Deadline Estension: EAMT 2017 - Best Thesis Award (April 2nd)
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EAMT 2017 Best Thesis Award
The European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT, http://www.eamt.org) is an organization that serves the growing community of people interested in MT and translation tools, including users, developers, and researchers of this increasingly viable technology.
The EAMT invites entries for its fifth EAMT Best Thesis Award for a PhD or equivalent thesis on a topic related to machine translation.
Eligibility
Researchers who
have completed a PhD (or equivalent) thesis on a relevant topic in a European, Northern African or Middle Eastern institution within calendar year 2016 and
have not previously won another international award for that thesis,
are invited to submit their theses to the EAMT for consideration.
Panel
The submissions will be judged by a panel of experts who will be specifically appointed as part of the EAMT 2017 programme committee and which will be ratified by the Executive Board of the EAMT.
Selection criteria
Each thesis will be judged according to how challenging the problem was, to how relevant the results are for machine translation as a field, and to the strength of their impact in terms of scientific publications.
Scope
The scope of the thesis need not be confined to a technical area, and applications are also invited from students who carried out their research into commercial and management aspects of machine translation.
Possible areas of research include:
development of machine translation or advanced computer-assisted translation: methods, software or resources
machine translation for less-resourced languages
the use of these systems in professional environments (freelance translators, translation agencies, localisation, etc.)
the increasing impact of machine translation on non-professional Internet users and its impact in communications, social networking, etc.
spoken language translation
the integration of machine translation and translation memory systems
the integration of machine translation software in larger IT applications
the evaluation of machine translation systems in real tasks such as those above
the cross-fertilisation between machine translation and other language technologies
Prize
The winner will be announced at the same time as accepted papers for the 20th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation EAMT 2017 (Prague, Czech Republic, May 29-31 2017), and will receive a prize of €500, together with an inscribed certificate. The recipient of the award will be required to briefly present their research at EAMT 2017. In order to facilitate this, the EAMT will waive the winner's registration costs, and will make available a travel bursary of €200 to enable the recipient of the award to attend the said conference. The prize includes complimentary membership in the EAMT for 2017 and 2018.
Submission
Candidates will submit using EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eamt2017 (Submission type: Thesis Award), a single PDF file containing, in this order:
submission form explaining how your thesis fulfills the selection criteria - this will be part of your submission on easychair
a 2-page summary of your thesis in English, containing:
your full contact details,
the name and contact details of your supervisor(s),
a copy of your CV in English (at most one page, plus a complete list of publications directly related to the thesis)
an electronic copy of your thesis
optionally, an appendix with any other relevant information on the thesis
By submitting their work, authors
agree that, in case they are granted the award, any subsequently published version of the thesis should carry the citation "Winner of the 2017 European Association for Machine Translation Best Thesis Award" and
acknowledge the right of the EAMT to publicize the granting of the award.
Closing date
The closing date for submissions will be the same as the deadline for research papers at EAMT 2017: April 2nd, 2017.
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