[Corpora-List] HLT/NAACL-2003 Workshop CFP: Building and Using Parallel Texts: Data Driven Machine Translation & Beyond

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Date: Mon Feb 10 2003 - 17:50:43 MET

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                          C A L L F O R P A P E R S

                       Building and Using Parallel Texts:
                    Data Driven Machine Translation and Beyond

                           An HLT-NAACL 2003 Workshop
                               Edmonton, Alberta
                             May 31 or June 1, 2003

                          http://www.cs.unt.edu/~rada/wpt

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    The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for researchers working on
    problems related to the creation and use of parallel text. Recent events
    have demonstrated once again the importance of inter-language
    communication, and reinforce the need for advances in machine translation
    (MT) and multi-lingual processing tools.

    The workshop will be centered around the problem of building and using
    parallel corpora, which are vital resources for efficiently deriving
    multi-lingual text processing tools. In addition to regular papers, the
    workshop also includes a shared task that will result in a comparative
    evaluation of word alignment techniques.

    We invite submissions of papers addressing any of the following issues:

    - Construction of parallel corpora, including the automatic identification
    and harvesting of parallel corpora from the Web.
    - Methods to evaluate the quality of parallel corpora and word alignments
    - Tools for processing parallel corpora, including automatic sentence
    alignment, word alignment, phrase alignment, detection of omissions and
    gaps in translations, and others
    - Using parallel corpora for data driven Machine Translation
    - Using parallel corpora for the derivation of language processing tools
    in new languages
    - Using parallel corpora for automatic corpora annotation
    - Language learning applied to parallel corpora
    - Translation memory systems as a source of aligned corpora

    While we invite submissions addressing any of the above topics, or related
    issues, we particularly welcome work involving parallel corpora addressing
    languages with scarce resources.

    We expect to make arrangements with a journal in Natural Language
    Processing or Computational Linguistics for a special issue that will
    include selected papers from this workshop.

    Invited Speaker:
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    Elliot Macklovitch, University of Montreal

    Shared Task:
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    All researchers who have a word alignment system available are invited
    to participate in the shared task, individually or as part of a team.

    Participants in the shared task will be provided with common sets of
    training data, consisting of Romanian-English and French-English parallel
    texts. Participants will be given approximately one month to train their
    systems with this data, and then previously held out test data will be
    released. Participants will run their alignment system on this test data
    and submit their results, which will be evaluated using a common set of
    metrics. See the workshop website for details regarding the shared task.

    Submission format:
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    Submissions should consist of regular full papers of max. 7 pages,
    formatted following the NAACL 2003 guidelines. In addition, teams
    participating in the word alignment shared task are invited to submit
    short papers (max. 4 pages) describing their systems and/or evaluation
    methodology.

    Send your submission (a ps or pdf file), prepared for anonymous review,
    to both:

    Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas, rada@cs.unt.edu
    and
    Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota, Duluth, tpederse@d.umn.edu

    Important dates:
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    Deadline for regular paper submissions: March 10
    Deadline for results submissions: March 25 (shared task)
    Deadline for short paper submissions: April 1 (shared task)
    Notification of acceptance for regular papers: April 1
    Deadline for camera-ready papers: April 10

    Organisation Committee:
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    Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas
    Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota, Duluth

    Program Committee:
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    Lars Ahrenberg, Linkoping University
    Nicoletta Calzolari, University of Pisa
    Tim Chklovski, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Mona Diab, University of Maryland
    Ulrich Germann, Information Sciences Institute
    Daniel Gildea, University of Pennsylvania
    Maria das Gracas Volpe Nunes, University of Sao Paulo
    Nancy Ide, Vassar College
    Lucia Helena Machado Rino, Federal University of Sao Carlos
    Eduard Hovy, University of Southern California / Information Sciences Institute
    Philippe Langlais, University of Montreal
    Elliot Macklovitch, University of Montreal
    Daniel Marcu, University of Southern California / Information Sciences Institute
    Dan Melamed, New York University
    Magnus Merkel, Linkoping University
    Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton
    Hermann Ney, RWTH Aachen
    Franz Och, Information Sciences Institute
    Kemal Oflazer, Sabanci University
    Kishore Papineni, IBM
    Jessie Pinkham, Microsoft Research
    Andrei Popescu-Belis, ISSCO/TIM/ETI University of Geneva
    Florence Reeder, MITRE
    Philip Resnik, University of Maryland
    Antonio Ribeiro, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy
    Michel Simard, University of Montreal
    Harold Somers, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
    Arturo Trujillo, Canon Research Centre Europe
    Jean Veronis, University of Provence
    Clare Voss, Army Research Lab
    Yorick Wilks, University of Sheffield



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