MT Marathon 2024 Programme
Registration Desk
Collect your badge and login details:
- on Monday, 8.30 - 9.00 in front of room S9 (1st floor)
- throughout the week from the organizers
Programme
| Monday | September 2 | |
| 8.30 - 9.00 | Registration: in front of room S9 | |
| 9.00 | Opening session | |
| 9.30 - 11.00 | Machine Translation - introductory lecture | |
| S9 | Ondřej Bojar (Charles University) | |
| 11:00 | Coffee break | |
| 11.15 - 12.45 | Advances in Multilingual MT and Evaluation for Indian Languages | |
| S9, online | Raj Dabre (NICT) | |
| 14.30 | Project Proposals | |
| S9 | see and extend the live list of proposed projects | |
| Please prepare one or two slides to present the topic to everyone. | ||
| 15:30 | Coffee break | |
| 18.30 | Welcome event | |
| The Pitchers | ||
| Tuesday | September 3 | |
| 9.00 - 10.30 | Token(s) of Appreciation for BPE | |
| S9 | Vilém Zouhar (ETH Zürich) | |
| 10:30 | Coffee break | |
| 11.00 - 12.30 | Translation and Language Modeling with Pixels | |
| S9 | Elizabeth Salesky (JHU) | |
| 14.00 - 16.00 | Poster Session (with coffee) | |
| 1st Floor | everyone | |
| Wednesday | September 4 | |
| 9.00 - 10.30 | Large Language Models for Translation | |
| S9 | Ricardo Rei (Unbabel) | |
| 10:30 | Coffee break | |
| 11.00 - 12.30 | Language Model Decoding Beyond Beam Search | |
| S9 | Julius Cheng (University of Cambridge) | |
| 15:30 | Coffee break | |
| 16:30 | Project mid-week reports | |
| S9 | everyone | |
| 18.00 | Social event | |
| Letná beer garden | ||
| Thursday | September 5 | |
| 9.00 - 10.30 | Knowledge Distillation for Machine Translation | |
| S5 (2nd fl.) | Ona de Gibert, Joseph Attieh (University of Helsinki) | |
| 10:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 11.00 - 12.30 | Language Identification for Dataset Building | |
| S5 (2nd fl.) | Laurie Burchell (University of Edinburgh) | |
| 14.00 - 16.00 | Lab: Tower and EuroLLM + MBR Decoding | |
| TBA | Ricardo Rei (Unbabel) | |
| Friday | September 6 | |
| 9.00 - 10.30 | When Mistranslation Becomes Misinformation: Exploring Potential Risks of Machine Translation and Its Impact on End-Users | |
| S5 (2nd fl.) | Khetam Al Sharou (Dublin City University) | |
| 10:30 | Coffee break | |
| 11.00 - 12.30 | Speech Translation: From basics to recent advances | |
| S5 (2nd fl.) | Tsz Kin Lam (University of Edinburgh) | |
| Saturday | September 7 | |
| 10:30 | Coffee | |
| 11.00 - 12.30 | Project reports | |
| 12.30 - 14.00 | Lunch break | |
| 12.30 - 14.00 | Project reports, Closing (Part II, if needed; no coffee afterwards) |