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Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2016 10:19:36
From: Karin Verspoor [karin.verspoor at unimelb.edu.au]
Subject: Shared Task on Biomedical Machine Translation at ACL WMT'16

 
Shared Task on Biomedical Machine Translation at ACL WMT'16 
Short Title: Biomedical MT @WMT'16 

Date: 11-Aug-2016 - 12-Aug-2016 
Location: Berlin, Germany 
Contact: Mariana Neves 
Contact Email: marianalaraneves at gmail.com 
Meeting URL: http://www.statmt.org/wmt16/biomedical-translation-task.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

We are pleased to announce a new shared task on biomedical machine translation
in the ACL First Conference on Machine Translation (WMT'16). This new task
aims to evaluate systems on the translation of
scientific publications for the the biological and health domains. The
documents were retrieved from the Scielo database of scientific publications
and the training data is already available. The biomedical translation task
will address the following language pairs:

- English-French and French-English - (health)
- English-Spanish and Spanish-English - (biological/health)
- English-Portuguese and Portuguese-English - (biological/health)

Please find more information (including access to the training set) on the
dedicated shared task page:
http://www.statmt.org/wmt16/biomedical-translation-task.html

Important dates:

- Release of training data: end of January 2016 (already available)
- Release of test data April, 2016
- Results submission deadline April, 2016
- Paper submission deadline May 8, 2016
- Notification of acceptance June 5, 2016
- Camera-ready deadline June 22, 2016

Best regards,

Mariana Neves (Hasso-Plattner Institute, Germany)
Antonio Jimeno Yepes (IBM Research Australia)
Aurélie Névéol (LIMSI, CNRS, France)
Karin Verspoor (The University of Melbourne, Australia)
 






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