Reminder: Call for applications for compute grants for Large-scale Multilingual Translation Task @WMT 21

Event Notification Type: 
Call for Participation
Abbreviated Title: 
FLORES 101: Call for applications for compute grants
Location: 
At the Sixth Conference on Machine Translation (WMT21)
Wednesday, 10 November 2021
Country: 
Dominican Republic
City: 
Punta Cana
Contact: 
The FLORES team
Angela Fan
Paco Guzman
Submission Deadline: 
Monday, 10 May 2021

We want to continue encouraging the research community to work on low-resource translation. launching a WMTlarge-scale multilingual machine translation shared task at WMT21. The evaluation campaign will start on June 4th, 2021.

Compute grants
We encourage people to apply for compute grants so that GPU compute is less of a barrier for translation research.

Applicants should submit a one-page proposal outlining their intended research, the languages for which they plan to submit a system and the total amount of requested compute credits. Compute credit grants winners will be announced by email by May 28, 2021 and the Credits will be made available at the start of the FLORES101 evaluation cycle.

Proposals should include

  • A brief summary of the project explaining tracks of the large scale translation shared task in which they wish to participate,
  • A description of techniques planned to be used and an expected number of compute credit hours expected to be consumed (optional).
  • Curriculum Vitae for the main point of contact for the application.
  • Organization (University/Lab) details

    Proposals should be online through this application form.

    Deadlines

  • Deadline to apply is May 10, 2021 Anywhere on Earth.
  • Notifications will be sent by email to selected applicants by May 28, 2021

    If you want to learn more, please read below for more details, and feel free to reach flores [at] fb.com out if you have any questions.