<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div>(apologies for cross-posting)</div><div><br></div><div><strong></strong><br></div><div><strong>Quality Translation: Where Are We Now, and Where Are We Going?</strong></div>
<div><a href="http://www.qt21.eu/launchpad/content/eamt2014" target="_blank">http://www.qt21.eu/launchpad/content/eamt2014</a></div>
<div>Sunday 15th June 2014 in Dubrovnik Croatia</div><div><br></div><div>Workshop at the 17th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT) 2014</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>ABOUT QTLAUNCHPAD</div>
<div>====================</div><div>QTLaunchPad [<a href="http://www.qt21.eu/launchpad/" target="_blank">http://www.qt21.eu/launchpad/</a>] is a European Commission-funded project which is preparing a large-scale
research and innovation initiative focusing on quality translation
technology for the 21st century. This effort is of interest to the whole MT community, and it involves a
variety of stakeholders, including academics, researchers, technology
developers and integrators, translation buyers, professional translators
and language service providers. </div><div><br></div><div>QTLaunchPad has developed tools and resources to drive forward the fight against MT quality barriers, such as the Multidimensional Quality Metrics (MQM, a new shared and flexible paradigm for human and machine translation quality evaluation and annotation), QuEst (an open-source tool for MT quality estimation) and DELiC4MT (an open-source toolkit for diagnostic MT evaluation).</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>WORKSHOP AIMS</div><div>================</div><div>
As part of the ongoing engagement and dissemination activities,
QTLaunchPad is organising a workshop supported by EAMT which will take
place immediately before the Seventeenth Annual EAMT Conference in
Dubrovnik, Croatia [<a href="http://hnk.ffzg.hr/eamt2014/" target="_blank">http://hnk.ffzg.hr/eamt2014/</a>] on Sunday 15th June 2014. </div><div><br></div><div>The main aims of this workshop are to present the tools and technologies
developed by QTLaunchPad, elicit feedback from (potential) users, and
discuss issues revolving around the central concern of quality
translation, so that we can exchange opinions on where we are now in
this respect, and discuss ways forward as to where we are (or should be)
going next.</div><div><br></div><div>Special emphasis will be laid on predictive, diagnostic and
semi-automatic approaches to translation quality evaluation, exploring
the possibilities for bringing closer together the evaluation of human
and machine translation. The
participants will have the opportunity to learn about the innovative
applications of the MQM, QuEst and DELiC4MT directly from the
researchers who have developed these tools within QTLaunchPad, in close
collaboration with representatives from the translation and localisation
industry.</div><div><br></div><div>The workshop programme
includes talks given by high-profile speakers with academic and
industrial backgrounds, who will share their substantial expertise on
several key aspects of quality translation. </div><div><br></div><div>* Bogdan Babych (University
of Leeds)</div><div>* Christian Federmann (Microsoft)</div><div>* Lucia Specia (University of
Sheffield)</div><div>* Jost Zetzsche (International Writers' Group)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>REGISTRATION</div><div>==============</div><div>Participation is free, but workshop participants must register in advance via the EAMT 2014 Conference website at <a href="http://hnk.ffzg.hr/eamt2014/registration.html" target="_blank">http://hnk.ffzg.hr/eamt2014/registration.html</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>For more information and talk abstracts, please visit <a href="http://www.qt21.eu/launchpad/content/eamt2014" target="_blank">http://www.qt21.eu/launchpad/content/eamt2014</a>
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