[Corpora-List] DEADLINE EXTENDED: Special issue of 'Machine Translation' on Free/Open-Source Machine Translation

[Felipe Sánchez Martínez]

Apologies for multiple posting

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION INTENT EXTENDED: June 30, 2010

Call for papers:
Machine Translation journal Special Issue on "Free/Open-Source Machine 
Translation" [http://www.computing.dcu.ie/~mforcada/mtj-si-fosmt.html]

Machine Translation  ISSN 0922-6567
Editor-in-Chief: Andy Way
http://www.springer.com/computer/artificial/journal/10590

Guest editors:

Mikel L. Forcada (Dublin City University and Universitat d'Alacant)
Felipe Sánchez-Martínez (Universitat d'Alacant)

Rationale
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The free/open-source software philosophy has been embraced by many 
machine translation (MT) practitioners, as demonstrated by the fact that 
over the last five years a number of free/open-source MT systems and 
resources have been released (http://www.fosmt.org). Furthermore, there 
have been conferences and workshops focused on open-source developments 
for MT such as the four MT Marathons held until now 
(http://www.mtmarathon2010.info), the first International Workshop on 
Free/Open-Source Rule-Based MT held in November 2009 
(http://xixona.dlsi.ua.es/freerbmt09/), the seminal OSMaTran workshop on 
Open-Source MT held on September 2005 at the Tenth MT Summit 
(http://www.torsimany.ua.es/), or the open-source-themed 3rd Workshop on 
Example-Based Machine Translation 
(http://computing.dcu.ie/~mforcada/ebmt3/).

The benefit of having free/open-source MT systems is twofold: on one 
hand, open-source developments allow the reproducibility of experiments, 
a key point in the advance of any scientific field. On the other hand, 
they make it easier for end users to benefit from the latest advances in 
the field.

Inspired by the successful open-source systems presented at the 
conferences and workshops mentioned above, and by the strong belief that 
the future of machine translation is in the development of 
free/open-source MT systems, we propose to bring together in this 
special issue papers describing the leading free/open source MT systems 
in existence.

Scope
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This special issue is dedicated to free/open-source machine translation 
systems (rule-based, example-based, statistical), where free/open-source 
means that the system uses a licence that is either a free licence as 
defined by the Free Software Foundation 
(http://gnu.org/licenses/license-list.htm), or an open-source licence as 
defined by the Open Source Initiative (http://opensource.org/licenses/).

Contributions on approaches which still achieve performance levels below 
the state of the art may be suitable for inclusion in this issue, 
provided that they stem from sound directions with clear potential for 
further developments.

Submission guidelines
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* Authors should follow the "Instructions for Authors" available on the 
MT Journal 
website:http://www.springer.com/computer/artificial/journal/10590
* Submissions must be limited to 15 pages (including references) Papers
should be submitted online directly on the MT journal's submission 
website: http://www.editorialmanager.com/coat/default.asp, indicating 
this special issue in "article type"


Important dates
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* Deadline for 'Submission Intent' e-mail: JUNE 30, 2010 - contributors 
must send an email with the abstract of the submission to 
special-issue-fosmt (at) dlsi (dot) ua (dot) es
* Deadline for submissions: July 31, 2010
* Notification to the authors: October 15, 2010
* Deadline for final version: December 15, 2010
* Publication: 2011

-- 
Felipe Sánchez Martínez
Departamento de Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos
Universidad de Alicante, E-03071 Alicante (Spain)
Tel.: +34 965 903 400, ext: 2966 Fax: +34 965 909 326
http://www.dlsi.ua.es/~fsanchez

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