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Today's Topics:

1. Warning during tokenizing Urdu Corpus (Asad A.Malik)
2. Does Moses support C++11 compilation? (Li Xiang)
3. Call for Papers: 9th SaLTMiL workshop on ?Free/open-source
language resources for the machine translation of less-resourced
languages? at LREC 2014. (Mikel Forcada)
4. 1st CfP: LREC 2014 Workshop on Free/Open-Source Arabic
Corpora and Corpora Processing Tools (OSACT)


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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2013 08:35:59 -0800 (PST)
From: "Asad A.Malik" <asad_12204@yahoo.com>
Subject: [Moses-support] Warning during tokenizing Urdu Corpus
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Hi All,

I am trying to develop Urdu SMT using MOSES. I have Urdu parallel corpus and the 1st step in manual is to tokenize the corpus, but when I enter following command:

~/SMT/mosesdecoder/scripts/tokenizer/tokenizer.perl -l ur < ~/SMT/corpus/training/mycorpus.ur-en.ur > ~/SMT/corpus/mycorpus.ur-en.tok.ur?


it gives me warning:

WARNING: No known abbreviations for language 'ur', attempting fall-back to English version...

It also generates the output file but I don't know that this output is tokenized or not


Regards


Asad A.Malik
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2013 17:46:44 +0800
From: Li Xiang <lixiang.ict@gmail.com>
Subject: [Moses-support] Does Moses support C++11 compilation?
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Hi,

Does Moses support C++11 compilation?
Because I want to integrate my code which is base on C++11 into Moses.
How to modify the bjam config file to compile Moses using C++11?
Thanks.

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Xiang Li
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2013 13:39:01 +0100
From: Mikel Forcada <mlf@dlsi.ua.es>
Subject: [Moses-support] Call for Papers: 9th SaLTMiL workshop on
?Free/open-source language resources for the machine translation of
less-resourced languages? at LREC 2014.
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Call for Papers: 9th SaLTMiL workshop on ?Free/open-source language
resources for the machine translation of less-resourced languages? at
LREC 2014.

A full-day workshop at LREC 2014
Tuesday, 27 May 2014.
Reykjavik (Iceland)

SALTMIL: http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/saltmil/
LREC 2014: http://lrec2014.lrec-conf.org/en/
Website: http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/saltmil/
Paper submission: https://www.softconf.com/lrec2014/SaLTMiL/

The 9th International Workshop of the Special Interest Group on Speech
and Language Technology for Minority Languages (SaLTMiL) will be held in
Reykjav?k, Iceland, on May 24, 2014, as part of the 2014 International
Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC). (For SALTMIL see:
http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/saltmil/); it is also framed as one of the
activities of European project Abu-Matran (http://www.abumatran.eu).
Entitled "Free/open-source language resources for the machine
translation of less-resourced languages", the workshop is intended to
continue the series of SALTMIL/LREC workshops on computational language
resources for minority languages, held in Granada (1998), Athens (2000),
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (2002), Lisbon (2004), Genoa (2006),
Marrakech (2008), La Valetta (2010) and Istanbul (2012), and is also
expected to attract the audience of Free Rule-Based Machine Translation
workshops (2009, 2011, 2012). The workshop aims to share information on
language resources, tools and best practice, to save isolated
researchers from starting from scratch when building machine translation
for a less-resourced language. An important aspect will be the
strengthening of the free/open-source language resources community,
which can minimize duplication of effort and optimize development and
adoption, in line with the LREC 2014 hot topic ?LRs in the Collaborative
Age? (http://is.gd/LREChot).

The whole-day workshop will consist of short oral papers, a poster
session preceded by a poster-boaster session (2 minutes, 2 slides per
poster), and a round table.

Papers are invited that describe research and development in the
following areas:

FOS LR for rule-based machine translation (dictionaries, rule sets)
FOS LR for statistical machine translation (corpora)
FOS tools to annotate, clean, preprocess, convert, etc. LRs for machine
translation
Machine translation as a tool for creating or enriching FOS LRs for
less-resourced languages

Position papers and (web based) demonstrations will also be considered
for presentation.

