Deep MT 2016

Deep Machine Translation Workshop 2016

Lisbon, October 20-21, 2016

http://deepmt2016.di.fc.ul.pt

 

Call for papers

This is the second workshop on “Deep Machine Translation“, the first
being held in Prague in 2015
(https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/events/deep-machine-translation-workshop). Its
aim is to bring together researchers and students working on machine
translation approaches and technology using “deep understanding” (not
necessarily using Deep Neural Networks, as the name might suggest, but
certainly not excluding them either). Adding “more linguistics” has
long been considered as a possible way to boost quality of current,
mainly (PB)SMT-based systems. However, there are many ways to do so,
and it was felt a forum is needed where experience can be shared among
people working on such systems.

Papers on original and unpublished research are welcome on any of the
topics listed above in general, and specifically on any of the
following:

* General approaches to the use of linguistic knowledge for Machine Translation

* Contrast and comparison of Deep linguistic methods vs. Deep neural
  networks for MT

* Semantics for Machine Translation

* Combination of statistical and “manual” approaches to Machine
  Translation, hybrid systems

* Innovative use of manually built lexical resources in Machine
  Translation (monolingual, bilingual)

* Deep linguistic representation of meaning / semantics, including
  semantic graphs, logical representation, temporal and spatial
  representation and grounding

* Deep linguistic analysis and generation

* Joint linguistic and distributional modeling (analysis, generation, transfer)

* Analysis, generation and transfer using graph-based meaning representation

* Incorporating coreference, named entity recognition, words sense
  disambiguation, or any other linguistically motivated features into
  the MT chain

* Multilingual question-answering and CLIR approaches, including
  specific methods for query translation and query matching in a
  multilingual setting

* Evaluation methods for standard text translation, query translation,
and CLIR Schedule

 

Submissions

Submissions must be made through the easychair system at
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dmtw2016. Please see below for
the important dates.

 

Schedule

Call for papers released: May 30, 2016
Submission deadline: September 11, 2016
Workshop dates: October 20-21, 2016

 

Instructions for authors

Templates and Submission page (also for final manuscripts):

* Templates: http://nlx-server.di.fc.ul.pt/~nlx/online_deepmt2016/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/dmtw2016.zip

* Submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dmtw2016

The maximum submission length is 8 pages (A4), plus two extra pages
for references, following a one-column ACL-like format, as specified
below.

Papers shall be submitted in English. As the reviewing will be
double-blind, papers must be anonymized with regard to the authors
and/or their institution (no author-identifying information on the
title page nor anywhere in the paper), including referencing style as
usual. Authors should also ensure that identifying meta-information is
removed from files submitted for review. Papers must conform to
official DMTW 2015 style guidelines (see above in
templates). Submission and reviewing will be managed online by the
EasyChair system. The only accepted format for submitted papers is in
Adobe’s PDF.

Submissions must be uploaded on the EasyChair system by the submission
deadlines; submissions after that time will not be reviewed.
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dmtw2016

Papers that are being submitted in parallel to other conferences or
workshops must indicate this on the title page. Papers that contain
significant overlap with previously published work must also signal
that.

Papers will be published online by the time of the Workshop, assigned
an ISBN as regular proceedings published by the UFAL / Charles
University publishing house, and listed in the ACL Anthology.

Mode of presentation will be decided by the Program Committee based on
the submitted papers – either as an oral presentation or as a poster,
based on suitability for the given presentation mode, not quality –
all papers will be given the same space in the proceedings, and there
will be no distinction in the proceedings between research papers
presented orally vs. as posters. Papers will be reviewed by at least
three members of the Program Committee.

Organizers

Jan Hajič, Charles University in Prague
Gertjan van Noord, University of Groningen
António Branco, University of Lisbon

DeepMT 2016 is organized and supported by the QTLeap project.
http://www.qtleap.eu/
 

Program Committee

Jan Hajič, Charles University in Prague (Chair)
Gertjan van Noord, University of Groningen (Co-chair)
António Branco, University of Lisbon (Co-chair)
Aljoscha Burchardt, DFKI
Dekai Wu, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Deyi Xiong, Soochow University
Eneko Agirre, University of the Basque Country
Eva Hajicova, Charles University in Prague
João Silva, University of Lisbon
Khalil Sima’an, University of Amsterdam
Kiril Simov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Martin Popel, Charles University in Prague
Petya Osenova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Rosa Del Gaudio, Higher Functions