Call for Papers: FreeRBMT12 (Rule-Based Machine Translation, Gothenburg)

[Aarne Ranta]

FreeRBMT12: SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

  Third International Workshop on 

  Free/Open-source Rule-based Machine Translation

  Gothenburg, Sweden, 13-15 June 2012

  http://www.chalmers.se/hosted/​freerbmt12-en

NEW: proceedings in CSLI Studies in Computational Linguistics ONLINE

This workshop aims to bring together the experience of researchers

and developers in the field of rule-based machine translation who

have decided to get on board the free/open-source train and are

effectively contributing to creating a commons of explicit knowledge:

machine translation rules and dictionaries, and machine translation

systems whose behaviour is transparent and clearly traceable through

their explicit logic.

The previous FreeRBMT workshops took place in Barcelona (2011)

and Alacant/Alicante (2009).

==Scope==

The main areas of interest for the workshop are as follows:

- Language-independent toolkits, platforms, and frameworks for

  rule-based machine translation

- Language-specific machine translation systems

- Hybrid systems where RBMT is an important component

- Manual and automated evaluation of machine translation systems,

  comparative evaluation of RBMT and SMT/hybrid systems.

- Linguistic resources for RBMT (machine-readable dictionaries,

  part-of-speech taggers, morphological analysers, syntactic or

  semantic parsers etc.)

- Methods for inducing/inferring data for RBMT systems (supervised,

  semi-supervised or unsupervised)

- Interoperability between systems, tools, data

- Practical descriptions of RBMT integration and usage (in publishing,

  by professional translators, for free/open-source software)

Note that this is intended as a guideline, and we welcome submissions

on other aspects of free and open-source rule-based machine translation.

==Submission==

The submission will be via EasyChair. Papers in PDF have the maximum length

of 12 pages. Submission details will appear on the web page soon.

- Deadline:     7 April 2012

- Notification: 5 May 2012

==Proceedings==

Proceedings will be published in the series

  CSLI Studies in Computational Linguistics ONLINE. 

This series is freely accessible on the web. See

  for the series:

  http://www-csli.stanford.edu/​pubs/

  -> Series -> CSLI Studies in Computational Linguistics ONLINE

  for style files and formatting instructions:

  http://www-csli.stanford.edu/​pubs/

  -> for authors

==Invited speakers==

As invited speaker, we will have the pleasure to hear

- Martin Kay, Stanford University and Saarland University

==Programme Committee==

- Krasimir Angelov, Chalmers University of Technology

- Emily M. Bender, University of Washington

- Pierrette Bouillon, University of Geneva

- Lauri Carlson, University of Helsinki

- Marc Dymetman, XRCE Xerox

- Cristina España-Bonet, UPC Barcelona

- Mikel Forcada, Universitat d'Alacant

- Michael Gasser, Indiana University

- Philipp Koehn, University of Edinburgh

- Hrafn Loftsson, Reykjavik University

- Lluís Màrquez, UPC Barcelona

- Lluís Padró, UPC Barcelona

- Juan Antonio Pérez-Ortiz, Universitat d'Alacant

- Aarne Ranta, University of Gothenburg (Programme Chair)

- Manny Rayner, University of Geneva

- Kepa Sarasola, University of the Basque Country

- Kevin Scannell, Saint Louis University

- Khalil Sima'an, University of Amsterdam

- Felipe Sánchez-Martínez, Universitat d'Alacant

- Anna Sågvall Hein, Uppsala University and Convertus AB

- Antonio Toral, Dublin City University

- Trond Trosterud, University of Tromsø

- Francis Tyers, Universitat d'Alacant

- Luis Villarejo, UOC Barcelona

==Practical details==

The main workshop will be 13-14 June, with satellite events on 15 June 

(to be announced).

The fee will be around 100 EUR, covering lunches, coffee breaks, and a boat

trip and dinner in the Gothenburg archipelago.

More details will appear soon on the FreeRBMT12 web page,

http://www.chalmers.se/hosted/​freerbmt12-en

[Sebastià Xambó]

Aarne Ranta -- 21/03/2012, 9:13

FreeRBMT12: SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

Thanks for the info.

Oct 2003 review of Tim Gowers' VSI to Mathematics.

Were the arrangements concerning the MOLTO review fine? And the review itself?

I wish you a pleasant the trip back.

SX.