Natural language research announcements

["Schwartz, Lane Oscar Bingaman" <lanes AT illinois.edu>]

The Department of Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) invites students, translators, researchers, developers, and users interested in machine translation to participate in the 2015 Machine Translation workshop at UIUC. This week long event, generously sponsored by Bloomberg, will include: 

·      Machine Translation Lectures and hands-on labs, ranging from beginners tutorials to showcase talks by leading researchers, including Philipp Koehn, David Chiang, and Kenneth Heafield. Everyone can learn or strengthen their knowledge.

·      Technical talks about open source tools for Machine Translation

·      Interested participants with programming skills are invited to take part in open source Machine Translation hacking projects, led by experienced developers and world-renowned MT researchers.

 

The event will take place on May 10-15 at the I-Hotel and Conference Center, located at 1900 S. 1st Street, Champaign, IL 61820.

 

Participation is free. In order to help us prepare for the event, we request that anyone interested in attending please register their interest at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/machine-translation-marathon-at-uiuc-tickets-16278997921.

 

Career recruiters from Bloomberg will also be present at the event for discussion with any interested students.

For more information, please contact Lane Schwartz, Assistant Professor of Linguistics (lanes AT illinois.edu).