NEW: PROCEEDINGS AVAILABLE
Hosted by the Centre for Next Generation Localisation
(CNGL)
Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland
November 12–13, 2009
http://computing.dcu.ie/~mforcada/ebmt3/
Co-chairs:
Following two successful EBMT workshops in 2001 at the MT Summit VIII in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, and in 2005 at the MT Summit X in Phuket, Thailand, this is the third workshop of its kind. Many things have happened since 2005. The last few years have witnessed a decline in example-based machine translation (EBMT) research and statistical machine translation (SMT) has almost completely taken over the corpus-based machine translation arena, with many EBMT practitioners moving into hybrid approaches integrating EBMT with other approaches, mostly (but not only) SMT. Not having a clear definition of what EBMT is has also contributed to this lack of visibility. In fact, research that would have been considered EBMT has been published without the EBMT label.
Is the success of SMT due to the fact that it is the best way to do corpus-based machine translation or is it because many SMT software packages are readily available to researchers under free/open-source licences that allow use as well as collaborative improvement? Shouldn't EBMT practitioners start to think about putting together their tools, their engines and their data and releasing them under open licenses to extend their use both in academia and in industry?
The pressure on machine translation researchers to prove their results through detailed empirical evaluation is growing. But the validity of empirical results hinges on reproducibility. Turning our experimental research into packages and tools that other researchers can use and improve is a challenge but it is not infeasible as SMT practitioners have shown.
DEADLINE
EXTENDED!!
Please submit camera-ready versions of up to 8 pages in PDF format through the Easychair system, conforming to the format of the Easychair LaTeX template (A4 paper size). New!: here are two templates for other word processors: OpenOffice.org and the major commercial word processor. We thank Harold Somers for spotting and correcting some important errors in that last template. Authors are kindly requested to submit the remaining information through the website. It would also be nice if the authors made available also their source files (LaTeX, OpenOffice.org, etc.) to sort out possible formatting problems.
See programme below.
A preliminary programme has been posted.
In addition to being published as part of the (printed and online) Workshop proceedings, revised, extended versions of accepted papers will be eligible for publication in a Special Issue of the journal Machine Translation.
Registration fees include a printed and electronic version of workshop proceedings, all three coffee breaks, lunch on Thursday, and conference dinner on Thursday.
This is the preferred method. To register using your credit card using a secure payment system, follow this link.
On-site registration will also be available for those who cannot use the online registration form, but we can only accept cash in Euro.
We have arranged the following special rates at the Regency Hotel Dublin , which is within walking distance to the venue:
All of the above rates include full Irish breakfast and complimentary use of the hotel's Leisure Club. Bring your swimwear!
To get these rates, mention the reference code EBMT09.
Phone or email reservations directly for any bookings.
The direct line for reservations is (+353) (0)1 8371531 or regency [at] regencyhotels.com
See this document.
If you plan to stay in Dublin for the weekend, be advised that on Saturday 14 there is a Ireland–France FIBA World Cup match that may be attended by visitors from Continental Europe. Book your flights early.
The workshop will be held in room QG21 of the DCU Business School.
Here is OpenStreet Dublin City Map showing the approximate location of the Business School in the north part of the city (Glasnevin). SatNav coordinates: 53° 23' 11" N, 6° 15' 28" W
Here is some additional information on how to get to DCU.
You can read the proceedings of the Workshop. Slides to the talks will be made available as they are received