Statistical Multilingual Analysis for Retrieval and Translation
9:30-17:00, Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Aula Telensenyament, Building B3
UPC, Campus Nord
Statistical Machine Learning has many points of contact with Statistical Machine Translation. This workshop presents recent work within this intersection. It is sponsored both by the Pascal Network of Excellence and the EU-funded SMART project. This is a 3 years project aimed at addressing a range of problems in Machine Translation and Cross-Language Information Retrieval using modern Statistical Learning methods.
One aim of this workshop is to disseminate scientific results and shared experiences from the SMART project to the larger technical and scientific community. More importantly, it is an opportunity to strenghten the connections between the Machine Translation and Machine Learning communities.
For further details on the workshop, see:
http://patterns.enm.bris.ac.uk/smart-dissemination-workshop
Machine Translation Technology for Historical Languages
10:00-16:30, Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Sala Juntes, Rectorat
UPC, Campus Nord
During last years a lot of effort has been put in digitalisation of old manuscripts and making them available in form of digital libraries.
Most part of these libraries are available not only to researchers in a certain domain (classical philology, historians) but also to normal users. This raises new requirements to the functionalities offered by such digital libraries. Texts are written either in classical languages (ancient Greek, Latin) or in historic variants of nowadays language that cannot be understood as well by untrained people. The access of normal users to the content of these libraries can be really acquired only by providing translations.
The aim of this workshop is to join together researchers working in this interdisciplinary domain as well as specialists in machine translation working with languages with few resources, to analyse problems and brainstorm solutions in order to enforce machine (aided) translation for historical texts.
For further details on the workshop, see:
http://www.c-phil.uni-hamburg.de/view/Main/MTHistWorkshop