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Today's Topics:

1. Pilot task on MT automatic Post-editing (APE) at WMT 2015
(marco turchi)
2. NoDaLiDa 2015: Call for Demos (Be?ta Megyesi)


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Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 09:28:17 +0100
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Subject: [Moses-support] Pilot task on MT automatic Post-editing (APE)
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[apologies for cross-posting]

Automatic Post-editing task at the 10th Workshop on Statistical Machine
Translation (http://www.statmt.org/wmt15/ape-task.html)


This year WMT will include a pilot task on Automatic Post-editing (APE).
This new shared task will examine automatic methods for correcting errors
produced by an unknown machine translation (MT) system, by exploiting
knowledge acquired from previous human post-editions and provided as
training material.


*GOALS*:

- The aim of this task is to improve MT output in black-box scenarios, in
which the MT system is used "as is" and cannot be modified. From the
application point of view APE components would make it possible to:
- Cope with systematic errors of an MT system whose decoding process is not
accessible
- Provide professional translators with improved MT output quality to
reduce (human) post-editing effort
- Adapt the output of a general-purpose system to the lexicon/style
requested in a specific application domain


*DATA & EVALUATION*
Training, development and test materials respectively consist of
English-Spanish triples (source, target and post-edition) from the news
domain kindly provided by Unbabel (http://unbabel.com).

Systems' performance will be evaluated with respect to their capability to
reduce the distance that separates an automatic translation from its
human-revised version. Such distance will be measured in terms of
human-targeted TER (HTER).


*IMPORTANT DATES*
Release of training data: *January 3*1, *2015*
Test set distributed: * April 27*, *2015*
Submission deadline: *May 15, 2015*
Paper submission deadline: June TBD, 2015
Notification of acceptance: July TBD, 2015
Camera-ready deadline: August TBD, 2015

For any information or question on the task, please send an email to:
wmt-ape@fbk.eu
To be always updated about the APE pilot task, you can also join the
wmt-ape group: http://groups.google.com/a/fbk.eu/forum/#!forum/wmt-ape

We hope to see you in Lisbon!
The Ape task Organizers
Rajen Chatterjee
Matteo Negri
Marco Turchi
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Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 08:50:24 +0000
From: Be?ta Megyesi <Beata.Megyesi@lingfil.uu.se>
Subject: [Moses-support] NoDaLiDa 2015: Call for Demos
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[with apologies for cross-posting]

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


CALL FOR DEMONSTRATIONS

The Northern European Association for Language Technology (NEALT)
invites proposals for demonstrations at 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 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 submissions for software or resource demonstrations, e.g. of
systems, interfaces, infrastructures, data collections, or annotations.
Demonstration submissions should outline the nature and scope of what
will be demonstrated, including sufficient detail to allow evaluation
of its validity, quality, and relevance to the NoDaLiDa community and
topics of interest (see above).

Demonstration papers accepted for presentation at the conference will
be included in the NoDaLiDa 2015 proceedings, and 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/

As part of the main conference, demonstrations will be presented parallel
to the poster session(s), where each demonstration will have available
(at least) a table and screen, as well as space for an overview
poster. In case there are technical needs beyond power and (wireless)
network access, these must be specified as part of the submission.

SCHEDULE

+ Monday, March 23, 2015: Submission of Papers
+ Monday, April 6, 2015: Notification of Acceptance
+ Monday, April 13, 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 for demonstrations need not be anonymous. Demonstration
papers must be submitted digitally, in PDF, and uploaded through the
on-line conference system. Paper submissions that violate the format
requirements will be returned without review.

Demonstration papers can be up to three pages long,
excluding any additional pages with bibliographic references.

SUBMISSION MANAGEMENT

Submissions to the conference must be uploaded electronically, obeying
the above requirements and no later than (end of day, world-wide):

+ Monday, March 23, 2015.

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. Submissions will
be reviewed by (at least) two members of the programme committee or by
other 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".

Be?ta Megyesi (Assoc. Prof.)
Head of Department
Dept. of Linguistics and Philology
Uppsala University
beata.megyesi@lingfil.uu.se
http://www.lingfil.uu.se/staff/beata_megyesi




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