Fifteenth MT Summit Conference (Hosted by AMTA)

Event Notification Type: 
Call for Papers
Location: 
Hyatt Regency Miami Hotel
Friday, 30 October 2015 to Tuesday, 3 November 2015
State: 
Florida
Country: 
USA
City: 
Miami
Contact: 
For Research Track: Yaser Al-Onaizan, William Lewis
For Commercial Track: Steve Richardson and Mike Dillinger
For Government Track: Jen Doyon
Submission Deadline: 
Monday, 29 June 2015

MT Summit XV

The Fifteenth MT Summit Conference
Hosted by AMTA:
The Association for Machine Translation in the Americas

Hyatt Regency Miami Hotel, Miami, Florida
October 30 - November 3, 2015

http://www.amtaweb.org/mt-summit-xv/

PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT and CALL FOR PAPERS and PRESENTATIONS

The Fifteenth MT Summit conference, hosted on behalf of the
International Association for Machine Translation (IAMT) by the
Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA) will be held
at the Hyatt Regency Miami Hotel in Miami Florida, from Friday, October
30 through Tuesday, November 3, 2015. MT Summit XV is collocated and
will take place immediately prior to the 56st Annual Conference of the
American Translators Association (ATA), also taking place at the Hyatt
Regency, November 4-7. The two conferences are coordinating program
content around joint topics of interest. These are designed to deepen MT researchers' and developers' understanding of the needs of the commercial translation industry and human translators, while also fostering translators'
understanding of modern MT technology and the role of advanced
translation automation in enterprise globalization and commercial
translation processes.

In addition to a research track, the main MT Summit conference program
will also include presentation tracks for government and commercial
users of MT and a "Technology Showcase" of commercial and research-stage
MT technology. Tutorials and workshops will be held on Friday, October
30 and on Tuesday, November 3.

Alon Lavie
General Chair, MT Summit XV
President, International Association for Machine Translation (IAMT)

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Call for MT Research Papers at MT Summit XV

Contacts: Yaser Al-Onaizan, William Lewis (mtresearchers [at] amtaweb.org)

MT Summit XV solicits original research papers that will advance the
field of Machine Translation. We seek submissions across the entire
spectrum of MT-related research activity. Submissions must be
unpublished, and in English.

Important dates:
Submission deadline: Monday June 29
Notification of acceptance: Monday, August 3
Final “camera-ready” versions: Monday, September 7

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Advances in various MT paradigms: data-driven, rule-based, and hybrids
- MT applications and embedding: translation/localization aids,
speech-to-speech, speech-to-text, OCR, MT for communication (chats,
blogs, social networks), multilingual applications, etc.
- Technologies for MT deployment: quality estimation and domain adaptation
- MT in special settings: low resources, massive resources, high volume,
low computing resources
- Human factors in MT and user interfaces for MT
- Linguistic resources for MT: dictionaries, terminology banks, corpora
- MT evaluation techniques and evaluation results
- Empirical studies on translation data

If you have research software that you would like to show, you may also
consider submitting a proposal for the MT Summit Technology Showcase.
See the “Call for MT Technology Demonstrations and Exhibits” on the
conference website. [Coming Soon]

Submission Instructions:
Papers must not exceed 12 (twelve) pages plus 4 (four) pages for
references. All papers should follow the formatting instructions
included with the style files, and should be submitted in PDF. Latex,
PDF and MS Word style files will be available soon: amta2014.latex.zip
mtsummit2015.dotx mtsummit2015.pdf

To allow for blind reviewing, please do not include author names and
affiliations within the paper and avoid obvious self-references.

Papers must be submitted to the START system by 11:59 pm PDT (GMT – 7
hours), Monday June 29, 2015.

Multiple Submissions:
Papers presented at MT Summit XV must represent new work that has not
been previously published. It is the responsibility of the author(s) to
inform the program chairs of any potential problem with respect to this
requirement. Authors submitting a similar paper both to MT Summit XV and
another conference or workshop must inform the program chairs by email
(mtresearchers [at] amtaweb.org), specifying to which other conference or
workshop they are submitting their work. If the paper is accepted and
presented at MT Summit XV, then it must be withdrawn from other
conferences and workshops.

