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<DIV>Apologies for multiple postings<BR>Please distribute to
colleagues<BR><BR>===================================================================================<BR><BR>
Joint Workshop on<BR><BR> EXPLOITING SYNERGIES BETWEEN
INFORMATION RETRIEVAL AND MACHINE TRANSLATION (ESIRMT)<BR><BR>
and<BR><BR> HYBRID APPROACHES TO MACHINE TRANSLATION
(HyTra)<BR><BR> Co-located with EACL 2012 (<A
href="http://eacl2012.org/"
target=_blank>http://eacl2012.org/</A>)<BR> Avignon,
France<BR> April 23 and 24, 2012<BR><BR>
Deadline for paper submissions: February 2, 2012<BR><BR> <A
href="http://www-lium.univ-lemans.fr/esirmt-hytra"
target=_blank>http://www-lium.univ-lemans.fr/esirmt-hytra</A><BR><BR>
INVITED SPEAKERS:<BR><BR> ESIRMT: CHRISTOF
MONZ (University of Amsterdam)<BR>
HyTra: PHILIPP KOEHN (University of
Edinburgh)<BR><BR>===================================================================================</DIV>
<DIV><BR>This two-day workshop addresses two specific but related research
problems<BR>in computational linguistics.<BR><BR>The ESIRMT event (1st day) aims
at reducing the gap, both theoretical and<BR>practical, between information
retrieval and machine translation research <BR>and applications. Although both
fields have been already contributing to <BR>each other instrumentally, there is
still too much work to be done in<BR>relation to solidly framing these two
fields into a common ground of<BR>knowledge from both the procedural and
paradigmatic perspectives.<BR><BR>The HyTra event (2nd day) aims at sharing
ideas among researchers<BR>developing and applying statistical, example-based,
or rule-based <BR>machine translation systems and who wish to enhance their
systems <BR>with elements from the other approaches.<BR><BR>The joint workshop
will provide participants with the opportunity <BR>of discussing research
related to technology integration and system <BR>combination strategies at both
the general level of cross-language<BR>information access and the specific level
of machine translation<BR>technologies.<BR><BR>Contributions are to be organized
into two tracks, corresponding to <BR>ESIRMT and HyTra, respectively. Topics of
interest include, but are <BR>not limited to:<BR><BR>ESIRMT track:<BR><BR>*
machine translation and information retrieval hybridization<BR>* applications of
MT and IR hybrid systems<BR>* IR techniques integrated in MT systems<BR>* MT
techniques integrated in IR systems<BR>* any kind of innovative approach
exploiting synergies between MT and IR<BR>* machine learning techniques for
ranking<BR><BR>HyTra track:<BR><BR>* ways and techniques of MT
hybridization<BR>* architectures for the rapid development of hybrid MT
systems<BR>* hybrid systems dealing with underresourced languages and/or
with<BR> morphologically rich languages<BR>* using linguistic
information (morphology, syntax, semantics) to enhance<BR>
statistical MT<BR>* bootstrapping rule-based systems from corpora<BR>* hybrid
methods in spoken language translation<BR>* extraction of dictionaries from
parallel and comparable corpora<BR>* machine learning techniques for hybrid
MT<BR>* heuristics for limiting the search space in hybrid MT<BR>* alternative
methods for the fair evaluation of the output of different<BR> types
of MT systems<BR>* system combination approaches<BR>* open source tools and free
language resources for hybrid MT<BR><BR><BR>SUBMISSION
INSTRUCTIONS<BR><BR>Authors are invited to submit papers on original and
previously unpublished<BR>work. Formatting should be according to EACL
2012 specifications using LaTeX <BR>or MS-Word style files, see <A
href="http://eacl2012.org/information-for-authors/index.html"
target=_blank>http://eacl2012.org/information-for-authors/index.html</A>
<BR>(paper length: up to 9 pages plus an extra page for references). Reviewing
of <BR>papers will be double-blind, so the submissions should not reveal the
authors' <BR>identity.<BR><BR>Submission is electronic in PDF format using the
START submission system at<BR><BR><A
href="https://www.softconf.com/eacl2012/ESIRMT-HyTra/"
target=_blank>https://www.softconf.com/eacl2012/ESIRMT-HyTra/</A><BR><BR>Double
submission policy: Parallel submission to other meetings or publications <BR>are
possible but must be immediately notified to the workshop contact person
<BR>(see below).<BR><BR>Authors of accepted papers will be invited to present
their research at the<BR>workshop. The papers will be published in the
electronic workshop proceedings. <BR>These will be part of the EACL proceedings,
published by ACL. They will also <BR>be made available online via the ACL
Anthology.<BR><BR><BR>IMPORTANT DATES<BR><BR>February 2, 2012: Paper
submissions due<BR>February 24, 2012: Notification of acceptance<BR>March
9, 2012: Camera ready papers due<BR>April 23-24, 2012: Workshop in
Avignon<BR><BR><BR>ORGANIZERS<BR><BR>Contact person: Marta R. Costa-jussà
(e-mail: <A href="mailto:marta.ruiz@barcelonamedia.org"
target=_blank>marta.ruiz@barcelonamedia.org</A>)<BR><BR>ESIRMT: Marta R.
