[SRILM User List] Preliminary CFP: ACL 2013 Second Workshop on Hybrid Approaches to Translation (HyTra)

Sat Jan 26 09:30:09 PST 2013

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> *Second Workshop on Hybrid Approaches to Translation (HyTra)*
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> Co-located with _ACL 2013 <http://acl2013.org/site/>_
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> Sofia, Bulgaria
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> August 8, 2013
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> Deadline for paper submissions: April 30, 2013
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> _http://hytra.barcelonamedia.org/hytra__2013_ 
> <http://hytra.barcelonamedia.org/hytra2013>__
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> The Second Workshop on Hybrid Approaches to Translation (HyTra) 
> intends to further progress on the findings from the first edition 
> which was held (together with the ESIRMT workshop) as a joint 2-day 
> EACL 2012 workshop.
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> The aim of the HyTra workshop is to bring together and share ideas 
> among researchers developing statistical, example-based, or rule-based 
> translation systems and who enhance MT systems with elements from the 
> other approaches. Hereby one relevant focus will be on effectively 
> combining linguistic and data driven approaches (rule-based and 
> statistical MT). Another focus will be on hybridization in the context 
> of human translation.
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> We solicit contributions including but not limited to the following 
> topics:
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>  *
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>     ways and techniques of hybridization
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>  *
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>     architectures for the rapid development of hybrid MT systems
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>  *
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>     applications of hybrid systems
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>  *
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>     hybrid systems dealing with under-resourced languages
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>  *
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>     hybrid systems dealing with morphologically rich languages
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>  *
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>     using linguistic information (morphology, syntax, semantics) to
>     enhance statistical MT (e.g. with hierarchical or factored models)
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>  *
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>     using contextual information to enhance statistical MT
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>  *
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>     bootstrapping rule-based systems from corpora
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>  *
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>     hybrid methods in spoken language translation
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>  *
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>     extraction of dictionaries from parallel and comparable corpora
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>  *
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>     induction of morphological, grammatical, and translation rules
>     from corpora
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>  *
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>     machine learning techniques for hybrid MT
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>  *
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>     describing structural mappings between languages (e.g.
>     tree-structures using synchronous/transduction grammars)
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>  *
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>     heuristics for limiting the search space in hybrid MT
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>  *
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>     alternative methods for the fair evaluation of the output of
>     different types of MT systems (e.g. relying on linguistic criteria)
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>  *
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>     system combination approaches such as multi-engine MT (parallel)
>     or automatic post-editing (sequential)
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>  *
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>     open source tools and free language resources for hybrid MT
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> Contributions are to be organized into two tracks, corresponding to 
> short or long papers. Short paper submission must describe original 
> and unpublished work without exceeding five pages of content plus one 
> extra page for references. Characteristics of short papers include: a 
> small, focused contribution; work in progress; a negative result; an 
> opinion piece; an interesting application nugget. Long paper 
> submissions must describe substantial, original, completed and 
> unpublished work without exceeding eight pages of content plus two 
> extra pages for references.
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> *Submission Instructions*
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> Authors are invited to submit papers on original and previously 
> unpublished work. Formatting should be according to ACL 2013 
> specifications using LaTeX or MS-Word style files, see 
> _http://acl2013.org/site/call.html_. Reviewing of papers will be 
> double-blind, so the submissions should not reveal the authors' identity.
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> Submission is electronic in PDF format using the START submission 
> system at (URL to be announced in subsequent versions of this call)
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> Double submission policy: Parallel submission to other meetings or 
> publications are possible but must be immediately notified to the 
> workshop contact person (see below).
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> Authors of accepted papers will be invited to present their research 
> at the workshop. The papers will be published in the electronic 
> workshop proceedings. These will be part of the ACL proceedings, 
> published by ACL. They will also be made available online via the ACL 
> Anthology.
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>
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> *Important Dates*
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> April 30, 2013: Paper submissions due
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> May 24, 2013: Notification of acceptance
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> Jun 7, 2013: Camera ready papers due
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> August 8 or 9, 2013: Workshop in Sofia
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> *Organizers*
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> Marta R. Costa-jussà (Institute for Infocomm Research).
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> Reinhard Rapp (Universities of Aix-Marseille and Mainz),
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> Patrik Lambert (Barcelona Media Innovation Center),
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> Rafael E. Banchs (Institute for Infocomm Research),
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> Bogdan Babych (University of Leeds)
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> *Contact person: *Marta R. Costa-jussà (martaruizcostajussa at gmail.com 
> <mailto:martaruizcostajussa at gmail.com>)
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> *Invited Speaker*
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> TBA
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> *Programme Committee *
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> Alexey Baytin, Yandex, Moscow, Russia
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> Núria Bel, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
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> Pierrette Bouillon, ISSCO/TIM/ETI, University of Geneva, Switzerland
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> Michael Carl, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
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> Marine Carpuat, National Research Council, Canada
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> Josep Maria Crego, Systran, Paris, France
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> Oliver Culo, University of Mainz, Germany
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> Kurt Eberle, Lingenio GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany
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> Andreas Eisele, DGT (European Commission), Luxembourg
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> Marcello Federico, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy
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> Christian Federmann, Language Technology Lab, DFKI, Saarbrücken, Germany
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> Alexander Fraser, University of Stuttgart, Germany
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> José A. R. Fonollosa, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, 
> Spain
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> Tony Hartley, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan, and 
> University of Leeds, UK
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> Maxim Khalilov, TAUS, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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> Philipp Koehn, University of Edimburgh, UK
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> Kevin Knight, University of Southern Carlifornia, US
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> Udo Kruschwitz, University of Essex, UK
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> Yanjun Ma, Baidu Inc., Beijing, China
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> José B. Mariño, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
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> Maite Melero, Barcelona Media Innovation Center, Barcelona, Spain
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> Haizhou Li, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
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> Chris Quirk, Microsoft, USA
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> Paul Schmidt, Institute for Applied Information Science, Saarbrücken, 
> Germany
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> Anders Sogaard, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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> Uta Seewald-Heeg, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, Köthen, Germany
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> Nasredine Semmar, CEA LIST, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France
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> Wade Shen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
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> Serge Sharoff, University of Leeds, UK
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> George Tambouratzis, Institute for Language and Speech Processing, 
> Athens, Greece.
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> Jörg Tiedemann, University of Uppsala, Sweden
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> Dekai Wu, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong 
> Kong, China
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