International Workshop on Using Linguistic Information for Hybrid Machine Translation (LIHMT 2011)

 
 
OpenMT-2 Workshop on Using Linguistic Information for Hybrid Machine Translation

Friday, November 18, 2011. Barcelona, Spain.


The one-day workshop is being organised as part of the dissemination effort of the OpenMT-2 project, a Spanish government funded, three-year, multisite research effort addressing, on the one hand, approaches to integrating structural information (morphological, syntactic and semantic) into open-source SMT and, on the other, to developing novel automatic MT evaluation using linguistically motivated metrics. Thus, the central issues to be addressed during the workshop include:

  • methods and techniques for integrating structural information (syntactic and semantic) into HMT,
  • methods and techniques for handling morphologically rich languages (e.g. Basque) within HMT,
  • alternative approaches to automatic MT evaluation relying on linguistic criteria.

 
The programme will include three invited plenary talks, each addressing one of the central issues above, and the presentation of a number of refereed contributions on related topics. The invited speakers include:

  • Lucia Specia (University of Wolverhampton, UK),
  • Ondrej Bojar (Charles University, Czech Republic),
  • Alon Lavie (Carnegie Mellon University, USA).

 

For further information visit the workshop's website.