AMTA Workshop on Translation and Social Media
(TSM 2012)
Second Call for Papers
November 1st, 2012
San Diego, CA, USA
http://www.eu-bridge.eu/tsm_amta2012.php
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--------------- The Workshop ---------------
During the last couple of years, user generated content on the World Wide Web
has increased significantly. Users post status updates, comments, news and
observations on services like Twitter; they communicate with networks of
friends through web pages like Facebook; and they produce and publish audio and
audio-visual content, such as comments, lectures or entertainment in the form
of videos on platforms such as YouTube, and as Podcasts, e.g., via iTunes.
Nowadays, users do not publish content mainly in English anymore, instead they
publish in a multitude of languages. This means that due to the language
barrier, many users cannot access all available content. The use of machine and
speech translation technology can help bridge the language barrier in these
situations.
However, in order to automatically translate these new domains we expect
several obstacles to be overcome:
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Speech recognition and translation systems need to be able to rapidly adapt to rapidly changing topics as user generated content shifts in focus and topic.
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Text and speech in social media will be extremely noisy, ungrammatical and will not adhere to conventional rules, instead following its own, continuously changing conventions.
At the same time we expect to discover
new possibilities to exploit social media content for improving speech recognition and translation systems in an opportunistic way, e.g., by finding and utilizing parallel corpora in multiple languages addressing the same topics, or by utilizing additional meta-information available to the content, such as tags, comments, key-word lists. Also, the network structure in social media could provide valuable information in translating its content.
The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers in the area of
machine and speech translation in order to discuss the challenges brought up by
the content of social media, such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube videos and
podcasts.
--------------- Call for Papers ---------------
We expect participants to submit discussion papers that argue for new research and techniques necessary for dealing with machine and speech translation in the domain outlined
above, as well as papers presenting results of related and potentially preliminary research that is breaking new ground.
--------------- Important Dates ---------------
· Full Paper submission extended (!) deadline: August 12th
· Acceptance/Rejection: August 29th
· Camera Ready Paper: September 5th
·Workshop: November 1st
--------------- Organizing Committee ---------------
· Chairs: Satoshi Nakamura (NAIST, Japan) and Alex Waibel (KIT, Germany)
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Program Chairs: Graham Neubig (NAIST, Japan), Sebastian Stüker (KIT, Germany), and Joy Ying Zhang (CMU-SV, USA)
· Publicity Chair: Margit Rödder (KIT, Germany)
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