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Joint Workshop on Exploiting Synergies between Information Retrieval and Machine Translation (ESIRMT) and Hybrid Approaches to Machine Translation (HyTra) Co-located with EACL 2012 (http://eacl2012.org) Avignon, France April 23 and 24, 2012 Deadline for paper submissions: January 27, 2012 http://www-lium.univ-lemans.fr/esirmt-hytra ========================================================================= This two-day workshop addresses two specific but related research problems in computational linguistics. The ESIRMT event (1st day) aims at reducing the gap, both theoretical and practical, between information retrieval and machine translation research and applications. Although both fields have been already contributing to each other instrumentally, there is still too much work to be done in relation to solidly framing these two fields into a common ground of knowledge from both the procedural and paradigmatic perspectives. The HyTra event (2nd day) aims at sharing ideas among researchers developing and applying statistical, example-based, or rule-based machine translation systems and who wish to enhance their systems with elements from the other approaches. The joint workshop will provide participants with the opportunity of discussing research related to technology integration and system combination strategies at both the general level of cross-language information access and the specific level of machine translation technologies. Contributions are to be organized into two tracks, corresponding to ESIRMT and HyTra, respectively. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: ESIRMT track: * machine translation and information retrieval hybridization * applications of MT and IR hybrid systems * IR techniques integrated in MT systems * MT techniques integrated in IR systems * any kind of innovative approach exploiting synergies between MT and IR * machine learning techniques for ranking HyTra track: * ways and techniques of MT hybridization * architectures for the rapid development of hybrid MT systems * hybrid systems dealing with underresourced languages and/or with morphologically rich languages * using linguistic information (morphology, syntax, semantics) to enhance statistical MT * bootstrapping rule-based systems from corpora * hybrid methods in spoken language translation * extraction of dictionaries from parallel and comparable corpora * machine learning techniques for hybrid MT * heuristics for limiting the search space in hybrid MT * alternative methods for the fair evaluation of the output of different types of MT systems * system combination approaches * open source tools and free language resources for hybrid MT Submissions should follow EACL 2012 format, as specified in http://eacl2012.org/information-for-authors/index.html (paper length: up to 9 pages plus references). Reviewing of papers will be double-blind, so the submissions should not reveal the authors’ identity. Important Dates January 27, 2012: Paper submissions due February 24, 2012: Notification of acceptance March 9, 2012: Camera ready papers due April 23-24, 2012: Workshop in Avignon Organizers Contact person: Marta R. Costa-jussà (e-mail: marta.r...@barcelonamedia.org ) ESIRMT: Marta R. Costa-jussà (Barcelona Media Innovation Center), Patrik Lambert (University of Le Mans), Rafael E. Banchs (Institute for Infocomm Research) HyTra: Reinhard Rapp (Universities of Mainz and Leeds), Bogdan Babych (University of Leeds), Kurt Eberle (Lingenio GmbH), Tony Hartley (Toyohashi University of Technology and University of Leeds), Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds), Martin Thomas (University of Leeds) Invited Speakers Philipp Koehn (University of Edinburgh) TBA Programme Committee Jordi Atserias, Yahoo! Research Bogdan Babych, University of Leeds, CTS Sivaji Bandyopadhyay, Jadavpur University, Kolkata Núria Bel, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona Pierrette Bouillon, ISSCO/TIM/ETI, University of Geneva Chris Callison-Burch, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore Michael Carl, Copenhagen Business School Oliver Culo, ICSI, University of California, Berkeley Kurt Eberle, Lingenio GmbH, Heidelberg Andreas Eisele, Directorate-General for Translation, European Commission, Luxembourg Marcello Federico, Fondazione Bruno Kessler. Mikel Forcada, University of Alicante Alexander Fraser, Institute for Natural Language Processing (IMS), Stuttgart Johanna Geiß, University of Cambridge and Lingenio GmbH Mireia Ginesti-Rosell, Lingenio GmbH, Heidelberg Silvia Hansen-Schirra, FTSK, University of Mainz Tony Hartley, Toyohashi University of Technology Gareth Jones, Dublin City University Min-Yen Kan, National University of Singapore Udo Kruschwitz, University of Essez Yanjun Ma, Baidu Inc. Haizhou Li, Institute for Infocomm Research Reinhard Rapp, University of Mainz, FTSK Paul Schmidt, Institut for Applied Information Science, Saarbrücken Uta Seewald-Heeg, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, Köthen Serge Sharoff, University of Leeds, CTS Wade Shen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Fabrizio Silvestri, Instituto de Scienza e Tecnologia dell'Informazione Harold Somers, CNGL, Dublin City University Anders Sөgaard, University of Copenhagen Martin Thomas, University of Leeds, CTS Jörg Tiedemann, University of Uppsala Zymunt Vetulani, University of Poznan _______________________________________________ Moses-support mailing list Moses-support@mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/moses-support
