Joint Call for Participation and Papers for
Second MT Marathon in the Americas (May 16-21; Notre Dame, IN, USA)
and
MT Marathon 2016 (Sept 12-17; Prague, Czech Republic, EU)
You are invited to take part in one or both of this year's Machine Translation Marathons. The US edition is sponsored by Microsoft and others. The EU edition is organized by the EU project CRACKER, takes place in the traditional second week of September and the underlying topic is quality in machine translation (QT Marathon).
Machine Translation Marathon is a week-long gathering of machine translation researchers, developers, students and users. It features:
- MT lectures and labs introducing the field of machine translation
- Invited talks from experienced researchers and practitioners
- Technical talks about open source tools
- Week-long hacking projects to advance translation tools or research
Details:
http://www.statmt.org/mtma16 for the US edition (registration open)
http://www.statmt.org/mtm16 for the EU edition (coming soon)
** Call for papers **
We invite developers of open source tools to present their work and submit a paper (for the Prague MT Marathon) of up to 10 pages that describes the underlying methodology and includes instructions on how to download and use the tools.
We are looking for stand-alone tools and extensions of existing tools, such as the Moses open source system. Accepted papers will be presented during the MT Marathon and published in the 106th issue of the Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics (http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/pbml).