HMT 2012 - Hybrid Machine Translation Workshop

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Deadline: March 22, 2012 | Date: September 03, 2012

Venue/Country: Brno, Czech Republic

Updated: 2012-03-01 12:53:01 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Brno, Czech Republic, 3 September 2012

http://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2012/conf_workshop.html

The MT Workshop is organized by the Faculty of Informatics,

Masaryk University, Brno, in cooperation with the PRESEMT EU

project Consortium. The MT Workshop is a satellite workshop of

the Text, Speech and Dialog Conference.

Venue: Brno, Czech Republic

THE SUBMISSION DEADLINES:

March 15 2012 Submission of abstracts

March 22 2012 Submission of full papers

Submission of abstract serves for better organization of the review

process only - for the actual review a full paper submission is

necessary.

HYBRID MACHINE TRANSLATION

Interest in flexible and adaptable MT systems, based on the

language-independent hybrid methods, whose principles ensure easy

portability to new language pairs has led us to organizing

an MT Workshop in the framework of the TSD Conference 2012. These

methods attempt to overcome well-known problems of some

MT approaches, e.g. bilingual corpora compilation or the

laborious creation of the new rules per language pair. We also

want to address the issue of effectively managing multilingual

content and would welcome interesting suggestions in the

direction of a language-independent machine-learning-based

methodology.

The key aspects that should be touched at the MT Workshop involve

among others syntactic phrase-based modelling, pattern

recognition approaches (such as extended clustering) or

techniques towards the development of a language-independent

analysis. These aspects are intended to be of a hybrid nature,

combining linguistic processing with the positive aspects of the

corpus-based approaches, such as SMT and EBMT.

The need for easy amenability to new language pairs and

relatively inexpensive, readily available language resources as

well as bilingual lexica should be touched too. Modelling of the

translation context on phrases can improve the translation

quality so it should be considered too. Producing phrases via

a semi-automatic and language-independent process of

morphological and syntactic analysis may remove the need for

compatible NLP tools per language pair.

Another relevant aspect to which the attention has to be paid is

a parallelisation of the main translation processes since their

investigation may help to reach a fast, high-quality translation

system. Furthermore, the optimisation and personalisation of the

system parameters via automated processes (such as GAs or swarm

intelligence) is an issue which deserves to be investigated in

any case.

One of the points relevant for MT systems is a user adaptability

and user feedback with appropriate integrated interactive

interfaces. Such systems can be easily customised to both new

language pairs and specific sublanguages.

TOPICS

Topics of the MT Workshop include all themes of machine

translation (with stress on hybrid aspects of MT).

The workshop is organized in cooperation with the PRESEMT EU project

Consortium, submissions from other EU machine translation and other

projects are more than welcomed.

Papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly

encouraged.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

George Tambouratzis, Greece (chair)

Bjorn Gamback, Sweden

Adam Kilgarriff, GB

Karel Pala, Czech Republic

Paul Schmidt, Germany

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

George Tambouratzis

Institute for Lnaguage and Speech Processing, Greece

PRESEMT Machine Translation System

FORMAT OF THE WORKSHOP

The MT Workshop program will include presentation of invited papers,

oral presentations, and poster session.

As a part of the main TSD 2012 Conference, social events including

a trip in the vicinity of Brno will allow for additional informal

interactions.

TSD SERIES

TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in

both spoken and written language processing from all over the world.

Proceedings of TSD form a book published by Springer-Verlag in their

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. TSD Proceedings

are regularly indexed by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation

Index. Moreover, LNAI series are listed in all major citation databases

such as DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC or COMPENDEX.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

The MT Workshop submissions will undergo two separate review processes

- the best papers which will succeed in both review processes (by the

TSD 2012 Conference PC and MT Workshop 2012 PC) will be published in

the TSD 2012 Springer Proceedings, all other accepted MT Workshop

papers will be published in a separate MT Workshop proceedings

with ISBN.

Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages

formatted in the LNCS style (see below). Those accepted will be

presented either orally or as posters. The decision about the

presentation format will be based on the recommendation of the

reviewers. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the

on-line form accessible from the conference website, MT Workshop

submissions have to tick "MT Workshop review" check box in the form.

Papers submitted to the MT Workshop must not be under review by any

other conference or publication during the workshop review cycle, and

must not be previously published or accepted for publication

elsewhere.

As reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors'

names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the

author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...",

should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously

showed (Smith, 1991) ...". Papers that do not conform to the

requirements above are subject to be rejected without review.

The authors are strongly encouraged to write their papers in TeX

or LaTeX formats. These formats are necessary for the final

versions of the papers that will be published in the Springer

Lecture Notes. Authors using a WORD compatible software for the

final version must use the LNCS template for WORD and within the

submit process ask the Proceedings Editors to convert the paper

to LaTeX format. For this service a service-and-license fee of

CZK 1500 will be levied automatically.

The paper format for review has to be either PDF or PostScript file

with all required fonts included. Upon notification of acceptance,

presenters will receive further information on submitting their

camera-ready and electronic sources (for detailed instructions on

the final paper format see

http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html#Proceedings).

IMPORTANT DATES

March 15 2012 Submission of abstracts

March 22 2012 Submission of full papers

May 15 2012 Notification of acceptance

May 31 2012 Final papers (camera ready) and registration

September 3 2012 MT workshop date

September 4-7 2012 TSD 2012 Conference date

Submission of abstracts serves for better organization of the review

process only - for the actual review a full paper submission is

necessary.

The accepted workshop contributions will be published in proceedings

that will be made available to participants at the time of the

conference.

OFFICIAL LANGUAGE

The official language of the conference is English.

ACCOMMODATION

The organizing committee will arrange discounts on accommodation in

the 3-star hotel at the conference venue. The current prices of the

accommodation will be available at the conference website.

ADDRESS

All correspondence regarding the conference should be

addressed to

Ales Horak, MT Workshop, TSD 2012

Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University

Botanicka 68a, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic

phone: +420-5-49 49 18 63

fax: +420-5-49 49 18 20

email: tsd2012tsdconference.org

The official TSD 2012 homepage is: http://www.tsdconference.org/

LOCATION

Brno is the second largest city in the Czech Republic with a

population of almost 400.000 and is the country's judiciary and

trade-fair center. Brno is the capital of South Moravia, which is

located in the south-east part of the Czech Republic and is known

for a wide range of cultural, natural, and technical sights.

South Moravia is a traditional wine region. Brno had been a Royal

City since 1347 and with its six universities it forms a cultural

center of the region.

Brno can be reached easily by direct flights from London, Moscow,

Saint Petersburg, Eindhoven, Rome and Prague and by trains or

buses from Prague (200 km) or Vienna (130 km).

For the participants with some extra time, nearby places may

also be of interest. Local ones include: Brno Castle now called

Spilberk, Veveri Castle, the Old and New City Halls, the

Augustine Monastery with St. Thomas Church and crypt of Moravian

Margraves, Church of St. James, Cathedral of St. Peter&Paul,

Cartesian Monastery in Kralovo Pole, the famous Villa Tugendhat

designed by Mies van der Rohe along with other important

buildings of between-war Czech architecture.

For those willing to venture out of Brno, Moravian Karst with

Macocha Chasm and Punkva caves, battlefield of the Battle of

three emperors (Napoleon, Russian Alexander and Austrian Franz

- Battle by Austerlitz), Chateau of Slavkov (Austerlitz),

Pernstejn Castle, Buchlov Castle, Lednice Chateau, Buchlovice

Chateau, Letovice Chateau, Mikulov with one of the largest Jewish

cemeteries in Central Europe, Telc - a town on the UNESCO

heritage list, and many others are all within easy reach.