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Today's Topics:

1. 2nd CfP - Volume on Multi-word Units in Machine Translation
and Translation Technology
(MONTI JOHANNA -Professore associato scienze umanistiche e sociali-d)
2. Re: Reference about tuning the BLEU coefficients (Philipp Koehn)
3. Re: Clarification of "Compact Phrase Table" instructions
(Philipp Koehn)


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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2015 23:46:24 +0100
From: "MONTI JOHANNA -Professore associato scienze umanistiche e
sociali-d" <jmonti@uniss.it>
Subject: [Moses-support] 2nd CfP - Volume on Multi-word Units in
Machine Translation and Translation Technology
To: jmonti@uniss.it
Message-ID: <20150202224337.M77719@uniss.it>
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Volume on Multi-word Units in MachineTranslation and Translation Technology

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2 nd CALL FOR PAPERS

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Background: Following the successful workshop onMulti-word Units in Machine Translation and Translation Technology held inconjunction with the MT SUMMIT 2013 conference in Nice (MUMTTT 2013, 3 September 2013), the editorsinvite submissions for a volume on the same topics to be published by JohnBenjamins during the second half of 2015.

This volume will feature contributions reporting recent advances in thetopics which cut across Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, TranslationStudies and Computational Phraseology. We invite submissions describing substantialwork related to the processing of multi?word units (MWUs) on topics including,but not limited to, the ones listed below. Authors of the MUMTTT 2013 workshoppapers are invited to submit extended and revised versions of their papers, butthis call is open to all researchers working on relevant topics and willing toshare their work.? Submissions will bereviewed by at least three reviewers.

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Topics (the list below is indicative but not exhaustive):

Lexical, syntactic, semantic and translational aspects in MWU representation

Collostructional analysis and MWU

Automatic extraction of multilingual MWU resources

Identification and acquisition of multi-word terms and their variants

Development and use of handcrafted MWU linguistic resources in MT

MWUs in Computer-assisted Translation

MWUs in Machine Translation

Paraphrasing of MWUs applied to the improving of MT

MWUs and word alignment techniques

Learning semantic information about MWUs from monolingual, parallel orcomparable corpora

Multilingualism and MWU processing

MWU-centred MT evaluation

Compilation of resources for extraction and translation of multiwordunits

Corpora annotated with MWUs for translation studies

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Submission: We invite full submissions by 28 February 2015 by email to both contacteditors below, including the chapter title, list of authors, affiliation and a250-word abstract. The full submission is expected to be approximatively 5,000words in length, excluding citations and appendices, and should be formattedaccording to the publisher?s author guidelines (https://benjamins.com/jbp/additional/jb-guidelines-manuscript-submission-apa.pdf). Submissions should describe original work, not published before orunder consideration for publication elsewhere. Each submission will beevaluated by the scientific committee according to its scientific and technicalmerit, usefulness of the approach presented, and relevance to the volume scope.

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Schedule

Expression of interest: 1 November 2014

Full submission: 28 February 2015(possible also without having sent the expression of interest before)

Author notification: 15 April2015

Final version: 15 May 2015

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Editors

Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom)

Johanna Monti (University of Sassari, Italy)?

Gloria Corpas Pastor (University of M?laga, Spain)

Violeta Seretan (University of Geneva, Switzerland)

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Contact Details

Johanna Monti (jmonti@uniss.it) and Gloria Corpas Pastor (lexytrad@uma.es).


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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2015 22:09:32 -0500
From: Philipp Koehn <phi@jhu.edu>
Subject: Re: [Moses-support] Reference about tuning the BLEU
coefficients
To: "Mikel L. Forcada" <mlf@dlsi.ua.es>
Cc: "moses-support@mit.edu" <moses-support@mit.edu>
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Hi,

while the original BLEU paper mentions co-efficients, there are not used
(i.e., all are set to 1/4).

There have efforts to create tunable metrics, but these are not widely used.

-phi

On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 4:34 AM, Mikel L. Forcada <mlf@dlsi.ua.es> wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> the correlation of BLEU with manual measurements of quality has
> extensively been studied (Callison-Burch et al., WMT "Findings" paper).
> But, would anyone know of any paper where people have actually tuned the
> BLEU coefficients to approximate some kind of manual measurement of
> quality? This is hard to search for as most papers talk about tuning the
> coefficients of something else to BLEU.
>
> Thanks a million!
>
> All the best,
>
> Mikel
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2015 22:27:13 -0500
From: Philipp Koehn <phi@jhu.edu>
Subject: Re: [Moses-support] Clarification of "Compact Phrase Table"
instructions
To: Tom Hoar <tahoar@precisiontranslationtools.com>
Cc: "moses-support@mit.edu" <moses-support@mit.edu>, "english, Russian
and Ukrainian Translator" <sergei@korniyenko.biz>
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Hi,

I fixed the web site.

-phi

On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 3:17 AM, Tom Hoar
<tahoar@precisiontranslationtools.com> wrote:
> Thanks guys.
>
> I thought remembered the change. Website just just gave me a double-take.
>
>
> On 02/01/2015 03:10 PM, Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt wrote:
>
> Hi,
> yes, that should be "with 4 scores". Also "-nscores 4" is not required
> anymore if there are four scores, I set 4 as the default now. You only need
> -nscores N with a non-standard number of scores.
>
> W dniu 01.02.2015 o 06:20, Raj Dabre pisze:
>
> Hi,
>
> AFAIK the phrase table used to have 5 scores per phrase pair... the 5th one
> being 2.18.
> Now it has 4.
> Maybe someone forgot to update the description ?
>
> Regards.
>
> On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Tom Hoar
> <tahoar@precisiontranslationtools.com> wrote:
>>
>> The AdvancedFeatures page,
>> http://www.statmt.org/moses/?n=Moses.AdvancedFeatures, includes this text:
>>
>> Here is an example (standard phrase table phrase-table, with 5 scores)
>> which produces a single file phrase-table.minphr:
>>
>> mosesdecoder/bin/processPhraseTableMin -in phrase-table.gz -out
>> phrase-table -nscores 4 -threads 4
>>
>>
>> The text refers to "5 scores" yet the example shows "-nscores 4". Is that
>> intended?
>>
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