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Today's Topics:

1. LMs for factors unused make the decoder fail (Stanislav Ku??k)
2. NoDaLiDa 2015: FINAL Call for Demos (Be?ta Megyesi)
3. TweetMT @ SEPLN 2015 (Cristina)
4. Forbidden link to binaries (Per Tunedal)


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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 08:01:10 +0000 (UTC)
From: Stanislav Ku??k <standa.kurik@gmail.com>
Subject: [Moses-support] LMs for factors unused make the decoder fail
To: moses-support@mit.edu
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Hello,

when a train a model with 0,2-0,2 translation factors and I also attach
a LMs for a different factor (1 or 3 in this case), running the decoder
fails. Commenting these other LMs out in the INI file fixes this.

It's not a critical issue, it just strikes me as odd that LMs which
should not be used in the decoding process at all (yes, they are loaded,
but they should not be consulted at all, if I am correct) make it fail.

Regards,
Stanislav K.



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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 12:05:54 +0000
From: Be?ta Megyesi <Beata.Megyesi@lingfil.uu.se>
Subject: [Moses-support] NoDaLiDa 2015: FINAL 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


FINAL 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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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 08:35:58 +0100
From: Cristina <cristinae@cs.upc.edu>
Subject: [Moses-support] TweetMT @ SEPLN 2015
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Apologies for multiple postings
*************************************************************************TweetMT
2015--Tweet Translation Workshop at SEPLN 2015

TweetMT is a workshop and shared task on machine translation applied to
tweets. It will take place in September, 2015, in Alicante, co-located with
SEPLN 2015 (to be confirmed). The objective of the task is to bring
together interested researchers to join forces to experiment with and
compare different approaches to tweet MT. This workshop is a follow-up to
two other workshops organized previously also at SEPLN: TweetNorm2013 and
TweetLID2014.

The machine translation of tweets is a complex task that greatly depends on
the type of data we work with. The translation process of tweets is very
different from that of correct texts posted for instance through a content
manager. Tweets are often written from mobile devices, which exacerbates
the poor quality of the spelling, and include errors, symbols and
diacritics. The texts also vary in terms of structure, where the latter
include tweet-specific features such as hashtags, user mentions, and
retweets, among others. The translation of tweets can be tackled as a
direct translation (tweet-to-tweet) or as an indirect translation (tweet
normalization to standard text (Kaufmann&Kalita, 2011), text translation
and, if needed, tweet generation). Although the first approach looks
attractive, the lack of parallel or comparable tweets for the working
languages (Petrovic et al., 2010) tends to lead us towards an indirect
approach. Some authors also try to gather similar tweets in other languages
(CLIR).

Work in this area is scarce in the literature but a growing interest is
evident (Gotti et al., 2013). An important point of reference is the work
done to translate SMS texts during the Haiti earthquake (Munro, 2010).

The current task will focus on MT of tweets between languages of the
Iberian Peninsula (Basque, Catalan, Galician, Portuguese and Spanish), as
well as English. The organizing committee will release development data
including parallel tweets that will enable participants to train their
systems. For the final evaluation participants will have to submit the
automatic translation of a number of tweet corpora in a short period of
time. The evaluation will be carried out using automatic distances to the
reference corpora.

These corpora are not meant to be representative of all types of messages
that can be observed in informal communication. This is instead an initial
attempt at tackling part of the task which starts by addressing one of its
simplest parts. We are planing on using more informal and varied corpora in
future tasks as we make progress on these initial issues.

The workshop aims to be a forum where researchers will have a chance to
compare their methods, systems and results.
Important dates

- *March **1*: Registration opened
- *April 17*: Release of the development-set
- *May **12*: Registration deadline
- *May 19*: Release of the test-set
- *May 21*: Result submission deadline
- *May 22-June 12*: Manual evaluation. Publication of results
- *July 3*: Short paper submission deadline
- *July 31*: Papers? camera ready version
- *September **14 *or* 15*: Workshop

Organizing CommitteeI?aki Alegria (UPV/EHU)
Nora Aranberri (UPV/EHU)
Cristina Espa?a-Bonet (UPC)
Pablo Gamallo (USC)
Eva Mart?nez (UPC)
Hugo Oliveira (Universidade de Coimbra)
I?aki San Vicente (Elhuyar)
Antonio Toral (DCU, Dublin)
Arkaitz Zubiaga (University of Warwick)
Proceedings
The papers of the workshop will be published In the proceedings of ?XXXI
Congreso de la Sociedad Espa?ola de Procesamiento de lenguaje natural?.
Proceedings of the workshop will be also published in the CEUR Workshop
Proceedings digital publication service. Information
http://komunitatea.elhuyar.org/tweetmt
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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 15:22:21 +0100
From: Per Tunedal <per.tunedal@operamail.com>
Subject: [Moses-support] Forbidden link to binaries
To: moses-support@mit.edu
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Hi,
I just read the page http://www.statmt.org/moses/?n=Moses.Releases and
tried the link to the binaries:

All the binary executables are made available for download for users who
do not wish to compile their own version.

Clicking on download gets me to the page
http://www.statmt.org/moses/RELEASE-1.0/binaries/
showing the message:

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /moses/RELEASE-1.0/binaries/ on this
server.

Yours,
Per Tunedal


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