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Today's Topics:

1. Re: NoDaLiDa 2015: Final Call for papers (Be?ta Megyesi)
2. Feature score deltas in the chart decoder (Matthias Huck)
3. SymForum public release (Rasoul Samad Zadeh Kaljahi)
4. ICEMIS 2015 Istanbul Turkey (ray)


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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 09:43:24 +0000
From: Be?ta Megyesi <Beata.Megyesi@lingfil.uu.se>
Subject: Re: [Moses-support] NoDaLiDa 2015: Final Call for papers
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[with apologies for cross-posting]


DEADLINE EXTENSION FOR SUBMISSIONS TO THE MAIN CONFERENCE
New and Final Closing Date: Monday, JANUARY 26, 2015, 23:59 CET


20th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa)

Monday, May 11, to Wednesday, May 13, 2015
Institute of the Lithuanian Language, Vilnius, Lithuania

http://lki.lt/nodalida/
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nodalida15


FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

The Northern European Association for Language Technology (NEALT)
invites submissions to its bi-annual conference on human language and
speech technologies. NoDaLiDa 2015 will be held between May 11 and May
13, 2015, on the campus of the University of Vilnius, Lithuania. Please
mark your calendars.

CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS

As part of the main conference, there will be three invited keynotes:
+Kevin Knight, ISI, University of Southern California, USA
+Catherine Pelachaud, CNRS, TELECOM Paris Tech, France
+Sebastian Riedel, University College London, UK

Preceding the main conference, on Monday, May 11, there will be four
topical workshops:

+ 4th workshop on NLP for Computer Assisted Language Learning (NLP4CALL)
+ Semantic resources and semantic annotation for Natural Language Processing and the Digital Humanities
+ Innovative Corpus Query and Visualization Tools
+ Constraint Grammar - Methods, Tools and Applications

Workshops will issue individual call for papers in mid-January and will
have a closing date for submissions in March.

SUBMISSIONS

NoDaLiDa addresses all aspects of speech recognition and synthesis,
natural language processing, and computational linguistics, including
work in closely related neighbouring disciplines (such as, for example,
linguistics or psychology) that is sufficiently formalized or applied
to bear relevance to speech and language technologies.

We invite paper submissions in three distinct tracks:

+ regular papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research,
including empirical evaluation results, where appropriate;
+ short papers on smaller, focused contributions, work in progress,
negative results, surveys, or opinion pieces; and
+ student papers on completed or ongoing work, where at least the first
author is a Master or PhD student.

There will be a fourth track for system demonstrations, with a separate
call for papers and submission deadline in March 23, 2015.

Papers accepted for presentation at the conference will be included in
the NoDaLiDa 2015 proceedings, which is published as part of the NEALT
Proceedings Series by Link?ping University Electronic Press.
The proceedings will be publicly available in the ACL Anthology:
http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/

SCHEDULE

+ Monday, January 26, 2015, 23:59 CET: Submission of Papers
+ Monday, March 16, 2015: Notification of Acceptance
+ Monday, March 30, 2015: Camera-Ready Manuscripts
+ Monday, May 11, 2015: Pre-Conference Workshops
+ Tuesday & Wednesday, May 12 & 13, 2015: Main Conference


SUBMISSION FORMATS

All submissions must follow the NoDaLiDa 2015 style files, which are
available for LaTeX (preferred) or MS Word and can be
retrieved from the following address:

http://stp.lingfil.uu.se/~bea/nodalida15/

Submissions must be anonymous, i.e. not reveal author(s) on the title
page or through self-references. Papers must be submitted digitally,
in PDF, and uploaded through the on-line conference system. Paper
submissions that violate either of these requirements will be returned
without review.

The page limits for submissions are: up to eight pages for regular
papers, up to four pages for short papers, and up to six pages for
student papers. For all three submission types, these page limits do
/not/ include additional pages with bibliographic references.

SUBMISSION MANAGEMENT

Submissions to the conference must be uploaded electronically, obeying
the above requirements and no later than:
Monday, January 26, 2015, 23:59 CET

NoDaLiDa 2015 utilizes the EasyChair conference management system for
submission, reviewing, and preparation of proceedings. Submission for
the conference is now open at:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nodalida15

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Reviewing of submissions and selection of the conference programme will
be managed by the NoDaLiDa 2015 Programme Committee. All submissions
will receive three double-blind reviews by experts in the field.

+ Be?ta Megyesi (program chair), Uppsala University, Sweden
+ Filip Ginter, University of Turku, Finland
+ Kristiina Jokinen, University of Helsinki, Finland
+ Arne J?nsson, Link?ping University, Sweden
+ Violeta Meili?nait?, Institute of the Lithuanian Language, Lithuania
+ Costanza Navarretta, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
+ Stephan Oepen, University of Oslo, Norway
+ Oscar T?ckstr?m, Google Inc.

To inquire about the submission and reviewing process or generally the
scientific programme of the conference, please email
"nodalida15@stp.lingfil.uu.se".

LOCAL ORGANIZATION

The NoDaLiDa 2015 Organizing Committee is comprised of staff from the
Institute of the Lithuanian Language, Vilnius, Lithuania:

+ Jolanta Zabarskaite
+ Violeta Meili?nait?

