27.4171, Calls: Bhojpuri, Magahi, Maithili, Hindi, Urdu, Comp Ling, Translation/India

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Subject: 27.4171, Calls: Bhojpuri, Magahi, Maithili, Hindi, Urdu, Comp Ling, Translation/India

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Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 15:05:06
From: Anil Kumar Singh [aksingh.cse at iitbhu.ac.in]
Subject: GIAN Course on Machine Translation

Full Title: GIAN Course on Machine Translation 
Short Title: GIAN-MT-2016 

Date: 09-Dec-2016 - 15-Dec-2016
Location: Varanasi, U.P., India 
Contact Person: Anil Kumar Singh
Meeting Email: aksingh.cse at iitbhu.ac.in
Web Site: http://gian-mt.sanchay.co.in 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Translation 

Subject Language(s): Bhojpuri (bho)
                     Hindi (hin)
                     Magahi (mag)
                     Maithili (mai)
                     Urdu (urd)

Call Deadline: 10-Nov-2016 

Meeting Description:

There are several thousand languages in the world and there is a wealth of
knowledge and information in all these languages. To make this knowledge
available to all, it needs to be translated to other languages. There is only
a limited amount that can be translated by human translators. Machine
translation is translation of text from one language to another by computers.

There are two main approaches to MT. The first is rule-based and is inspired
from linguistic insights. The second is statistical MT, which is mainly based
on ideas from probability and statistics. There can also be a hybrid approach,
which combines these two approaches.

The purpose of this course will be to introduce in sufficient detail the
techniques for machine translation to those who have little or no background
in this area, but have some background in Computer Science or
languages/Linguistics. We will try to prepare the participants completing this
course to initiate or take part in building MT systems for their own (or
someone else's) languages. There will be emphasis on showing MT in practice,
not just in theory.

The whole course will consist of some seven lectures of around two or three
hours each. Each lecture will be followed by a two hour lab session. These
lectures and labs will be covered over a period of seven days. During the
course of their lectures, the instructors will refer to actual working MT
systems to provide context for the concepts presented in the class. Home
assignments can be given if the participants desire. Through labs, the
participants will be expected to get some hands on experience with building MT
systems, using both the approaches mentioned above.

Applications are invited for registration for the short-term (one week) course
titled ''Machine Translation: Theory and Practice''. You can participate if:

- You are an engineer or research scientist interested in language technology,
and want to know more about machine translation 
- You are a linguist or from language studies and want to find out how your
knowledge could be used for machine translation 
- You are a student or faculty member from an academic institution interested
in natural language processing or computational linguistics and realize the
importance of machine translation, but would like to learn more
- You want to get hands-on practice with machine translation

For registration, you need to first register at the GIAN website. Once you
have registered after paying the one time Rs. 500 fee for all GIAN courses you
may take, you can select this course specifically from the list given there.
After the deadline, we will shortlist the candidates and then you can confirm
your participation in this course.

We will announce later how the course fees have to be paid. Note that the
course fees have been reduced to enable wider participation. The new fees are:

- Participants from abroad : US $200
- Industry/Research Organizations: Rs. 15000
- Academic Institutions: Rs. 5000

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