The Third Symposium on Statistical Machine Translation (SSMT-2007)
Call for papers
August 12-13, 2007, Harbin
http://mitlab.hit.edu.cn/ssmt2007.html
Following the successes of the Symposiums on SMT in 2005 and later in 2006,
the Third Symposium on SMT (SSMT-2007) will be held in Harbin, Heilongjiang,
China during August 12-13, 2007.
In this symposium, we focus on the statistical modeling of translation
between Chinese and English, which involves the analysis of parallel corpora,
the automatic construction of machine translation systems and the evaluation
of the system performance. Nevertheless the impact of other technologies like
rule based method and example based method in so-called “hybrid machine
translation system” will also be investigated in detail.
In addition to soliciting research papers, the symposium is also featured
by a shared task: the word alignment and the translation between Chinese
and English.
Therefore, two types of submissions are invited:
1) technical papers on related issues, and
2) participants in any track of the shared task.
Technical Paper
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
Word-based, phrase-based, syntax-based, semantic-based approaches on SMT
Various parallel corpus processing techniques,
e.g. annotation, word alignment, structure alignment
Training algorithms for SMT
Decoding algorithms for SMT
Incorporation of rule-based and/or example-based MT with SMT
Evaluation measures of MT
Shared Task
The symposium organizers will provide common test sets for the following
three tasks:
Word alignment for Chinese English parallel corpus
Chinese-English machine translation
English-Chinese machine translation
Participants may submit results for any or all of the evaluation tasks.
A more detailed description of the shared task (including information
about the test and training corpora and the evaluation measures) is
available from the SSMT-2007 website (http://mitlab.hit.edu.cn/ssmt2007.html).
Submission Information
Submissions will consist of regular full papers of max. 8 pages in A4 size,
providing abstracts, key words, author names, affiliations, post addresses
and email addresses. The paper can be prepared either in Chinese or English,
but the paper written in Chinese should provide an English abstract.
All papers will be submitted electronically in Word or PDF format
(fonts must be plugged in PDF so that the papers can displayed on different
computers) to [EMAIL PROTECTED], containing SSMT-2007 in the
subject of the e-mail.
The paper accepted for presentation at the symposium cannot have been
published in any other journals or presented at any other meeting with
publicly available published proceedings. The accepted paper may be
recommended to publish in the Journal of Chinese Information Processing.
Important Dates
* June 30, 2007: Deadline for paper submissions
* July 15, 2007: Notification
* July 25, 2007: Deadline for camera-ready versions
* July 15, 2007: Test data issue
* July 20, 2007: Result submission due
* July 25, 2007: Evaluation result issue
Related details in technical program, registration and accommodation of the
symposium will be soon announced in the website.
Working Language: Chinese and English
Organized by
Harbin Institute of Technology
Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Conference Chair
Sheng Li, Harbin Institute of Technology
Program Committee
Chengqing Zong, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Le Sun, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Qun Liu, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Tiejun Zhao, Harbin Institute of Technology
Xiaodong Shi, Xiamen University
Organization Committee
Dakun Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Dequan Zheng, Harbin Institute of Technology
Jiadong Sun, Harbin Institute of Technology
Le Sun, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Muyun Yang, Harbin Institute of Technology
Tiejun Zhao, Harbin Institute of Technology
Yongzeng Xue, Harbin Institute of Technology
CONTACT
Dequan Zheng ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Le Sun ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Muyun Yang ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Tiejun Zhao ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
LIU Qun (http://mtgroup.ict.ac.cn/~liuqun)
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