Note that the papers and other information gathered together in the Proceedings are now available.
Following the successful EBMT workshop in 2001 at the MT Summit VIII in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, this is the second workshop of its kind. EBMT approaches have evolved since 2001, with some even reaching commercial maturity. Furthermore, a number of new and innovative approaches have been seen. Their common characteristics are to exploit and integrate a number of knowledge resources, such as linguistics and statistics (or symbolic and numerical techniques) for integration into a single framework. In this way, rule-based morphological, syntactic and/or semantic information is combined with knowledge extracted from bi- or monolingual texts which is then re-used in the translation process. We seek to assemble approaches to machine translation which go beyond the purely statistical and/or rule-based paradigms. We welcome visionary and technical descriptions, reports of empirical research as well as feasibility studies and system demonstrations. We would welcome contributions on any of the following topics and sub-headings:
- descriptions of 'pure' EBMT systems
- knowledge resources used
- representation of numeric and symbolic knowledge
- descriptions of 'hybrid' systems
- integration of EBMT with rule-based methods
- integration of EBMT with statistical methods
- (semi-)automatic preparation of existing mono/bi/multilingual corpora for EBMT
- extraction of bi/multilingual texts from the web
- preparation of treebanks for EBMT
- bi/multilingual alignment/bracketing/parsing
- inference of mono/bi/multilingual grammars
- inference of bi/multilingual transfer rules
- evaluation of EBMT results and/or comparison with other MT systems
- considerations on domain-(in)dependence of EBMT systems
- computational and/or system complexity of EBMT systems
Publication
There will be a common publication format for all workshops in line with the main conference proceedings. These will be the usual book format for conference proceedings as well as CD-ROM. However, it is anticipated that the proceedings will be published more widely, as we did in [Carl and Way, 2003]. We have approached relevant publishers in this regard.
Important Dates
Note Extended Deadline!!
- Paper Submission: 6th June 2005
- Notification of acceptance: 27th June 2005
- Camera Ready Papers: 22nd July 2005
- Workshop takes place: 16th September 2005
- paper title,
- author's name(s), affiliation(s), address(es), and e-mail address(es),
- 100--200 word abstract
- some keywords for classifying the submission.
Attendance Fee
Details of registration procedures, including registration fees, will be included here when they have been announced. We still expect that the attendance fee for our workshop will be approx. $70.
Programme
The programme is now available here.
Programme Committee
- Sivaji Bandyopadhyay, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.
- Ralf Brown, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, US.
- Ilyas Cicekli, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey.
- Walter Daelemans, University of Antwerp, Belgium.
- Mary Hearne, Dublin City University, Ireland.
- Eduard Hovy, ISI, University of Southern California, US.
- Sadao Kurohashi, University of Tokyo, Japan.
- Philippe Langlais, RALI, University of Montreal, Canada.
- Yves Lepage, ATR, Kyoto, Japan.
- Stella Markantonatou, ILSP, Athens, Greece.
- Stephen Richardson, Microsoft, US.
- Paul Schmidt, IAI, Saarbruecken
- Satoshi Shirai, NTT, Kawasaki, Japan.
- Michel Simard, Xerox Research Center Europe, Grenoble, France.
- Harold Somers, University of Manchester, UK.
- Oliver Streiter, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
- Eiichiro Sumita, ATR, Kyoto, Japan.
- Dekai Wu, HKUST, Hong Kong.
Andy Way. Last edited: 28th October 2005.