Moses-support Digest, Vol 149, Issue 12

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Today's Topics:

1. Fwd: Organizers' communications for LoResMT workshop at MT
Summit 2019 (Atul Kr. Ojha)
2. Fwd: CfP: 2nd Workshop on Technologies for MT of Low Resource
Languages (LoResMT 2019 at MT Summit XVII) (Atul Kr. Ojha)


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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2019 21:04:25 +0530
From: "Atul Kr. Ojha" <shashwatup9k@gmail.com>
Subject: [Moses-support] Fwd: Organizers' communications for LoResMT
workshop at MT Summit 2019
To: moses-support <moses-support@mit.edu>
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Thanks and regards,
Atul



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From: Chao-Hong <ch.liu@acm.org>
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2019 at 08:53
Subject: Organizers' communications for LoResMT workshop at MT Summit 2019
To: Chao-Hong Liu <chaohong.liu@adaptcentre.ie>, <nmzxb_cn@163.com>,
Jonathan Washington <jwashin1@swarthmore.edu>, Nathaniel Oco <
nathanoco@yahoo.com>, Valentin Malykh <valentin@ipavlov.ai>, Alina
Karakanta <alina.karakanta@uni-saarland.de>, <lakew@fbk.eu>, Atul Kr. Ojha <
shashwatup9k@gmail.com>


Dear all,

1. I have updated the website based on MT Summit and our comments. I would
like to publish the news at 13:00 on March 19. Please take a look and see
if there is any problem. I will modify if any. Thank you very much!

LoResMT @ MT Summit 2019
https://sites.google.com/view/loresmt/

LoResMT @ AMTA 2018
https://sites.google.com/view/loresmt-2018/

2. Information regarding LoResMT 2019 organization are listed here; please
feel free to modify if any.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GR4ImOiadHeqsu1x1bXra3_Nbvgwi0G-WvXzCo1sDSY

It would require a gmail account to access the sheet (and website).

3. The plan on shared tasks is not finalized yet. I will keep you updated
if any. Please also feel free to discuss if you have any idea/suggestion.

Happy (belated) St. Patty's Day!!

Kind regards,

Chao-Hong

On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 2:29 AM Chao-Hong <ch.liu@acm.org> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> Happy Lantern Festival!!
>
> I am happy to inform you that our 2nd LoResMT proposal has been accepted
> by MT Summit 2019.
>
> 1. The workshop will be held on August 20, half-day.
>
> 2. Please do let me know asap if you would like to organize a shared task
> within the workshop.
>
> 3. Should you have any idea/comment/suggestion, please reply to this email
> by Feb 26 (next Tuesday). We are scheduled to respond to MT Summit
> organizers by Mar 1.
>
> 4. Please also let me know if you need an invitation letter to make travel
> arrangements.
>
> 5. Please do feel free to reply to the email thread (or me) if any. I will
> formulate our responses to MT Summit 2019 then.
>
> Thank you very much. Congratulations to all!
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Chao-Hong
>
> *Chao-Hong Liu* | PhD; Marie Sk?odowska-Curie fellow (MSCA RISE)
> ADAPT Centre
> School of Computing m: +353 (0) 89 247 3035
> Dublin City University e: chaohong.liu@adaptcentre.ie
> Dublin 9, Ireland www.adaptcentre.ie
> <https://twitter.com/adaptcentre>
> <https://www.facebook.com/ADAPTCentre?fref=ts>
> <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9--qVutTtyLyhZCJR7rY5g>
> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/adapt-centre>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: MT Summit 2019 <mtsummit2019@easychair.org>
> Date: Sat, Feb 16, 2019 at 10:01 AM
> Subject: MT Summit XVII, notification for workshop proposal 8
> To: Chao-Hong Liu <chaohong.liu@adaptcentre.ie>
>
>
> Dear Chao-Hong,
>
> We are pleased to inform you that your workshop proposal
>
> The Second Workshop on Technologies for MT of Low-Resource Languages
>
> has been accepted to be held as part of the 17th Machine Translation
> Summit.
>
> Please find below the date (19th or 20th August) and duration for the
> workshop (half or full day) as well as some comments, preceded by the
> symbols + (elements that we particularly liked in your workshop proposal)
> and - (elements that we find limitations and/or for which we would like to
> get a clarification from you, **by March 1st**).
>
> In addition, we would like to remind you that, if your workshop will have
> proceedings, the submissions should adhere to the MT Summit 2019 style
> guide. See https://www.mtsummit2019.com/submissions.
>
> Best wishes,
> Antonio Toral (Workshops chair), also on behalf of Andy Way (Overall
> conference chair)
>
>
> ----------------------- REVIEW 1 ---------------------
> PAPER: 8
> TITLE: The Second Workshop on Technologies for MT of Low-Resource Languages
> AUTHORS: Chao-Hong Liu, Xiaobing Zhao, Jonathan Washington, Nathaniel Oco,
> Valentin Malykh, Alina Karakanta, Surafel Melaku Lakew and Atul Kr. Ojha
>
> Overall evaluation: 3 (strong accept)
>
> ----------- Overall evaluation -----------
> Half day, 20th
> + The topic is highly relevant to the conference.
> - The wording of the workshop proposal is a bit confusing at times. We
> suggest to rewrite some parts to make it more clear if you use that text
> for your call for submissions.
> - Please inform us as to whether you plan to accept papers or abstracts.
> If they are papers, what is the deadline for their camera ready versions?
> - Please inform us on the expected structure of the workshop: will it
> consist of talks only? how long is each talk expected to take? etc.
>
>
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2019 21:06:37 +0530
From: "Atul Kr. Ojha" <shashwatup9k@gmail.com>
Subject: [Moses-support] Fwd: CfP: 2nd Workshop on Technologies for MT
of Low Resource Languages (LoResMT 2019 at MT Summit XVII)
To: moses-support <moses-support@mit.edu>
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Thanks and regards,
Atul



