[Corpora-List] ACL-Workshop: DiscoMT (first call for papers)

[Joerg Tiedemann]

[apologies for cross posting]


ACL 2013 Workshop on Discourse in Machine Translation (DiscoMT)
Friday, August 9, 2013 - Sofia, Bulgaria


First call for papers


Over the past four years, there has been a resurgence of interest in
machine translation from the perspective of discourse, and in
discourse from the perspective of machine translation.  This includes
translating discourse phenomena that depend on more than just the
context of the current sentence or of n-grams to the left and/or
right; ensuring document-level consistency in the choice of lexical
items or referring forms or in document style or register; and
ensuring that source-language discourse relations between clauses
and/or sentences are also realized in the target text.

Given this renewed interest, we are pleased to invite paper
submissions to the ACL 2013 Workshop on Discourse in MT, to be held on
August 9, 2013 in Sofia.

The papers should focus on language processing techniques, whether
theoretically-inspired or empirical, which address one or more of the
discourse-level phenomena listed below, either in combination with MT,
or from a cross-lingual perspective.  We especially welcome papers
that propose methods and software which enhance the capabilities of MT
systems on discourse-level phenomena.  Papers assessing the importance
and origins of MT difficulties with discourse, including research and
commercial MT systems, are suitable as well.

The proposed workshop solicits submissions more particularly focused
on the following topics, but welcomes also submissions that link
discourse studies with machine translation in some other way.

- discourse processing in support of MT, including:
   o textual coherence, including anaphora, coreference, tense, aspect
and modality
   o textual cohesion, including lexical consistency
   o discourse structure, including appropriate use of connectives and
information structuring devices
   o topic structure
   o consistency in style and register
- MT techniques for obtaining document-level consistency and domain
adaptability;
- MT techniques for structured documents;
- methods and algorithms to handle discourse-level phenomena in MT
training and decoding;
- uses of MT in processing discourse-level phenomena;
- techniques for assessing the impact of discourse-level processing on
MT quality;
- quantitative studies on the impact of discourse-level phenomena on
current MT systems vs. discourse-aware ones.


Submission instructions

We solicit previously unpublished work, presented either as long or
short papers, following the ACL 2013 formatting guidelines available
at http://acl2013.org/site/call.html.  Long papers should have at most
8 pages of content, not including references.  Short papers are
limited to 4 pages of content, not including references.  There is no
constraint on the length of the reference list.  Both types of
submissions should be anonymous, i.e. do not disclose in any way the
identity of the author(s).  Papers must be submitted using the START
system at the URL indicated on the workshop's website.


Website: http://www.idiap.ch/workshop/DiscoMT/


Important dates

Submission deadline: April 26, 2013
Notification of acceptance: May 24, 2013
Final versions due: June 7, 2013
Workshop: August 9, 2013


Organizing Committee

Bonnie Webber (University of Edinburgh), chair
Ondrej Bojar (Charles University, Prague)
Chris Callison-Burch (Johns Hopkins University)
Marcello Federico (FBK-IRST, Trento)
Pierre Isabelle (NCRC Canada)
Katja Markert (University of Leeds), co-chair
Andrei Popescu-Belis (Idiap Research Institute), co-chair
Jörg Tiedemann (University of Uppsala), co-chair


Programme Committee

Trevor Cohn (University of Sheffield)
George Foster (NCRC Canada)
Dan Gildea (University of Rochester)
Liane Guillou (University of Edinburgh)
Christian Hardmeier (University of Uppsala)
Hitoshi Isahara (Toyohashi University of Technology)
Philipp Koehn (University of Edinburgh)
Thomas Meyer (Idiap Research Institute)
Hwee Tou Ng (National University of Singapore)
Michal Novak (Charles University Prague)
Maja Popovic (DFKI)
Jean Senellart (Systran)
Lucia Specia (University of Sheffield)
Sara Stymne (University of Uppsala)
Gregor Thurmair (Linguatec GmbH)
Sandrine Zufferey (Utrecht University)

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