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This is the Final call for participation for the MT shared tasks and research papers to the 10th Workshop on Asian Translation (WAT2023), workshop of MT-Summit 2023. Those who are working on machine translation, please join us.
IMPORTANT DATES
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July 14 - Shared Task Submission Deadline
July 14 - Research Paper Submission Deadline
July 21 - System Description Paper for Shared Tasks Submission Deadline
July 28 - Notification of Acceptance for Research Papers
July 28 - Review Feedback of System Description Papers
August 4 - Camera-ready Deadline (both Research and System Description Papers)
September 4 - Workshop Date
* All deadlines are calculated at 11:59PM UTC-12
Best regards,
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WAT2023
(The 10th Workshop on Asian Translation)
in conjunction with MT-Summit 2023
http://lotus.kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp/WAT/WAT2023
August 4, 2023 / Macau SAR, China
Following the success of the previous WAT workshops (WAT2014 -- WAT2022), WAT2023 will bring together machine translation researchers and users to try, evaluate, share and discuss brand-new ideas about machine translation. For the 10th WAT, we will include the following shared tasks:
* Restricted Translation task:
* Parallel Corpus Filtering task:
* Multimodal translation tasks:
Hindi Visual Genome: English --> Hindi
Malayalam Visual Genome: English --> Malayalam
Bengali Visual Genome: English --> Bengali
Ambiguous MS COCO: English <--> Japanese
Video Guided Ambiguous Subtitling: Japanese --> English
Khmer Speech Translation: Khmer --> English/French
* Document-level translation tasks:
ASPEC+ParaNatCom: English --> Japanese Scientific Paper
BSD Corpus: English <--> Japanese Business Scene Dialogue
* Indic tasks:
MultiIndicMT: 19 languages
* NICT-SAP:
Unstructured document translation: Hindi/Thai/Indonesian/Malay/Vietnamese <--> English
Structured document translation: Japanese/Chinese/Korean <--> English
* Patent task:
JPC3: English/Chinese/Korean <--> Japanese
* Non-repetitive Translation task
JIJI Corpus: Japanese --> English Newswire
In addition to the shared tasks, the workshop will also feature scientific papers on topics related to machine translation, especially for Asian languages. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- analysis of the automatic/human evaluation results in the past WAT workshops
- word-/phrase-/syntax-/semantics-/rule-based, neural and hybrid machine translation
- Asian language processing
- incorporating linguistic information into machine translation
- decoding algorithms
- system combination
- error analysis
- manual and automatic machine translation evaluation
- machine translation applications
- quality estimation
- domain adaptation
- machine translation for low resource languages
- language resources
************************* IMPORTANT NOTICE *************************
Participants of the previous workshop are also required to sign up to WAT2023
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ORGANIZERS
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- Toshiaki Nakazawa, The University of Tokyo, Japan
- Isao Goto, Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK), Japan
- Hidaya Mino, Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK), Japan
- Chenchen Ding, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan
- Raj Dabre, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan
- Anoop Kunchookuttan, Microsoft AI and Research, India
- Shohei Higashiyama, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan
- Hiroshi Manabe, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan
- Shantipriya Parida,Silo AI, Finland
- Ondřej Bojar, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
- Chenhui Chu, Kyoto University, Japan
- Akiko Eriguchi, Microsoft, USA
- Kaori Abe,Tohoku University, Japan
- Yusuke Oda, LegalForce, Japan
- Makoto Morishita, NTT, Japan
- Katsuhito Sudoh, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Japan
- Sadao Kurohashi, Kyoto University, Japan
- Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Indian Institute of Technology Patna (IITP), India
CONTACT
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wat-organizer@googlegroups.com