2nd Workshop on Neural Machine Translation and Generation (WNMT 2018) - First Call for Papers
We are pleased to announce the 2nd Workshop on Neural Machine Translation and Generation, which will be held at ACL 2018 in Melbourne (Australia) on 19th or 20th of July 2018.
Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/site/wnmt18/
Shared task: https://sites.google.com/site/wnmt18/shared-task
IMPORTANT DATES
All Deadlines are 11:59 PM Pacific time.
8 April 2018: Paper Submission Deadline
7 May 2018: Notification of Acceptance
28 May 2018: Camera-ready Papers Due
19 or 20 July 2018: (TBD) Workshop Date
TOPICS OF INTEREST
The workshop is broad in scope and invites original research contributions on all topics where neural networks are involved in the field of machine translation. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:
* Neural models for machine translation, generation, summarization, simplification
* Analysis of the problems and opportunities of neural models for all of these tasks
* Methods for incorporating linguistic insights: syntax, alignment, reordering, etc.
* Handling resource-limited domains
* Utilizing more data: monolingual, multilingual resources
* Multi-task learning
* Neural translation and generation models for mobile devices
* Visualization of sequence-to-sequence models
* Beyond sentence-level processing
* Beyond maximum-likelihood estimation
SHARED TASK
New to the workshop this year will be a shared task on “Efficient NMT”. The aim of this task is to focus on not only accuracy but memory efficiency or translation speed, which are paramount concerns in practical deployment settings. The workshop will provide a set of baselines for the task, and reward systems that help push forward the Pareto frontier of both efficiency and accuracy. Each participant in the shared task will be invited to submit a 4 to 6 page system description paper (plus references) through the Softconf system that follows the ACL formatting requirements.
For full details on the shared task please refer to its website: https://sites.google.com/site/wnmt18/shared-task
PAPER SUBMISSIONS
We are soliciting submissions in three categories of papers: full workshop submissions, extended abstracts, and cross-submissions. All submissions will be made through Softconf (https://www.softconf.com/acl2018/NMT/).
Full Workshop Paper
Authors should submit a long paper of up to 8 pages, with up to 2 additional pages for references, following the ACL 2018 formatting requirements (see the ACL 2018 Author Guidelines for reference: http://acl2018.org/call-for-papers/#acl-author-guidelines). The reported research should be original work. All papers will be presented as posters, and a few selected papers may also be presented orally at the discretion of the committee. All accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings, which will be archived by the ACL Anthology (http://aclweb.org/anthology/). Papers in this track should be anonymized.
Extended Abstracts
Preliminary ideas or results may also be submitted as extended abstracts, with a length of 2 to 4 pages plus references. Similarly to full papers, these abstracts will follow the ACL formatting requirements, be submitted through Softconf, and be reviewed by the program committee. Accepted abstracts will be presented as posters, but not be included in the workshop proceedings. Abstracts in this track should be anonymized, and should put "This is a submission to the extended abstract track." at the end of the abstract submitted to softconf (it does not need to be noted in the paper itself).
Cross-submissions
We also accept cross-submissions that have already been published or presented in other venues for consideration as poster presentations, which will allow authors who have presented at other venues to discuss with and get feedback from NMT researchers. These submissions will not appear in the proceedings, and there is no restriction on the format of the submissions (in other words, it is OK to submit a paper from a different venue as-is). The papers in this track will be submitted through softconf to the cross-submission track and reviewed by the program committee. Papers in this track do not need to be anonymized, and should put "This is a submission to the cross-submission track, presented at [name of other venue]." at the end of the abstract submitted to softconf (it does not need to be noted in the paper itself).
Best Paper Awards
From the submitted full workshop papers, between zero and two papers will be selected for best paper awards at the discretion of the program committee.
INVITED SPEAKERS
Jacob Devlin Google
Rico Sennrich Edinburgh
Jason Westin Facebook
ORGANIZERS
Alexandra Birch Edinburgh
Andrew Finch Apple
Thang Luong Google
Graham Neubig CMU
Yusuke Oda NAIST