AMTA 2016 is soliciting contributions to our research, commercial user, and government user tracks, and a technology showcase of commercial and research-stage MT technology.
Important dates for research, commercial, and government tracks:
Submission deadline: Thursday, 14 July 2016
Notification of acceptance: Monday, 15 August 2016
Final “camera-ready” versions: Monday, 12 September 2016
General Chair: George Foster (NRC Canada)
Steering Committee: Alon Lavie (Amazon), Hassan Sawaf (eBay), Mike Dillinger (LinkedIn)
Research Track Co-Chairs: Lane Schwartz (U Illinois), Spence Green (Lilt)
Commercial Track Co-Chairs: Steve Richardson (LDS Church), Olga Beregovaya (Welocalize)
Government Track Chair: Jennifer Doyon (MITRE), Lucie Langlois (CAS)
Workshops and Tutorials Chair: Roland Kuhn (NRC Canada)
Publications Chair: Elaine O’Curran (Welocalize)
Publicity Chair: Elliott Macklovitch
Technology Showcase Chair: Jennifer DeCamp (MITRE)
Web Master: Mike Dillinger (LinkedIn)
Business and Local Arrangements: Priscilla Rasmussen (ARCS)
This year, the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas will host
AMTA 2016
at the Austin Hilton in Austin, Texas
from Friday, October 29 through Tuesday, November 2, 2016
— together with EMNLP.
Miami, FL, October 30 – November 3, 2015
Main Conference
Introduction to Machine Translation — Jay Marciano
Computer Aided Translation: Advances and Challenges — Philipp Koehn
Using Microsoft Translator Hub and Collaborative Translator Framework — Chris Wendt
Neural Networks in MT — Kyunghyun Cho
Beyond Post-editing: Interactive and Adaptive Translation Technologies — Spence Green
Workshops (Jay Marciano, Coordinator)
Technology Showcase Guide (Jennifer DeCamp, Showcase Organizer)
These papers were accepted for presentation:
| Jinhua Du, Ankit Srivastava, Andy Way, Alfredo Maldonado-Guerra and David Lewis |
|
An Empirical Study on Segment Prioritization for Incrementally Retrained Post-Editing SMT |
| Nadir Durrani, Hassan Sajjad, Shafiq Joty, Ahmed Abdelali and Stephan Vogel |
|
Using Joint Models for Domain Adaptation in Statistical Machine Translation |
| Ahmed El Kholy and Nizar Habash |
|
Morphological Constraints for Phrase Pivot Statistical Machine Translation |
| Zied Elloumi, Hervé Blanchon, Gilles Sérasset and Laurent Besacier |
|
METEOR for Multiple Target Languages using DBnary |
| Carla Parra Escartín and Manuel Arcedillo |
|
Machine translation evaluation made fuzzier: A study on post-editing productivity and evaluation metrics in commercial settings |
| Masaru Fuji, Atsushi Fujita, Masao Utiyama, Eiichiro Sumita and Yuji Matsumoto |
|
Patent Claim Translation based on Sublanguage-specific Sentence Structure |
| Isao Goto, Hideki Tanaka and Tadashi Kumano |
|
Japanese News Simplification: Task Design, Data Set Construction, and Analysis of Simplified Text |
| Hideya MINO, Andrew Finch and Eiichiro Sumita |
|
Learning Bilingual Phrase Representations with Recurrent Neural Networks |
| Rei Miyata, Anthony Hartley, Cécile Paris, Midori Tatsumi and Kyo Kageura |
|
Japanese Controlled Language Rules to Improve Machine Translatability of Municipal Documents |
| Lane Schwartz, Isabel Lacruz and Tatyana Bystrova |
|
Effects of Word Alignment Visualization on Post-Editing Quality & Speed |
| Nina Seemann, Fabienne Braune and Andreas Maletti |
|
A Systematic Evaluation of MBOT in Statistical Machine Translation |
| Artem Sokolov and Stefan Riezler |
|
Bandit Structured Prediction for Learning from User Feedback in Statistical Machine Translation |
| Ke M. Tran, Arianna Bisazza and Christof Monz |
|
A Distributed Inflection Model for Translating into Morphologically Rich Languages |
| 王 超超, Deyi Xiong, Min Zhang and Chunyu Kit |
|
Learning Bilingual Distributed Phrase Representations for Statistical Machine Translation |
| Feifei Zhai and Liang Huang |
|
A Pilot Study Towards End-to-End MT Training |
| Dong Zhan and Hiromi Nakaiwa |
|
