Contacts: Yaser Al-Onaizan, William Lewis (mtresearchers@amtaweb.org)

MT Summit XV solicits original research papers that will advance the field of Machine Translation. We seek submissions across the entire spectrum of MT-related research activity. Submissions must be unpublished, and in English.

Important dates:

• Submission deadline: Friday July 10
• Notification of acceptance:  Monday, August 10
• Final “camera-ready” versions:  Monday, September 7

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Advances in various MT paradigms: data-driven, rule-based, and hybrids
• MT applications and embedding: translation/localization aids, speech-to-speech, speech-to-text, OCR, MT for communication (chats, blogs, social networks), multilingual applications, etc.
• Technologies for MT deployment: quality estimation and domain adaptation
• MT in special settings: low resources, massive resources, high volume, low computing resources
• Human factors in MT and user interfaces for MT
• Linguistic resources for MT: dictionaries, terminology banks, corpora
• MT evaluation techniques and evaluation results
• Empirical studies on translation data

If you have research 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” link on the conference website.

Submission Instructions:

Papers must not exceed 12 (twelve) pages plus 4 (four) pages for references. All papers should follow the formatting instructions included with the style files, and should be submitted in PDF. Latex, PDF and MS Word style files are available: mtsummit2015 mtsummit2015 mtsummit2015.latex

To allow for blind reviewing, please do not include author names and affiliations within the paper and avoid obvious self-references.

Papers must be submitted to the START system here by 11:59 pm PDT (GMT – 7 hours), Friday, July 10, 2015.

Multiple Submissions:

Papers presented at MT Summit XV must represent new work that has not been previously published. It is the responsibility of the author(s) to inform the program chairs of any potential problem with respect to this requirement. Authors submitting a similar paper both to MT Summit XV and another conference or workshop must inform the program chairs by email (mtresearchers@amtaweb.org), specifying to which other conference or workshop they are submitting their work. If the paper is accepted and presented at MT Summit XV, then it must be withdrawn from other conferences and workshops.

Contacts: Steve Richardson and Mike Dillinger (commercialmtusers@amtaweb.org)

The Commercial Users and Translators track will focus on how MT helps individual translators, Language Service Providers, and enterprise users deliver their products and services more effectively. Submissions should report on the use of MT to support business goals and serve customer needs in commercial settings by integrating it with other processes and technologies.
Example MT use cases include supplying on-demand localization, providing technical support information in multiple languages, and enabling global consumer-to-consumer transactions. Example products and services include MT integration with translator productivity tools, cloud-based MT services for integration with other web and mobile applications, and customization and deployment of MT engines for specific needs. See more possible topics below.

Important dates:

• Submissions due: Monday, July 13
• Notification of acceptance: Monday, August 3
• Final “camera-ready” versions due: Monday, August 31

Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

• Use of MT as a translator productivity tool: benefits, challenges, training requirements
• Methods for obtaining and using post-editor productivity data
• Quality evaluation and pricing methods for MT post-editing services
• Integrating MT into the localization program lifecycle
• Integrating MT with source content analysis and classification tools
• Integrating MT with web and mobile applications, such as social media
• Integrating MT into CAT tools
• Use of MT for publishing “noisy” source content types (user generated content, consumer–to-consumer communications, support web sites)
• Static and real-time domain adaptation and change management of MT systems in commercial deployments
• Use of MT to address global enterprise “big data” requirements such as web analytics
• Use of MT for cross-language search
• Use of MT in crowd-sourced translation environments
• Business applications of speech-to-speech MT
• Return on Investment (ROI) analysis of MT in commercial settings

What to submit:
Please submit a 250 to 500-word abstract describing your presentation to the Commercial MT Users Chairs (commercialmtusers@amtaweb.org) by 11:59 pm PDT (GMT – 7 hours), Monday, July 13, 2015.
If you have any questions, you can ask the Program Chairs at this same email address.
Ideal presentations will describe how MT helps to address a specific business challenge, with an objective assessment of its strengths and weaknesses for that particular challenge, supported by quantitative measures.
Submissions should not contain commercial solicitations of specific tools. If you have original software that you would like to show, you may also consider submitting a proposal for free space in the MT Summit Technology Showcase. See the “Call for MT Technology Demonstrations and Exhibits” on the conference website.

Publication
Please indicate whether you intend to submit your presentation for publication in the MT Summit XV Conference Proceedings. Publication in the Conference Proceedings is not a requirement, but we strongly suggest that you make your presentation available so other people can learn from your experiences.
If you want to have your presentation published as part of the Proceedings, it is preferred that you format it according to the Research track submission guidelines (See Call for MT Research Papers for details). However, slide decks or extended abstracts may also be accepted.

MT Summit XV is an international conference that every two years brings together researchers, developers, and users of Machine Translation technologies in industry and government. The conference reviews the state of the art in MT, its main trends, and practical applications.

What’s on the program?
The conference program for the MT Summit XV will include keynote speeches by renowned experts in the field of Machine Translation, panel discussions and presentations of submitted and invited papers organized in three program tracks – MT research,  commercial MT users, and government MT users.

Why attend?MT Summit XV will interest people from both academia and industry. For scientists it provides a unique opportunity to share research results with colleagues and understand user demands. Business participants will benefit from updates on leading-edge R & D in MT and have a chance to present their use cases.

The Technology Showcase
An exhibition of commercial and research systems will be held during the conference.

Tutorials and Workshops
Before the main conference two full days will be devoted to Tutorials and Workshops.

The Deadlines for Contributions have passed, but participation in the Technology Showcase is still open!

The Program Committee for MT Summit XV is accepting proposals for presentations in the three tracks of the program, as well as for tutorials and workshops.  Click on a link below for more information:

• Research Track: July 10
• Commercial Users Track: July 13
• Government Users Track: July 13
• Tech Showcase: July 13
• Call for Presentations from Commercial MT Users and Translators
• Call for Presentations from Government MT Users
• Call for Papers from MT Researchers
• Call for Tutorial Proposals
• Call for Workshop Proposals
• Call for Exhibitors in the Technology Showcase

Vancouver, BC, October 22-26, 2014

Main Conference

Proceedings, vol. 1: MT Researchers Track

Proceedings, vol. 2: MT Users Track

Tutorials (Anoop Sarkar, Coordinator)

Entities Tutorial

Interaction Design Tutorial

MateCat Tutorial Slides                 MateCat Manual

Moses Tutorial

Workshops (Ray Flournoy and George Foster, Coordinators)

Third Post-Editing Workshop

Interactive MT Workshop

Technology Showcase Guide (Jennifer DeCamp, Showcase Organizer)

TAUS Post-Editing Guidelines (created in partnership with CNGL):

• general post-editing guidelines for “good enough” and “human translation level” post-editing
• pricing post-editing work and
• measuring post-editors’ productivity.