CFP: The 11th Workshop on Asian Translation

Event Notification Type: 
Call for Papers
Abbreviated Title: 
WAT2024
Location: 
Hyatt Regency Miami Hotel
Saturday, 16 November 2024
State: 
Florida
Country: 
USA
City: 
Miami
Contact: 
Toshiaki Nakazawa
Submission Deadline: 
Friday, 30 August 2024

This is the call for research papers to the 11th Workshop on Asian Translation (WAT2024),
workshop of EMNLP2024. Those who are working on machine translation, please join us.

IMPORTANT DATES
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August 30 - Research Paper Submission Deadline
September 27 - Notification of Acceptance for Research Papers
October 3 - Camera-ready Deadline
November 16 - Workshop Date

* All deadlines are calculated at 11:59PM UTC-12

Best regards,

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WAT2024
(The 11th Workshop on Asian Translation)
in conjunction with EMNLP2024
http://lotus.kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp/WAT/WAT2024
November 16, 2024 / Miami, Florida, USA

Following the success of the previous WAT workshops (WAT2014 --
WAT2023), WAT2024 will bring together machine translation researchers
and users to try, evaluate, share and discuss brand-new ideas about
machine translation. For the 11th WAT, following shared tasks are carried under WMT2024. Please check the WMT2024 website for details.

* MultiIndic22MT
https://www2.statmt.org/wmt24/multiindicmt-task.html
* English-to-Lowres Multi-Modal Translation
https://www2.statmt.org/wmt24/multimodallowresmt-task.html
* Non-Repetitive Translation
https://www2.statmt.org/wmt24/non-repetitive-translation-task.html
* Patent Translation
https://www2.statmt.org/wmt24/patent-task.html

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

ORGANIZERS
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- Toshiaki Nakazawa, The University of Tokyo, Japan
- Isao Goto, Ehime University, Japan
- Hidaya Mino, Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK), Japan
- Kazutaka Kinugawa, Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK), Japan
- Chenhui Chu, Kyoto University, Japan
- Haiyue Song, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan
- Raj Dabre, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan
- Shohei Higashiyama, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan
- Anoop Kunchookuttan, Microsoft AI and Research, India
- Shantipriya Parida, Silo AI, Finland
- Ondřej Bojar, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
- Sadao Kurohashi, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
- Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Indian Institute of Technology Patna (IITP), India

CONTACT
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wat-organizer@googlegroups.com