CALL FOR PAPERS: OPEN SOURCE TOOLS FOR MACHINE TRANSLATION
The Third Machine Translation Marathon, which will take place January 26-31 in Prague, Czech Republic, is hosting a Open Source Convention to advance the state of the art in machine translation.
We invite developers of open source tools to present their work and submit a paper of up to 10 pages that (a) describes the underlying methodology and (b) instructions how to use the tools. We are looking for stand-alone tools and extensions of existing tools, such as the Moses open source systems. Accepted papers will be presented during the MT Marathon and published as a special issue of the Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics (http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/pbml/).
Possible topics:
- training of machine translation models
- machine translation decoders
- tuning of machine translation systems
- evaluation of machine translation
- visualization, annotation or debugging tools
- tools for human translators
- interfaces for web-based services or APIs
- extensions of existing tools
- other tools for machine translation
Program will be selected from papers submitted by a program committee that will ask additional reviewers from the PBML's editorial board for at least two reviews per paper.
Important dates:
- Deadline for paper submission: December 12, 2008
- Notification of acceptance: December 19, 2008
- Camera-ready paper due: January 5, 2009
- Presentations: January 26-30, 2009 (at the MT Marathon in Prague)
Please send non-anonymized full-version submissions in .pdf format to Philipp
Koehn pkoehn-at-inf.ed.ac.uk. Please use the PBML style instructions
(follow the "short paper" track) or download the PBML style package
directly.
Program Committee
- Philipp Koehn (chair)
- Chris Callison-Bruch
- Jan Hajič