[Corpora-List] 1st Call for papers: 6th Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation (WMT11)

[Philipp Koehn]

SIXTH WORKSHOP ON STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION
(co-located with EMNLP 2011, July 30-31, 2011, Edinburgh, UK)
http://www.statmt.org/wmt11/

*** CALL FOR PAPERS ***

We invite the submission of scientific papers on topics related to MT.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* word-based, phrase-based, syntax-based SMT
* 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

SHARED TASKS

The workshop will feature three shared tasks:
* a translation task
* a system combination task
* a tunable metric task

Separate emails will announce the details about the tasks.

PAPER SUBMISSION INFORMATION

Submissions will consist of regular full papers of 6-10 pages,
plus additional pages for references, formatted following the
EMNLP 2011 guidelines. Submission and review processes
will be handled electronically.

We encourage individuals who are submitting research papers
to evaluate their approaches using the training resources
provided by this workshop and past workshops, so that their
experiments can be repeated by others using these publicly
available corpora.

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper due date: April 22, 2011
Notification of acceptance: May 22, 2011
Camera-ready deadline: June 3, 2011
Workshop (following EMNLP): July 30-31, 2011

ORGANIZERS
Chris Callison-Burch (Johns Hopkins University)
Philipp Koehn (University of Edinburgh)
Christof Monz (University of Amsterdam)
Omar Zaidan (Johns Hopkins University)

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