EuroMatrix+ Project and CNGL Second Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop

At the AMTA 2010 conference, to be held October 31—November 5, 2010 in Denver, Colorado, the EuroMatrix+ Project and the Centre for Next Generation Localisation are organising the Second Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop, titled “Bringing MT to the User: Research on Integrating MT in the Translation Industry”. The workshop will take place in Denver, Colorado on 4 November 2010, immediately after the main AMTA 2010 conference.

Recent years have seen a revolution in MT triggered by the emergence of statistical approaches to MT and improvements in translation quality. MT (rule-based, statistical and hybrid) is now available for many languages for free on the Web and is making strong inroads into the corporate localisation and translation industries. Open-source MT solutions are competing with proprietary products. Increasing numbers of translators are post-editing TM/MT output. At the same time, there has been some disconnect between academic research on MT, which (rightly so) focuses on algorithms to increase translation quality, and many of the practical issues that need to be addressed to make MT maximally useful in real translation and localisation scenarios.

This workshop will bring together MT researchers, developers, industrial users and translators to discuss issues that are most important in real world industrial settings involving MT, but currently not very popular in research circles.

Workshop Chairs:
Ventsislav Zhechev
Philipp Koehn
Josef van Genabith

For the Call for Papers for the workshop and additional details please visit http://web.me.com/emcnglworkshop/JEC2010/Home.html