<div dir="ltr"><b><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">MT</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Marathon</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> 2014 and Open Source Convention</span></b><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<a href="http://www.statmt.org/mtm14" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">http://www.statmt.org/mtm14</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Organized and sponsored by MosesCore EU project (</span><a href="http://www.mosescore.eu/" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">http://www.mosescore.eu</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">), Machine Translation </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Marathon </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">2014 is a week-long gathering of machine translation </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">researchers, developers, students and users. It features:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">MT</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> Lectures and Labs covering the basics and tutorials</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Invited talks from experienced researchers and practitioners</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Technical Talks about open source tools</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Hacking Projects to advance tools or research in one week</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The Machine Translation </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Marathon</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> 2014, MTM2014, will take place in</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<font face="arial, sans-serif" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Trento, Italy in September 8--13th, 2014. It is organised by the the Human Language Technology group of the Fondazione Bruno Kessler in Trento.</font><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The registration is now open. </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">It's free, but strictly limited to 100 people. For</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">more information, see: </span><a href="http://www.statmt.org/mtm14" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">http://www.statmt.org/mtm14</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </span><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b>GRANT FOR NEW STUDENTS</b></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">
Similarly to the past editions, we are pleased to be able to offer up to 6 bursaries to</font><br><font face="arial, sans-serif">
enable students new to the field to attend the marathon. For more information, see:</font><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="http://www.statmt.org/mtm14/index.php?n=Main.StudentsGrants" target="_blank">http://www.statmt.org/mtm14/index.php?n=Main.StudentsGrants</a><br>
</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Applications should be submitted to the local organisers (<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:18px;text-align:justify">mtm2014 AT list DOT fbk DOT eu</span>) by *<b>July 13th</b>*.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b>CALL FOR PAPERS</b></div><div><br><font face="arial, sans-serif">The MT Marathon will again host an Open Source Convention to advance the state of the art in Machine Translation. We invite developers of open source tools to present their work and submit a paper of up to 10 pages that describes the underlying methodology and includes instructions on how to use the tools.</font><br>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">We are looking for stand-alone tools and extensions of existing tools, such as the Moses open source system. Accepted papers will be presented during the MT Marathon and published in the Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics, <a href="http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/pbml.html" target="_blank">http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/pbml.html</a>.<br>
<br>Possible Paper Topics:<br><br>- Training of Machine Translation models<br>- Machine Translation decoders<br>- Tuning of Machine Translation systems<br>- Evaluation of Machine Translation<br>- Visualisation, annotation or debugging tools<br>
- Tools for human translators<br>- Interfaces for web-based services or APIs<br>- Extensions of existing tools<br>- Other tools for Machine Translation<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br>
</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b>I</b>mportant Dates:<br><br></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Grant Request: July 13, 2014<br></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Paper submission: July 17, 2014 (please, not</font>ify Ondrej Bojar in advance about your intention to submit a paper <font face="arial, sans-serif">)</font><br>
<font face="arial, sans-serif">Notification: July 31, 2014</font><br><font face="arial, sans-serif">Camera-ready: August 7, 2014</font></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Deadline for Registration: August 31, 2014<br>Presentations: September 8--13, 2014 (MT Marathon in Trento)<br><br>Instructions for authors and full details are available at the web page <a href="http://www.statmt.org/mtm14" target="_blank">http://www.statmt.org/mtm14</a>.<br>
<br><br>Looking forward to seeing you in Trento!</div></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">the MTM 2014 organizers</div></div></div>