Fourth Workshop on Discourse in Machine Translation (DiscoMT'19)
http://www.idiap.ch/workshop/DiscoMT
In conjunction with EMNLP 2019, Hong Kong, China
3 November 2019
Second call for papers
We invite submissions to the Fourth Workshop on Discourse in Machine Translation, held in conjunction with EMNLP 2019, in Hong Kong. The first three DiscoMT workshops were held in 2013 at ACL in Sofia, in 2015 at EMNLP in Lisbon, and in 2017 at EMNLP in Copenhagen. Keynote presentations will be given by Prof. Qun Liu (Noah's Ark Lab, Huawei) and Dr. Kellie Webster (Google AI).
TOPICS
DiscoMT 2019 solicits submissions on any of the following topics and any language pairs, but also welcomes submissions that link discourse studies with machine translation in some other way.
- discourse processing in support of MT:
. textual coherence, including anaphora, coreference, tense, aspect and modality
. textual cohesion, including lexical consistency
. discourse structure, including use of connectives and information structuring devices
. topic structure
. consistency in style and register;
- MT techniques for obtaining document-level consistency and domain adaptability;
- MT techniques for structured documents;
- methods and algorithms to handle discourse-level phenomena in all approaches to MT,
including neural, statistical and rule-based MT;
- uses of MT techniques in processing discourse-level phenomena;
- techniques and resources for evaluating the effect of efforts targeting
discourse-level phenomena in MT;
- quantitative studies of the impact of discourse-level phenomena
on MT systems, including discourse-aware ones;
- annotation of multilingual corpus resources with discourse-level linguistic information;
- use of language technology to support research in translation studies and contrastive linguistics;
- linguistic studies of discourse with direct relevance for MT.
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
We solicit previously unpublished work, presented either as long or short papers, following the EMNLP 2019 formatting guidelines. Long papers should have at most 8 pages of content, not including references. Short papers are limited to 4 pages of content, not including references. There is no constraint on the size of the reference list. Submissions should be anonymous and not disclose in any way the identity of the author(s). Submissions should be made using the Softconf system (https://www.softconf.com/emnlp2019/ws-DiscoMT19/) following the EMNLP formatting instructions.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: Monday, August 19, 2019
Decision notification: Monday, September 16, 2019
Final versions due: Monday, September 30, 2019
Workshop at EMNLP: Sunday, November 3, 2019
ORGANIZERS
Christian Hardmeier, Uppsala University, Sweden
Sharid Loáiciga, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Andrei Popescu-Belis, HEIG-VD/HES-SO, Switzerland
Deyi Xiong, Tianjin University, China
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Marine Carpuat, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Marta Costa-jussà, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Zhengxian Gong, Soochow University, Suzhou, China
Yulia Grishina, University of Postdam & Amazon, Berlin, Germany
Francisco Guzmán, Facebook, USA
Gholamreza Haffari, Monash University, Clayton, Australia
Shafiq Joty, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
Lesly Miculicich Werlen, Idiap Research Institute, Martigny, Switzerland
Preslav Nakov, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Doha, Qatar
Michal Novak, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Nikolaos Pappas, Idiap Research Institute, Martigny, Switzerland
Lucie Poláková, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Maja Popovic, Adapt Centre, Dublin City University, Ireland
Annette Rios, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Carol Scarton, University of Sheffield, UK
Rico Sennrich, University of Edinburgh, UK
Jörg Tiedemann, University of Helsinki, Finland
Yannick Versley, Independent consultant, IBM Services
Martin Volk, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Bonnie Webber, University of Edinburgh, UK
Kellie Webster, Google, New York, US
Min Zhang, Soochow University, Suzhou, China
Sandrine Zufferey, University of Bern, Switzerland
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