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<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><BR>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><BR
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