Conf: Medar MT Evaluation on English-to-Arabic

[Thierry Hamon]

Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:37:14 +0100
From: Olivier Hamon <hamon at elda.org>
Message-ID: <4B22834A.7030204 at elda.org>
X-url: http://www.medar.info


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Call for participation - Medar MT Evaluation on English-to-Arabic

The MEDAR consortium is pleased to announce the organisation of two
evaluation campaigns for English-to-Arabic MT. These campaigns will be
open to external participants. Please note that Arabic is the target
language and NOT the source.

The goal of the MEDAR project (http://www.medar.info), supported by
the European Commission ICT programme, is to establish a network of
partner centres working on best practices for Arabic language and
speech processing and dedicated to promoting Arabic Human Language
Technologies.

The first evaluation campaign will be held late February 2010, in
coordination with the participants. Test data will be provided to
participants according to an evaluation methodology and process
inspired from TC-STAR, CESTA or MT-NIST approaches.

The second evaluation campaign will be held late June 2010. In
addition to the test data, Language Resources for development and/or
training will be also provided by the MEDAR consortium for the
participants.

In both evaluations, automatic metrics as well as human judges will be
used. Results will be shared with all participants.

Please send your expressions of interest to Olivier Hamon
(hamon_at_elda_dot_org) as well as your comments or questions. This
will not represent any obligation or commitment on your part but will
help us estimate the number of potential participants and plan the
details (dates, human judges, etc.) of the evaluation campaigns.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Olivier Hamon (on behalf of the MEDAR consortium)

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