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Call for Commercial MT User and Translator Presentations at MT Summit XV

Contacts: Steve Richardson and Mike Dillinger
(commercialmtusers [at] amtaweb.org)

The Commercial Users and Translators track will focus on how MT helps
individual translators, Language Service Providers, and enterprise users
deliver their products and services more effectively. Submissions should
report on the use of MT to support business goals and serve customer
needs in commercial settings by integrating it with other processes and
technologies.

Example MT use cases include supplying on-demand localization, providing
technical support information in multiple languages, and enabling global
consumer-to-consumer transactions. Example products and services include
MT integration with translator productivity tools, cloud-based MT
services for integration with other web and mobile applications, and
customization and deployment of MT engines for specific needs. See more
possible topics below.

Important dates:
Submissions due: Monday, June 29
Notification of acceptance: Monday, July 13
Final “camera-ready” versions due: Monday, August 31

Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:
- Use of MT as a translator productivity tool: benefits, challenges,
training requirements
- Methods for obtaining and using post-editor productivity data
- Quality evaluation and pricing methods for MT post-editing services
- Integrating MT into the localization program lifecycle
- Integrating MT with source content analysis and classification tools
- Integrating MT with web and mobile applications, such as social media
- Integrating MT into CAT tools
- Use of MT for publishing “noisy” source content types (user generated
content, consumer–to-consumer communications, support web sites)
- Static and real-time domain adaptation and change management of MT
systems in commercial deployments
- Use of MT to address global enterprise “big data” requirements such as
web analytics
- Use of MT for cross-language search
- Use of MT in crowd-sourced translation environments
- Business applications of speech-to-speech MT
- Return on Investment (ROI) analysis of MT in commercial settings

What to submit:
Please submit a 250 to 500-word abstract describing your presentation to
the Commercial MT Users Chairs (commercialmtusers [at] amtaweb.org) by 11:59
pm PDT (GMT – 7 hours), Monday, June 29, 2015.

If you have any questions, you can ask the Program Chairs at this same
email address.

Ideal presentations will describe how MT helps to address a specific
business challenge, with an objective assessment of its strengths and
weaknesses for that particular challenge, supported by quantitative
measures.

Submissions should not contain commercial solicitations of specific
tools. If you have original software that you would like to show, you
may also consider submitting a proposal for free space in the MT Summit
Technology Showcase. See the “Call for MT Technology Demonstrations and
Exhibits” on the conference website [coming soon].

Publication:
Please indicate whether you intend to submit your presentation for
publication in the MT Summit XV Conference Proceedings. Publication in
the Conference Proceedings is not a requirement, but we strongly suggest
that you make your presentation available so other people can learn from
your experiences.
If you want to have your presentation published as part of the
Proceedings, it is preferred that you format it according to the
Research track submission guidelines (See Call for MT Research Papers
for details). However, slide decks or extended abstracts may also be
accepted.

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Call for Government MT User Presentations at MT Summit XV

Contact: Jen Doyon (governmentmtusers [at] amtaweb.org)

Government users are encouraged to contribute to MT Summit 2015 by
submitting proposals for this year’s conference that pertain to the
research, development and operational use of MT and MT-related
technologies in government settings.

Important dates:
Submission deadline: Monday July 13
Notifications of acceptance: Monday August 27
Final “camera-ready” versions: Monday September 7

Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:
- Use of MT as a translator tool
- Use of MT as an analyst tool
- Use of MT in chats, blogs and social networks
- Non-traditional uses of MT
- MT post-editing
- MT evaluation
- MT research and development
- MT case studies
- Linguistic resources for MT
- MT tool integration

What to submit:
Submissions should be 250-500 word abstracts. The following should
accompany each abstract submission:
Presentation Title
Presenter Name
Representing Organization
Email Address
Phone Number

All accepted submissions will be allotted 30 minute time slots. While
not mandatory, presenters wishing to have their submissions published in
the MT Summit Proceedings are required to produce papers in accordance
with the MT Research Track Submission Instructions found in the Call for
MT Research Papers. Presenters are advised to obtain the broadest level
of release of their presentations and papers in their approval/release
process in order to facilitate sharing and distribution.

If you have original software that you would like to show, you may also
consider submitting a proposal for the MT Summit technology showcase.
See the “Call for MT Technology Demonstrations and Exhibits” on the
conference website. [Coming soon.]

How to submit:
Please email your abstract to the Government MT Users Chair
(governmentmtusers [at] amtaweb.org) by Monday, July 13, 2015.