft, USA; Mahmoud Ghoneim, GWU, USA; Yuval Marton, Microsoft, USA
Government users are encouraged to contribute to MT Summit 2015 by submitting proposals for this year’s conference that pertain to the research, development and operational use of MT and MT-related technologies in government settings.
Important dates:
- Submission deadline: Monday July 13
- Notifications of acceptance: Monday August 27
- Final “camera-ready” versions: Monday September 7
Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:
- Use of MT as a translator tool
- Use of MT as an analyst tool
- Use of MT in chats, blogs and social networks
- Non-traditional uses of MT
- MT post-editing
- MT evaluation
- MT research and development
- MT case studies
- Linguistic resources for MT
- MT tool integration
What to submit:
Submissions should be 250-500 word abstracts. The following should accompany each abstract submission:
- Presentation Title
- Presenter Name
- Representing Organization
- Email Address
- Phone Number
All accepted submissions will be allotted 30 minute time slots. While not mandatory, presenters wishing to have their submissions published in the MT Summit Proceedings are required to produce papers in accordance with the MT Research Track Submission Instructions found in the Call for MT Research Papers. Presenters are advised to obtain the broadest level of release of their presentations and papers in their approval/release process in order to facilitate sharing and distribution.
If you have original software that you would like to show, you may also consider submitting a proposal for the MT Summit technology showcase. See the “Call for MT Technology Demonstrations and Exhibits” on the conference website. [Coming soon.]
How to submit:
Please email your abstract to the Government MT Users Chair (governmentmtusers@amtaweb.org) by Monday, July 13, 2015.
The Program Committee of MT Summit XVI has extended the submission deadlines of two tracks:
– Submissions to the Research track can be submitted until June 5th (three weeks extension). See more details here.
– Submissions to the Commercial MT Users and Translators track can be submitted until June 12th (11 days extension). See more details here.
Main Conference
Proceedings of AMTA 2016, vol. 1: MT Researchers’ Track Spence Green and Lane Schwartz (Eds.)
Proceedings of AMTA 2016, vol. 2: MT Users’ Track Olga Beregovaya, Jennifer Doyon, Lucie Langlois, and Steve Richardson (Eds.)
MT Marathons, Open Source, and Collaborative Research in MT Phillip Koehn, Research Track Invited Talk
Keynotes
MT escaped from the Lab. Now what? Mike Dillinger
Interactive Machine Translation: From Research to Practice Spence Green
DARPA Human Language Technology Programs Doug Jones
Neural MT: Breaking the Performance Plateau Rico Sennrich
Tutorials
Dependency-based Statistical MT Qun Liu & Liangyou Li
Computer Aided Translation: Advances and Challenges Philipp Koehn
Advances in Neural Machine Translation Rico Sennrich, Alexandra Birch, and Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt
ModernMT Marcello Federico and Marco Trombetti
Workshops
CAT Tool Workshop: Star Transit Presentation
AMTA 2016 is the twelfth biennial conference organized by the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas. The AMTA conferences are unique in bringing together MT researchers, developers, and users of MT technology from government and industry. This year’s AMTA will take place just before EMNLP 2016 in the same hotel, with a shared day of workshops.
Read more about this conference here!
Here is some of most prestigious international conferences and scientific journals that publish research papers related to machine translation. AMTA and MT Summit are focused on machine translation, computer-aided human translation, and tools for human translators. They are both affiliated with our association and we very much encourage you submit your original research work their. However, there are other venues for publishing MT research.
The list below provides you with some of those venues:
- MT Summit
- AMTA
- ACL
- EMNLP
- COLING
- HLT / NAACL
- IJCNLP
- IWSLT
- ASRU
by Darius Hughes | March 23, 2017
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by Darius Hughes | March 13, 2017
Contact: Jen Doyon (governmentmtusers@amtaweb.org) Government users are encouraged to contribute to MT Summit 2015 by submitting proposals for this year’s conference that pertain to the research, development and operational use of MT and MT-related technologies in government settings. Important dates: Submission deadline: Monday July 13 Notifications of acceptance: Monday August 27 Final “camera-ready” versions: Monday […]
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by Darius Hughes | January 29, 2017
The Program Committee of MT Summit XVI has extended the submission deadlines of two tracks: – Submissions to the Research track can be submitted until June 5th (three weeks extension). See more details here. – Submissions to the Commercial MT Users and Translators track can be submitted until June 12th (11 days extension). See more […]
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by Darius Hughes | October 29, 2016
Main Conference Proceedings of AMTA 2016, vol. 1: MT Researchers’ Track Spence Green and Lane Schwartz (Eds.) Proceedings of AMTA 2016, vol. 2: MT Users’ Track Olga Beregovaya, Jennifer Doyon, Lucie Langlois, and Steve Richardson (Eds.) MT Marathons, Open Source, and Collaborative Research in MT Phillip Koehn, Research Track Invited Talk Keynotes MT escaped […]
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by Darius Hughes | October 7, 2016
AMTA 2016 is the twelfth biennial conference organized by the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas. The AMTA conferences are unique in bringing together MT researchers, developers, and users of MT
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by Darius Hughes | October 7, 2016
Here is some of most prestigious international conferences and scientific journals that publish research papers related to machine translation.
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