The best papers, as evaluated by the programme committee, will be
presented orally and the remaining paper will be presented in poster
format.

We expect short papers of max 6,000 words (up to 6 pages) describing
research addressing one of the above topics, to be submitted as PDF
documents by using the LREC 2014 START conference management system
(https://www.softconf.com/lrec2014/SaLTMiL/).

Submissions should be anonymized. When submitting a paper through the
START page, authors will be kindly asked to share the resources that
have been used for the work described in their paper or that are the
outcome of their research. For further information on this initiative,
please refer to
http://lrec2014.lrec-conf.org/en/calls-for-papers/lrec-2014-special-highlight/.


Submissions of papers should follow the same style as the papers for the
main LREC conference (an Author's Kit made of specific guidelines and
downloadable templates will be published on the conference web site in
due time). All contributions will be included in the workshop
proceedings (CD). They will also be published on the SALTMIL website.

The registration fees will be duly announced at the LREC 2014 site.
Registration in the workshop willl include a coffee break and the
Proceedings of the Workshop. Registration will be handled by the LREC
2014 Secretariat.


Important dates

Deadline for paper submission: February 10, 2014
Notification of acceptance sent: March, 3, 2014
Camera-ready paper due: March 21, 2014


Organizing committee

Joint e-mail address: saltmil2014@dlsi.ua.es

(1) Dr Francis M Tyers
Institutt for spr?kvitskap
Det humanistiske fakultet,
N-9037 Universitetet i Troms?
ftyers@prompsit.com

(2) Dr Kepa Sarasola
Computer Science Faculty
Dept. of Computer Languages
The University of the Basque Country
P.K. 649 20080 DONOSTIA
Basque Country, Spain
Tel: +34 943 01 81 54
Fax: +34 943 21 93 06
ksarasola@ehu.es
http://ixa.si.ehu.es

(3) Prof Mikel L. Forcada
Dept. Llenguatges i Sistemes inform?tics
Universitat d?Alacant
E-03071 Alacant (Spain)
Tel: +34 96 590 9776
FAx: +34 96 590 9326
mlf@ua.es
http://www.dlsi.ua.es/~mlf


Programme Committee

I?aki Alegria, Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, Spain
Lars Borin, G?teborgs Universitet, Sweden.
Elaine U? Dhonnchadha, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Mikel L. Forcada, Universitat d?Alacant, Spain
Michael Gasser, Indiana University, USA
M?ns Huld?n, Helsingin Yliopisto, Finland
Krister Lind?n, Helsingin Yliopisto, Finland
Nikola Ljube?i?, Sveu?ili?te u Zagrebu, Croatia
Llu?s Padr?, Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya, Spain
Juan Antonio P?rez-Ortiz, Universitat d?Alacant, Spain
Felipe S?nchez-Mart?nez, Universitat d?Alacant
Kepa Sarasola, Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, Spain
Kevin P. Scannell, Saint Louis University, USA
Antonio Toral, Dublin City University, Ireland
Trond Trosterud, Universitet i Troms?, Norway
Francis M. Tyers, Universitet i Troms?, Norway

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Mikel L. Forcada (http://www.dlsi.ua.es/~mlf/)
Departament de Llenguatges i Sistemes Inform?tics
Universitat d'Alacant
E-03071 Alacant, Spain
Phone: +34 96 590 9776
Fax: +34 96 590 9326

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Mikel L. Forcada (http://www.dlsi.ua.es/~mlf/)
Departament de Llenguatges i Sistemes Inform?tics
Universitat d'Alacant
E-03071 Alacant, Spain
Phone: +34 96 590 9776
Fax: +34 96 590 9326



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Subject: [Moses-support] 1st CfP: LREC 2014 Workshop on
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We apologize for multiple postings, Please distribute to interested colleagues

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1st Call for Papers

WORKSHOP ON Free/Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Corpora Processing Tools

http://www.kacstac.org.sa/osact/index.html

May 27, 2014
Co-located with LREC 2014
Harpa Conference Centre, Reykjavik (Iceland)

DEADLINE FOR PAPERS: February 10, 2014
https://www.softconf.com/lrec2014/OSACT/

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Workshop description

For Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computational Linguistics (CL) communities, it was a known situation that Arabic is a resource poor language. This situation was thought to be the reason why there is a lack of corpus based studies in Arabic. However, the last years witnessed the emergence of new considerably free Arabic corpora and in lesser extent Arabic corpora processing tools.

