Natural language research announcements

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

I would like to encourage anyone with an interest in machine translation and/or neural networks to consider attending the (free!) machine translation workshop in Dayton, Ohio this May.

This is an outstanding opportunity to quickly get up to speed in the state-of-the-art in machine translation, to meet many of the leading researchers in the field, and to get hands-on experience with leading open source machine translation tools.

I will be attending. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me. There is no cost for registration.

Thanks,

Lane Schwartz

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This is a joint announcement and call for participation and papers for

   Third MT Marathon in the Americas (May 22-26; Dayton, OH, USA)

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   MT Marathon 2017 (Aug 28-Sept 02; Lisbon, Portugal, EU)

This year, you are most welcome to take part in one of (or both!) Machine Translation Marathons. The US edition, this year sponsored by 711th Human Performance Wing of the Air Force Research Laboratory, takes place in late May and highlights the features of a summer school. The EU edition, this year jointly organized by Unbabel, IST, the Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT) and the Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Investigação e Desenvolvimento (INESC-ID), takes place Aug 28 - Sept 02 with a focus on deep learning.

Each Machine Translation Marathon is a week long gathering of machine translation researchers, developers, students and users featuring:

- MT Lectures and Labs covering the basics and tutorials.

- Technical Talks about open source tools.

- Hacking Projects to advance tools or research in one week.

Details:

  http://www.statmt.org/mtma17   for the US edition (registration open)

  http://www.statmt.org/mtm17    for the EU edition (coming soon)

** Call for papers **

Each MT Marathon will again host an Open Source Convention to advance the state of the art in machine translation. We invite developers of open source tools to present their work and submit a paper 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 Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics (http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/pbml).

Deadlines:

Abstract submission: June 19 (one paragraph, to allocate reviewers)

Paper submission: July 3

Notification: July 21

Camera-ready deadline: July 28