Costa-jussà (Barcelona Media Innovation Center), Patrik<BR>Lambert (University
of Le Mans), Rafael E. Banchs (Institute for Infocomm
<BR>Research)<BR><BR>HyTra: Reinhard Rapp (Universities of Mainz and Leeds),
Bogdan Babych<BR>(University of Leeds), Kurt Eberle (Lingenio GmbH), Tony
Hartley <BR>(Toyohashi University of Technology and University of Leeds),
<BR>Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds), Martin Thomas (University of
Leeds)<BR><BR><BR>PROGRAMME COMMITTEE<BR><BR>Jordi Atserias, Yahoo! Research ,
Barcelona, Spain<BR>Bogdan Babych, University of Leeds, UK<BR>Sivaji
Bandyopadhyay, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India<BR>Núria Bel, Universitat
Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain<BR>Pierrette Bouillon, ISSCO/TIM/ETI, University
of Geneva, Switzerland<BR>Chris Callison-Burch, Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, USA<BR>Michael Carl, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark<BR>Oliver
Culo, ICSI, University of California, Berkeley, USA<BR>Kurt Eberle, Lingenio
GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany<BR>Andreas Eisele, Directorate-General for
Translation, European <BR> Commission, Luxembourg<BR>Marcello
Federico, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy<BR>José A. R. Fonollosa,
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain<BR>Mikel Forcada,
University of Alicante, Spain<BR>Alexander Fraser, Institute for Natural
Language Processing (IMS),<BR> Stuttgart, Germany<BR>Johanna Geiß,
Lingenio GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany<BR>Mireia Ginesti-Rosell, Lingenio GmbH,
Heidelberg, Germany<BR>Silvia Hansen-Schirra, FTSK, University of Mainz,
Germany<BR>Tony Hartley, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan, and
University <BR> of Leeds, UK<BR>Gareth Jones, Dublin City
University, Ireland<BR>Min-Yen Kan, National University of Singapore<BR>Udo
Kruschwitz, University of Essex, UK<BR>Yanjun Ma, Baidu Inc. Beijing,
China<BR>José B. Mariño, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain<BR>Maite
Melero, Barcelona Media Innovation Center, Barcelona, Spain<BR>Haizhou Li,
Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore<BR>Reinhard Rapp, University of
Mainz, Germany, and University of Leeds, UK<BR>Paul Schmidt, Institut for
Applied Information Science, Saarbrücken, Germany<BR>Uta Seewald-Heeg, Anhalt
University of Applied Sciences, Köthen, Germany<BR>Nasredine Semmar, CEA
LIST,<SPAN class=st> Fontenay-aux-Roses Cedex,</SPAN> France<BR>Serge Sharoff,
University of Leeds, UK<BR>Wade Shen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge, USA<BR>Fabrizio Silvestri, Instituto de Scienza e Tecnologia
del'Informazione,<BR> Pisa, Italy<BR>Harold Somers, CNGL, Dublin
City University, Ireland<BR>Anders Søgaard, University of Copenhagen,
Denmark<BR>Martin Thomas, University of Leeds, UK<BR>Jörg Tiedemann, University
of Uppsala, Sweden<BR>Zygmunt Vetulani, University of Poznan, Poland<BR><BR
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