Freely available Arabic corpora can be divided into two groups. The first group contains large Arabic corpora, which are designed and constructed basically for Arabic linguistics research and activities, and maybe for Arabic NLP. These corpora are diverse in the genres they cover and their sizes range from one million words to 700 million words. The second group contains corpora that were designed basically for Arabic text classification and clustering, they mainly contain newspapers' articles. They range from less than 1 million words to 11 million words.

Some Arabic corpora are available on the web to explore using different tools, basically large corpora, while other corpora are only available for download. For the corpora that are available for download, the user may need to use standalone corpus processing tools. These tools contain many functionality such as word frequency, concordance, collocation, etc. Therefore, with the availability of large and diverse Arabic corpora, the situation does not change. There is still a lack of Arabic corpus base studies. Is this because of representativeness of these corpora? The available functions and tools associated with these corpora? or is it because they are not well known enough for the Arabic linguistics community?


Motivation and topics of interest

This half-day-workshop aims to encourage the researchers and developers to foster the utilization of freely available Arabic corpora and open source Arabic corpora processing tools and help in highlighting the drawbacks of these resources and discuss techniques and approaches on how to improve them. The workshop topics include but not limited to:


* Surveying and criticizing the design of freely available Arabic corpora, their associated tools and stand alone Arabic corpora processing tools.
* The applications and uses of freely available Arabic language resources in fields such as Arabic language education e.g. L1 and L2.
* Arabic language modeling.
* Corpus based Arabic lexigraphy.
* Lexical semantics and word sense.
* Corpus based Arabic syntactic.
* Corpus based Arabic morphology.
* Development of Arabic mobile applications based on the available Arabic language resources.
* Evaluation and assessment of Arabic Corpora and Corpora Processing Tools.
* Future directions of Free/Open Arabic Corpora and Corpora Processing Tools.


Organising Committee


* Hend Al-Khalifa, King Saud University, KSA
* Abdulmohsen Al-Thubaity, King Abdul Aziz City for Science and Technology, KSA

Program Committee


* Eric Atwell, University of Leeds, UK
* Khaled Shaalan, The British University in Dubai (BUiD), UAE
* Dilworth Parkinson, Brigham Young University, USA
* Nizar Habash, Columbia University, USA
* Khurshid Ahmad, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
* Abdulmalik AlSalman, King Saud University, KSA
* Maha Alrabiah, King Saud University, KSA
* Saleh Alosaimi, Imam University, KSA
* Sultan almujaiwel, King Saud University, KSA
* Adam Kilgarriff, Lexical Computing Ltd, UK
* Amal AlSaif, Imam University, KSA
* Maha AlYahya, King Saud University, KSA
* Auhood AlFaries, King Saud University, KSA
* Salwa Hamada, Taibah University, KSA
* Mansour Algamdi, King Abdul Aziz City for Science and Technology, KSA
* Abdullah Alfaifi, University of Leeds, UK


Important Dates


* Submission deadline: 10 February 2014
* Notification of acceptance: 10 March 2013
* Final submission of manuscripts: 21 March 2014
* Workshop date: 27 May 2014 (morning session)

Submissions

The language of the workshop is English and submissions should be with respect to LREC 2014 paper submission instructions. All papers will be peer reviewed possibly by three independent referees. Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format to the START system<https://www.softconf.com/lrec2014/OSACT/>. When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.), to enable their reuse, replicability of experiments, including evaluation ones, etc.
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