[Corpora-List] MT Summit 2013, Nice, France.CFP:QTLaunchPad Workshop on User-Centric Machine Translation &

[Svetlana Sheremetyeva]

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QTLaunchPad Workshop on User-Centric Machine Translation &
Evaluation at MT Summit XIV, Nice, September 3rd, 2013 


Call for Papers 


With the uptake of MT in production workflows, the issues of usability and realistic assessment of MT quality have led to increased calls for user-centric approaches to evaluation, accessibility, and effective usage. Users and their feedback are vital at many key points in the MT process: ranging from sourcing and using data, developing systems, evaluating them and their output, through to end-user consumption. 


Users come in many forms: translators, post-editors, developers, and evaluators, and the quality of the tools, methods, and resources available to them are of critical importance, especially in the context of high-quality MT. There is a growing need for appropriate tools and resources to support MT in this regard to go beyond the crude scores of one-size-fits-all standard automatic metrics and resource-heavy human evaluation. A top desideratum is to enhance the diagnostic value of MT evaluation in order to help developers fine-tune and optimise the performance of their systems and to prepare the systems for actual usage in production environments. 


This full-day workshop consists of an opening keynote by Philipp Koehn (University of Edinburgh), followed by a thematic series of presentations around the topics listed below. We then focus on the Barriers to High-Quality Machine Translation, a central concern of the QTLaunchPad project. This forms the basis of an interactive panel discussion comprised of invited representatives from industry, the translation community, researchers, government users, and the project consortium. 


Topics of Interest: 




User-centric measures and usability studies, e.g. methods of MT evaluation, cognitive effort, user experience and performance.

Crowd and cloud ventures, e.g. crowd-sourced data, cloud-based translation and evaluation. 

Corpora for MT development and evaluation, e.g. availability, preprocessing, quality, interoperability, annotation, error corpora and test suites, self-learning, adaptive MT, feedback mechanisms. 

Diagnostic MT evaluation - human in the loop, e.g. identification and auto-correction of recurrent errors, learning from human evaluation.

Fully and semi-automated error solutions, e.g. below threshold medium-quality translations, identifying and overcoming quality barriers. 


Schedule: 









Call for Papers

1st of March, 2013


Submission of Papers

14th of June, 2013


Author Notifications

5th of July, 2013


Final/Camera-Ready Version

1st of August, 2013


QTLaunchPad Workshop

3rd of September, 2013


MT Summit Main Conference

4-6th of September, 2013


Submissions: EasyChair 
Contact: stephen.doherty at dcu.ie 


Programme Committee: 
Hala Almaghout, CNGL Dublin City University 
Silvia Bernardini, University of Bologna at Forlì 
Lynne Bowker, University of Ottawa 
Adriano Ferraresi, University of Bologna at Forlì 
Markus Foti, Directorate General for Translation 
Federico Gaspari, CNGL Dublin City University 
Josef van Genabith, CNGL Dublin City University 
Declan Groves, CNGL Dublin City University 
Dorothy Kenny, SALIS Dublin City University 
Qun Liu, CNGL Dublin City University 
Arle Lommel, Deutsche Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz 
Joss Moorkens, CNGL Dublin City University 
Maja Popovic, Deutsche Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz 
Johann Roturier, Symantec 
Antonio Toral, CNGL Dublin City University 
Hans Uszkoreit, Deutsche Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz 
Eros Zanchetta, University of Bologna at Forlì 
Federico Zanettin, University of Perugia 
Ventsislav Zhechev, Autodesk 


Workshop Organisers: 
Stephen Doherty, CNGL Dublin City University 
Lucia Specia, University of Sheffield 
David Vilar, Deutsche Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz
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