<div class="gmail_quote"><br><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span> CALL FOR PAPERS:</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span> OPEN SOURCE TOOLS FOR MACHINE TRANSLATION</div>
<div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>The Fifth Machine Translation Marathon, which will take place September</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>13-18 in Le Mans, France, is hosting an Open Source Convention to</div>
<div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>advance the state of the art in machine translation. The MT Marathon</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>is organised by the computer science laboratory of Le Mans (LIUM) and the</div>
<div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>University of Le Mans on behalf of the EuroMatrixPlus Consortium.</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>We invite developers of open source tools to present their work and</div>
<div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>submit a paper of up to 10 pages that (a) describes the underlying</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>methodology and (b) includes instructions how to use the tools.</div>
<div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>We are looking for stand-alone tools and extensions of existing tools,</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>such as the Moses open source systems. Accepted papers will be</div>
<div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>presented during the MT Marathon and published as a special issue of</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>the Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics (<a href="http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/pbml" target="_blank">http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/pbml</a>).</div>
<div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Possible topics:</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></div>
<div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>* training of machine translation models</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>* machine translation decoders</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>* tuning of machine translation systems</div>
<div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>* evaluation of machine translation</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>* visualization, annotation or debugging tools</div>
<div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>* tools for human translators</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>* interfaces for web-based services or APIs</div><div>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>* extensions of existing tools</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>* other tools for machine translation</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></div>
<div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>This is the third time that the MT Marathon will host the Open Source</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Convention. The papers from previous years are available online: <a href="http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/pbml-91-100.html" target="_blank">http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/pbml-91-100.html</a></div>
<div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Papers will be reviewed by two reviewers appointed by the program committee </div><div>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>e.g. papers which will be marked as the best by the reviewers (with no substantial </div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>modifications required) will be printed as usual in the PBML journal in time for the MT Marathon. </div>
<div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Others will be printed after requested modifications in the next PBML issue.</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></div><div>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Important dates:</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Deadline for paper submission: August 1 2010</div>
<div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Notification of acceptance: August 7 2010</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Camera-ready paper due: August 14 2010</div>
<div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Presentations: September 13-17 2010 (at the MT Marathon in Le Mans)</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Camera-ready (next issue) : 15 December 2010</div>
<div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Please send full non-anonymous submissions in PDF to Philipp Koehn <<a href="mailto:pkoehn@inf.ed.ac.uk" target="_blank">pkoehn@inf.ed.ac.uk</a>> and the full Xe(La)TeX source for technical pre-review to Ondřej Bojar <<a href="mailto:bojar@ufal.mff.cuni.cz" target="_blank">bojar@ufal.mff.cuni.cz</a>>.</div>
<div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Please use the PBML style files from <a href="http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/pbml-instructions.html" target="_blank">http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/pbml-instructions.html</a> </div><div>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>(follow the "short paper" track instructions).</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Program Committee</div>
<div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Philipp Koehn</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Ondrej Bojar</div>
<div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Holger Schwenk</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Loïc Barrault</div><font color="#888888"><div><br></div>
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