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From: Chao-Hong Liu <chaohong.liu@adaptcentre.ie>
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2019 at 20:46
Subject: CfP: 2nd Workshop on Technologies for MT of Low Resource Languages
(LoResMT 2019 at MT Summit XVII)
To: <mt-list@eamt.org>, <corpora@uib.no>
Cc: Chao-Hong Liu <chaohong.liu@adaptcentre.ie>, <nmzxb_cn@163.com>,
Jonathan Washington <jwashin1@swarthmore.edu>, Nathaniel Oco <
nathanoco@yahoo.com>, Valentin Malykh <valentin@ipavlov.ai>, Alina
Karakanta <alina.karakanta@uni-saarland.de>, <lakew@fbk.eu>, Atul Kr. Ojha <
shashwatup9k@gmail.com>


[Apologies for multiple postings]

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2nd Workshop on Technologies for MT of Low Resource Languages (LoResMT
2019)
The Helix, DCU, Dublin, August 20, 2019
https://sites.google.com/view/loresmt/
@ MT Summit 2019 (https://www.mtsummit2019.com/)
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BRIEF

1. Call for papers: Submission due on "May 24, 2019"

2. Please find below the proceeding and slides of LoResMT 2018. Works on
several low resource languages, e.g. Filipino, Finnish, Irish, Latvian,
Mongolian, Quechua, Tibetan, and Uyghur, are presented.

https://amtaweb.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/AMTA_2018_Workshop_Proceedings_LoResMT.pdf
https://sites.google.com/view/loresmt-2018/

SCOPES

Machine translation (MT) technologies have been improved significantly in
the last two decades, with the developments on phrased-based statistical MT
(SMT) and recently the neural MT (NMT). However, most of these methods rely
on the availability of large parallel data (millions to tens of millions
sentence pairs) in the training, which are resources that do not exist in
many language pairs.

In addition, MT methods still rely on a few natural language processing
(NLP) tools to help pre-process human generated texts in the forms that are
required as input for these methods, and/or post-process the output in
proper textual forms in target languages. In many MT systems, the
performance of these tools has great impacts on the quality of the
resulting translation. These NLP tools include, but not limited to, several
kinds of word tokenizers/de-tokenizers, word segmenters, morphology
analyzers, etc.

The workshop solicits papers on MT systems/methods for low resource
languages in general. We also solicit papers dedicated to these
supplementary NLP tools that are used in any language and especially in low
resource languages. We would like to have an overview of research on MT for
low resource languages and these NLP tools from our community.

TOPICS

We solicit original research papers, review papers, and position papers on
MT research for low resource languages in the workshop. Multilingual and/or
cross-lingual NLP tools for low resource languages are especially welcome.
Topics of the workshop include but are not limited to:

- Research and review papers of pre-processing and/or post-processing NLP
tools for MT
- Position papers on the development of pre-processing and/or
post-processing tools for MT
- Word tokenizers/de-tokenizers for specific languages
- Word/morpheme segmenters for specific languages
- Alignment/Re-ordering tools for specific language pairs
- Use of morphology analysers and/or morpheme segmenters in MT
- Multilingual/cross-lingual NLP tools for MT
- Re-usability of existing NLP tools for low resource languages
- Corpora creation and curation technologies for low resource languages
- Review of available parallel corpora for low resource languages
- Research and review papers of MT methods for low resource languages
- MT systems/methods (e.g. rule-based, PBMT, NMT) for low resource languages
- Pivot MT for low resource languages
- Zero-shot MT for low resource languages
- Fast building of MT systems for low resource languages
- Reusability of existing MT systems for low resource languages
- Machine translation for language preservation

SUBMISSION INFORMATION

Workshop papers should adhere to MT Summit 2019 style guide (LaTeX,
OpenOffice, Word).
https://www.mtsummit2019.com/submissions

There are two types of submissions in the workshop. For research, review
and position papers, the length of each paper should be at least four (4)
and not exceed eight (8) pages, plus unlimited pages for references. More
pages would be allowed as long as it could be justified. The review will be
double-blinded. For non-archival system demonstration abstracts, the limit
is four (4) pages. The review will be single-blind.

We would like to encourage authors to cite papers written in ANY language
that are related to the topics, as long as both original bibliographic
items and their corresponding English translations are provided.

IMPORTANT DATES

March 19, 2019: Call for papers
April 19, 2019: 2nd Call for papers
May 24, 2019: Submission deadline of workshop papers
June 21, 2019: Notification of acceptance
July 12, 2019: Camera-ready papers due
July 19, 2019: Workshop proceeding on-line
August 21, 2018: LoResMT workshop

ORGANIZERS (listed alphabetically)

Alina Karakanta FBK-Fondazione Bruno Kessler
Atul Kr. Ojha Panlingua Language Processing LLP/Jawaharlal Nehru
University
Chao-Hong Liu ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University
Jonathan Washington Swarthmore College
Nathaniel Oco National University (Philippines)
Surafel Melaku Lakew FBK-Fondazione Bruno Kessler
Valentin Malykh Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
Xiaobing Zhao Minzu University of China

CONTACT

chaohong.liu@adaptcentre.ie


LoResMT @ MT Summit 2019
https://sites.google.com/view/loresmt/

LoResMT @ AMTA 2018
https://sites.google.com/view/loresmt-2018/
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