<br><div class="gmail_quote"><br>***** NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 12, 2012 *****<br><br>=================================================================<br><br> Joint Workshop on<br><br> EXPLOITING SYNERGIES BETWEEN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL <br>
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 12, 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>=================================================================<br><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>
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IMPORTANT DATES<br><br>February 12, 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>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 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), 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 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, Fontenay-aux-Roses Cedex, 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,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>
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