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Directory         1.     Reinhard Rapp , EACL 2012 Joint Workshop on IR and Hybrid MT Message 1: EACL 2012 Joint Workshop on IR and Hybrid MT Date: 31-Dec-2011 From: Reinhard Rapp <reinhardrappgmx.de> Subject: EACL 2012 Joint Workshop on IR and Hybrid MT E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: EACL 2012 Joint Workshop on IR and Hybrid MT Short Title: ESIRMT-HyTra Date: 23-Apr-2012 - 24-Apr-2012 Location: Avignon, France Contact Person: Marta Costa-jussà Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Web Site: http://www-lium.univ-lemans.fr/esirmt-hytra Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics Call Deadline: 02-Feb-2012 Meeting Description: Joint Workshop on Exploiting Synergies between Information Retrieval and Machine Translation (ESIRMT) and Hybrid Approaches to Machine Translation (HyTra) Co-located with EACL 2012 (http://eacl2012.org/) Avignon, France April 23 and 24, 2012 http://www-lium.univ-lemans.fr/esirmt-hytra This two-day workshop addresses two specific but related research problems in computational linguistics. The ESIRMT event (1st day) aims at reducing the gap, both theoretical and practical, between information retrieval and machine translation research and applications. Although both fields have been already contributing to each other instrumentally, there is still too much work to be done in relation to solidly framing these two fields into a common ground of knowledge from both the procedural and paradigmatic perspectives. The HyTra event (2nd day) aims at sharing ideas among researchers developing and applying statistical, example-based, or rule-based machine translation systems and who wish to enhance their systems with elements from the other approaches. The joint workshop will provide participants with the opportunity of discussing research related to technology integration and system combination strategies at both the general level of cross-language information access and the specific level of machine translation technologies. Invited Speakers: Philipp Koehn (University of Edinburgh) Christof Monz (University of Amsterdam) Call for Papers: Contributions are to be organized into two tracks, corresponding to ESIRMT and HyTra, respectively. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: ESIRMT Track: - Machine translation and information retrieval hybridization - Applications of MT and IR hybrid systems - IR techniques integrated in MT systems - MT techniques integrated in IR systems - Any kind of innovative approach exploiting synergies between MT and IR - Machine learning techniques for ranking HyTra Track: - Ways and techniques of MT hybridization - Architectures for the rapid development of hybrid MT systems - Hybrid systems dealing with underresourced languages and/or with morphologically rich languages - Using linguistic information (morphology, syntax, semantics) to enhance statistical MT - Bootstrapping rule-based systems from corpora - Hybrid methods in spoken language translation - Extraction of dictionaries from parallel and comparable corpora - Machine learning techniques for hybrid MT - Heuristics for limiting the search space in hybrid MT - Alternative methods for the fair evaluation of the output of different types of MT systems - System combination approaches - Open source tools and free language resources for hybrid MT Submission Instructions: Authors are invited to submit papers on original and previously unpublished work. Formatting should be according to EACL 2012 specifications using LaTeX or MS-Word style files, see http://eacl2012.org/information-for-authors/index.html (paper length: up to 9 pages plus an extra page for references). Reviewing of papers will be double-blind, so the submissions should not reveal the authors' identity. Submission is electronic in PDF format using the START submission system at: https://www.softconf.com/eacl2012/ESIRMT-HyTra/ Double submission policy: Parallel submission to other meetings or publications are possible but must be immediately notified to the workshop contact person (see below). Authors of accepted papers will be invited to present their research at the workshop. The papers will be published in the electronic workshop proceedings. These will be part of the EACL proceedings, published by ACL. They will also be made available online via the ACL Anthology. Important Dates: February 2, 2012: Paper submissions due February 24, 2012: Notification of acceptance March 9, 2012: Camera ready papers due April 23-24, 2012: Workshop in Avignon Organizers: Contact person: Marta R. Costa-jussà (email: marta.ruizbarcelonamedia.org) ESIRMT: Marta R. Costa-jussà (Barcelona Media Innovation Center), Patrik Lambert (University of Le Mans), Rafael E. Banchs (Institute for Infocomm Research) HyTra: Reinhard Rapp (Universities of Mainz and Leeds), Bogdan Babych (University of Leeds), Kurt Eberle (Lingenio GmbH), Tony Hartley (Toyohashi University of Technology and University of Leeds), Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds), Martin Thomas (University of Leeds) Programme Committee: Jordi Atserias, Yahoo! Research, Barcelona, Spain Bogdan Babych, University of Leeds, UK Sivaji Bandyopadhyay, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India Núria Bel, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain Pierrette Bouillon, ISSCO/TIM/ETI, University of Geneva, Switzerland Chris Callison-Burch, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA Michael Carl, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark Oliver Culo, ICSI, University of California, Berkeley, USA Kurt Eberle, Lingenio GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany Andreas Eisele, Directorate-General for Translation, European Commission, Luxembourg Marcello Federico, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy José A. R. Fonollosa, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain Mikel Forcada, University of Alicante, Spain Alexander Fraser, Institute for Natural Language Processing (IMS), Stuttgart, Germany Johanna Geiß, Lingenio GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany Mireia Ginesti-Rosell, Lingenio GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany Silvia Hansen-Schirra, FTSK, University of Mainz, Germany Tony Hartley, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan, and University of Leeds, England Gareth Jones, Dublin City University, Ireland Min-Yen Kan, National University of Singapore Udo Kruschwitz, University of Essez, UK Yanjun Ma, Baidu Inc. Beijing, China José B. Mariño, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain Maite Melero, Barcelona Media Innovation Center, Barcelona, Spain Haizhou Li, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Reinhard Rapp, University of Mainz, Germany, and University of Leeds, UK Paul Schmidt, Institut for Applied Information Science, Saarbrücken, Germany Uta Seewald-Heeg, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, Köthen, Germany Nasredine Semmar, CEA LIST, France Serge Sharoff, University of Leeds, UK Wade Shen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA Fabrizio Silvestri, Instituto de Scienza e Tecnologia del'Informazione, Pisa, Italy Harold Somers, CNGL, Dublin City University, Ireland Anders Søgaard, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Martin Thomas, University of Leeds, UK Jörg Tiedemann, University of Uppsala, Sweden Zygmunt Vetulani, University of Poznan, Poland Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 04-Jan-2012       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.