Automatic Detection of Antecedents of Japanese Zero Pronouns Using a Japanese-English Bilingual Corpus |
These papers were accepted for the poster session:
| Fatemeh Azadi and Shahram Khadivi |
|
Improving the Search Methods for the Interactive Predictions in CAT Systems |
| Meriem Beloucif, Markus Saers and Dekai Wu |
|
Improving Semantic SMT via Soft Semantic Role Label Constraints on ITG Alignments |
| Joachim Daiber and Khalil Sima’an |
|
Machine Translation with Source-Predicted Target Morphology |
| Gerard de Melo |
|
Wiktionary-Based Word Embeddings |
| Xiaoguang Hu, Wei Li, Xiang Lan, Hua Wu and Haifeng Wang |
|
Improved Beam Search with Constrained Softmax for NMT |
| Matthias Huck, Alexandra Birch and Barry Haddow |
|
Mixed-Domain vs. Multi-Domain Statistical Machine Translation |
| Rohit Kumar, Sanjika Hewavitharana, Nina Zinovieva, Matthew Roy and Edward Pattison-Gordon |
|
Error-Tolerant Speech-to-Speech Translation |
| Mihaela Vela and Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski |
|
Register-Based Machine Translation Evaluation with Text Classification Techniques |
| Yuanmei Lu, Toshiaki Nakazawa and Sadao Kurohashi |
|
Korean-to-Chinese Word Translation using Chinese Character Knowledge |
| Prashant Mathur, Marcello Federico, Selçuk Köprü, Shahram Khadivi and Hassan Sawaf |
|
Topic Adaptation for Machine Translation of E-commerce Content |
| Peyman Passban, Chris Hokamp and Qun Liu |
|
Bilingual Distributed Phrase Representations for Statistical Machine Translation |
MT Summit XV will host these workshops:
Friday, 30 October
All-day Workshop (9:00 – 5:00)
PSLT 2015
The 6th Workshop on Patent and Scientific Literature Translation
Tuesday, 3 November
Half-day Workshop (9:00 – 12:00)
WPTP 2015
Post-editing Technology and Practice
by Darius Hughes | February 16, 2016
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by Darius Hughes | February 12, 2016
General Chair: George Foster (NRC Canada) Steering Committee: Alon Lavie (Amazon), Hassan Sawaf (eBay), Mike Dillinger (LinkedIn) Research Track Co-Chairs: Lane Schwartz (U Illinois), Spence Green (Lilt) Commercial Track Co-Chairs: Steve Richardson (LDS Church), Olga Beregovaya (Welocalize) Government Track Chair: Jennifer Doyon (MITRE), Lucie Langlois (CAS) Workshops and Tutorials Chair: Roland Kuhn (NRC Canada) Publications […]
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by Darius Hughes | January 24, 2016
This year, the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas will host AMTA 2016 at the Austin Hilton in Austin, Texas from Friday, October 29 through Tuesday, November 2, 2016 — together with EMNLP.
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by Darius Hughes | October 30, 2015
Miami, FL, October 30 – November 3, 2015 Main Conference Proceedings, vol. 1: MT Researchers’ Track Proceedings, vol. 2: MT Users’ Track Tutorials (Jay Marciano, Coordinator) — Materials will be posted soon Introduction to Machine Translation — Jay Marciano Computer Aided Translation: Advances and Challenges — Philipp Koehn Using Microsoft Translator Hub and Collaborative Translator Framework […]
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by Darius Hughes | August 16, 2015
These papers were accepted for presentation: Jinhua Du, Ankit Srivastava, Andy Way, Alfredo Maldonado-Guerra and David Lewis An Empirical Study on Segment Prioritization for Incrementally Retrained Post-Editing SMT Nadir Durrani, Hassan Sajjad, Shafiq Joty, Ahmed Abdelali and Stephan Vogel Using Joint Models for Domain Adaptation in Statistical Machine Translation Ahmed El Kholy and Nizar Habash […]
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by Darius Hughes | August 16, 2015
MT Summit XV will host these workshops: Friday, 30 October All-day Workshop (9:00 – 5:00) PSLT 2015 The 6th Workshop on Patent and Scientific Literature Translation Tuesday, 3 November Half-day Workshop (9:00 – 12:00) WPTP 2015 Post-editing Technology and Practice
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