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Following a decision by the EAMT Executive Committee in its June 7
meeting, the eligibillity requirements have been modified so that
the prize is now open to European, Middle-Eastern and North African
researchers that are not members of the EAMT.<br>
<br>
The European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.eamt.org">http://www.eamt.org</a>) is an organization that serves the growing
community of people interested in MT and translation tools,
including users, developers, and researchers of this increasingly
viable technology.<br>
The EAMT invites entries for its fifth EAMT Best Thesis Award for a
PhD or equivalent thesis on a topic related to machine translation.<br>
<br>
<b>Eligibility</b><br>
<br>
Researchers who<br>
• have submitted a PhD (or equivalent) thesis on a relevant topic
in an European, Northern African[1] or Middle Eastern[2] institution
within calendar year 2013,<br>
• have successfully obtained the PhD or equivalent degree, and<br>
• have not previously won a similar award,<br>
are invited to submit their theses to the EAMT for consideration. <br>
<br>
<b>Panel</b><br>
<br>
The submissions will be judged by a panel of experts who are EAMT
members and are appointed by the Executive Committee of the EAMT.<br>
<br>
<b>Selection Criteria</b><br>
<br>
Each thesis will be judged according to how challenging the problem
was, to how relevant the results are for machine translation as a
field, and to the strength of their impact in terms of scientific
publications.<br>
<br>
<b>Scope</b><br>
<br>
The scope of the thesis need not be confined to a technical area,
and applications are also invited from students who carried out
their research into commercial and management aspects of machine
translation.<br>
Possible areas of research might include:<br>
• development of machine translation or advanced
computer-assisted translation systems: software and resources<br>
• machine translation for less-resourced languages<br>
• the use of these systems in professional environments
(freelance translators, translation agencies, localisation, etc.)<br>
• the increasing impact of machine translation on
non-professional Internet users and its impact in communications,
social networking, etc.<br>
• machine translation and post-editing<br>
• spoken language translation<br>
• the integration of machine translation and translation memory
systems<br>
• the integration of machine translation software in larger IT
applications<br>
• the evaluation of machine translation systems in real tasks
such as those above<br>
• the cross-fertilisation between machine translation and other
language technologies<br>
<br>
Prize<br>
<br>
The winner will be announced by the end of March, 2014, and will
receive a prize of €500, together with a suitably-inscribed
certificate, and will receive free EAMT membership for two years. In
addition, the recipient of the award will be required to briefly
present their research at the Annual Conference of the European
Association for Machine Translation in June 2014 (venue to be
determined). In order to facilitate this, the EAMT will waive the
winner's registration costs, and will make available a travel
bursary of €200 to enable the recipient of the award to attend the
said conference.<br>
<br>
<b>Submission</b><br>
<br>
Should you wish to enter your thesis, please use the following link:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eamtbta2013">http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eamtbta2013</a> to submit a
single PDF file containing, in this order:<br>
• a 2-page summary of your thesis in English, containing:<br>
• your full contact details,<br>
• the name and contact details of your supervisor(s),<br>
• a copy of your CV in English (at most one page, plus a complete
list of publications directly related to the thesis)<br>
• an electronic copy of your thesis<br>
• optionally, an appendix with any other relevant information on
the thesis<br>
<br>
By submitting their work, authors<br>
• agree that, in case they are granted the award, any
subsequently published version of the thesis should carry the
citation "Winner of the Best Thesis Award 2013 of the European
Association for Machine Translation" and<br>
• acknowledge the right of the EAMT to publicize the granting of
the award.<br>
<br>
<b>Closing Date</b><br>
<br>
The closing date for submissions is December 31, 2013, 23:59 Central
European Time. No extensions will be granted.<br>
<br>
On behalf of Mikel L. Forcada, EAMT Secretary<br>
<br>
<br>
[1] Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia.<br>
[2] Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Palestine,
Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen.<br>
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