From contact@mtmarathon2010.info Tue Nov 10 18:25:21 2009 From: MT Marathon 2010 Organising Committee To: air-l@lists.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Call for Participation in the Fourth Machine Translation Marathon Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:22:35 +0000 Message-ID: <85C16B5B-0836-4EF3-B3E2-8D82D7EB6B07@mtmarathon2010.info> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============7818837799605916672==" --===============7818837799605916672== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable CALL FOR PARTICIPATION The Machine Translation Marathon 2010, organised by the National Centre for L= anguage Technology and the Centre for Next Generation Localisation at Dublin = City University on behalf of the EuroMatrixPlus Consortium, is the fourth in = a series of MT Marathons organised by the EU EuroMatrix and EuroMatrixPlus re= search projects on Machine Translation. The EuroMatrixPlus consortium invites= researchers, developers, students, and users of machine translation for part= icipation. The event will feature =E2=80=A2 Winter School classes on current methods in statistical MT with ha= nds-on lab sessions (for novices and beginners) =E2=80=A2 Research showcase (invited talks by leading researchers) =E2=80=A2 Presentation of new open source tools for MT (separate call for pa= pers will follow) =E2=80=A2 Work in small group on implementing new methods and features to im= prove open source MT tools (for more advanced researchers and developers) Where: Dublin City University, Ireland When: January 25-30, 2010 How: On-line Registration How much: Attendance is free of charge, but limited. For more information and online registration please go to http://mtmarathon20= 10.info The MT Marathon consists of several events taking place at the same place to = allow for free flow of thoughts and exchange of information and experience: a= "winter school" with associated lab lessons, invited research talks, present= ation of new open source machine translation tools. The winter school will offer lectures on: =E2=80=A2 Introduction to MT and MT evaluation =E2=80=A2 Word alignment =E2=80=A2 Phrase-based models and decoding =E2=80=A2 Tree-based models and decoding =E2=80=A2 Advanced topics in statistical machine translation Each lecture will accompanied by an afternoon lab session, in which participa= nts will implement basic methods or work through hands-on tutorials on instal= ling, training, and using statistical machine translation tool kits. The open source convention allows participants in small groups to work on pro= jects that advance existing machine translation tools, integrate new features= , find new uses for machine translation, etc. To give examples, recent projects included: =E2=80=A2 better search in machine translation ("cube pruning") =E2=80=A2 the implementation of a web page translation front end (web.cgi) =E2=80=A2 improving minimum error rate training =E2=80=A2 support authors who want to translate Wikipedia articles Participants are encouraged to propose projects that could be carried out in = small groups within the six days of Marathon. The main developers of the Mose= s and Joshua tool kits will attend the workshop, organise projects, and assis= t with extending these tool kits. Program Committee: Philipp Koehn Chris Callison-Burch Ventsislav Zhechev --===============7818837799605916672==--