Corpora: ACL-2001 Workshop on Data-Driven Machine Translation CFP

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                  WORKSHOP ON DATA-DRIVEN MACHINE TRANSLATION

                                  7 July 2001
                                Toulouse, France
                                                            
                  http://www.cs.unca.edu/~bruce/acl01/MT.html
                 
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    With the increased availability of online corpora, data-driven
    approaches have become central to the NL community. A variety of
    data-driven approaches have been used to help build Machine
    Translation systems -- example-based, statistical MT, and other
    machine learning approaches -- and there are all sorts of
    possibilities for hybrid systems. We wish to bring together proponents
    of as many techniques as possible to engage in a discussion of which
    combinations will yield maximal success in translation.

    We propose to center the workshop on Data Driven MT, by which we mean
    all approaches which develop algorithms and programs to exploit data
    in the development of MT, primarily the use of large bilingual corpora
    created by human translators, and serving as a source of training data
    for MT systems. The workshop will focus on the following topics:

    - statistical machine translation (modeling, training, search)
    - machine-learning in translation
    - example-based machine translation
    - acquisition of multilingual training data
    - evaluation of data driven methods (also with rule-based methods)
    - combination of various translation systems; integration of classical
      rule-based and data driven approaches
    - word/sentence alignment

    An especially important question that we wish to address is which
    techniques are best for each of the subparts of a complete MT system -
    e.g. learning grammars, building lexicons, parsing input data,
    determining transfer principles, generating target text, etc.

    WORKSHOP CHAIRS

             Jessie Pinkham, Microsoft Research jessiep@microsoft.com
             Kevin Knight, USC/ISI, knight@isi.edu
             Franz Josef Och, RWTH Aachen, och@cs.rwth-aachen.de

    INVITED SPEAKER

            Hermann Ney, RWTH Aachen

    PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

              Srinivas Bangalore, AT&T Research
              Ralf Brown, CMU
              Francisco Casacuberta, Polytechnic Univ. of Valencia
              Eugene Charniak, Brown University
              Ulf Hermjakob, USC/ISI
              Pierre Isabelle, Xerox Research Centre Europe
              Bob Moore, MSR
              Masaaki Nagata, NTT
              Norbert Reithinger, DFKI
              Philip Resnik, Univ. of Maryland
              Eiichiro Sumita, ATR
              Koichi Takeda, IBM Japan
              Enrique Vidal, Polytechnic Univ. of Valencia
              Stephan Vogel, Univ. of Kaiserslautern
              Hideo Watanabe, IBM TRL

    SUBMISSIONS

    Papers describing original work in the area of Data Driven Machine
    Translation should be submitted electronically in Postscript or PDF
    format to:

           Deborah Coughlin, mailto:deborahc@microsoft.com

    Submissions should follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings and
    should not exceed eight (8) pages, including references. We strongly
    recommend the use of ACL LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word Style
    files tailored for this year's conference. They are available from the
    ACL-2001 program committee Web-site at:
             
             http://acl2001.dfki.de/style/

    The paper should not include the authors' names and affiliations.
    As reviewing will be blind, the submission must be associated with an
    email containing the following information (ASCII text):

          TITLE: title of the paper
          AUTHORS: list of authors
          EMAIL: email of author for correspondence
          KEYWORDS: keywords, topic sub-areas, ...
          ABSTRACT: abstract of the paper

    IMPORTANT DATES

              Paper submissions 6 April 2001
              Notification of acceptance 27 April 2001
              Camera-ready copies due 16 May 2001
              Workshop dates 7 July 2001

    REGISTRATION

    The registration fee for the workshop will be posted at a later stage.
    The registration fee includes attendance of the workshop and a copy of
    workshop proceedings. Follow the registration instructions at the ACL
    site and indicate that you would like to attend the Data-Driven MT
    workshop.

    MORE INFORMATION

         http://www.cs.unca.edu/~bruce/acl01/MT.html



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