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Subject: 27.654, Confs: Comp Ling/Germany

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Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2016 10:36:12
From: Jörg Tiedemann [jorg.tiedemann at helsinki.fi]
Subject: First Conference on Machine Translation

 
FIRST CONFERENCE ON MACHINE TRANSLATION 
Short Title: WMT 

Date: 11-Aug-2016 - 12-Aug-2016 
Location: Berlin, Germany 
Contact: Barry Haddow 
Contact Email: bhaddow at inf.ed.ac.uk 
Meeting URL: http://www.statmt.org/wmt16 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

This conference focuses on statistical machine translation and features
various shared tasks related to the task of automatic translation and
evaluation of machine translation.

 This year's conference will feature ten shared tasks:

- A news translation task
- An IT domain translation task (New)
- A biomedical translation task (New)
- An automatic post-editing task
- A metrics task (assess MT quality given reference translation)
- A quality estimation task (assess MT quality without access to any
reference)
- A tuning task (optimize a given MT system)
- A pronoun translation task
- A bilingual document alignment task (New)
- A multimodal translation task (New) 

In addition to the shared tasks, the conference will also feature scientific
papers on topics related to MT. Topics of interest include, but are not
limited to:

- Word-based, phrase-based, syntax-based, semantics-based SMT
- Neural machine translation
- Using comparable corpora for SMT
- Incorporating linguistic information into SMT
- Decoding
- System combination
- Error analysis
- Manual and automatic method for evaluating MT
- Scaling MT to very large data sets
 






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