For all practical inquiries, please email "lki@lki.lt".




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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 19:17:53 +0000
From: Matthias Huck <mhuck@inf.ed.ac.uk>
Subject: [Moses-support] Feature score deltas in the chart decoder
To: Moses-support <moses-support@mit.edu>
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Hi,

I've just pushed a commit to Moses that brings about a slight change
wrt. the way the chart decoder deals with feature scores.

The chart decoder now stores deltas of individual feature scores instead
of constantly summing everything up. This behaviour is similar to what
we have been doing in the phrase-based decoder since a long time
already. The main purpose of this modification is to improve efficiency
with sparse features a bit.

https://github.com/moses-smt/mosesdecoder/commit/465b47566424efb707bdc063d0bff52b0650eb0a


The modification may however break existing feature function
implementations.

As a rule of thumb, any feature function that calls

ScoreComponentCollection::Assign()
in
EvaluateWhenApplied(const ChartHypothesis&, ...)

is affected and needs to be adapted to the new behaviour.

Basically, the ScoreComponentCollection variable passed to
EvaluateWhenApplied() now accumulates the delta score of the current
rule application only, whereas it was previously accumulating the
overall score of the partial hypothesis.
I.e., calling Assign() in EvaluateWhenApplied() now does not replace the
overall score any more, but has the same effect as calling PlusEquals().

If you are the author of a feature function that implements
EvaluateWhenApplied(const ChartHypothesis&, ...) and calls Assign()
within that method, or if you are using such a feature function in your
experiments, please update your implementation. The feature function
should call PlusEquals() instead and add a score delta.

I've already updated moses/LM/Ken.cpp and moses/LM/Implementation.cpp
and Rico has updated moses/LM/BilingualLM.cpp .
In the Moses master branch I found one other feature function that
requires modifications:

moses/LM/DALMWrapper.cpp

This feature is currently not covered by a regression test, and I don't
have any setup with this feature myself. I would not be able to test any
modifications in that code and therefore would like to request that the
authors apply the necessary updates themselves.

Please let me know in case you notice any issues or if you need any
further information or advice regarding this modification.

Cheers,
Matthias




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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 18:18:48 +0000
From: Rasoul Samad Zadeh Kaljahi <rasul.szk@gmail.com>
Subject: [Moses-support] SymForum public release
To: moses-support@mit.edu, corpora@uib.no
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We are pleased to announce the public release of SymForum (for academic and
research purposes only). SymForum is a quality estimation data set for
machine-translated user-generated content. It contains 4500 sentences taken
from an online technical support forum, machine-translated with three
different MT systems, manually post-edited as well as evaluated for
adequacy and fluency. It is described in detail in Kaljahi et al. (2014)
and accessible from http://nclt.dcu.ie/mt/confidentmt.html. Please feel
free to contact me if you have any question regarding the data set.

Best Regards,
Rasoul Kaljahi.

*Reference:*

Kaljahi, R. S. Z., Foster, J., and Roturier, J. (2014b). Syntax and
semantics in quality estimation of machine translation. In Proceedings of
SSST-8, Eighth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical
Translation.
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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 11:39:13 +0000
From: ray <Ray.Walshe@computing.dcu.ie>
Subject: [Moses-support] ICEMIS 2015 Istanbul Turkey
To: "ray.walshe@insight-centre.org" <ray.walshe@insight-centre.org>
Message-ID: <54AE6C61.6030508@computing.dcu.ie>
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/Apologies for multiple posts/_/

/_
*WEBSITE --> *http://www.iares.net/_*

Selected Tracks*_
*Web Technologies*: Social Networks, Programming Languages, Semantics,
Web Semantic, Mobile Applications, Mobile Engineering, web applications
developments and others.
*Computing & Applications*: OS, Databases, Cloud Computing, Soft
Computing, Genetic Programming, Genetic Algorithm, Swarm Intelligence,
Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition, Fuzzy Systems, Fuzzy Logic,
Neural network, Machine Learning, Multi-Agent Systems, Neural Genetic
Systems, Neural Fuzzy Systems, Pattern Recognition, Time Series
Analysis, Forecasting, Reinforcement Learning, statistical Data
Analysis, Complex Systems, Evolutionary Systems
/_Important Dates_/:

*Draft Paper Submission Deadline: 10 Feb, 2015*
Notification Acceptance: 10 March, 2015
Camera-Ready Papers Due & Registration Deadline: 10 April 2015
*Conference Date: 24-26 September, 2015**
*

The International Conference on Engineering & MIS 2015 will take place
in Istanbul, Turkey, 24-26 September, 2015.
The ICEMIS 2015 is organized by the International Association of
Researchers (IARES), a non-profit international association for the
researchers. The ICEMIS is co-sponsored by the Istanbul Kemerburgaz
University, Turkey. The conference has the focus on the frontier topics
in the theoretical and applied engineering and MIS subjects. The ICEMIS
conference serves as good platforms for our members and the entire
engineering and MIS community to meet with each other and to exchange
ideas.

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Funded Investigator
Insight Centre for Data Analytics
Director - CloudCORE Cloud Computing Research Centre
Faculty of Engineering and Computing (DCU)
Dublin City University,Dublin 9,IRELAND.
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