Written by Alexander Raginsky On April 30 and May 1, the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT) sponsored a two half-day workshop on training translator trainers to teach machine translation. The objective was to provide trainers with the necessary understanding, confidence and skills to teach machine translation to translators. The SALIS department at the Dublin City University organized the
Written by Alexander Raginsky Student Research Workshop associated with the conference ‘Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing’ http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2015/ranlpStud2015 Further to the previous successful and highly competitive Student Research Workshops associated with the conference ‘Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing’ (RANLP, in 2009, 2011, and 2013), we are pleased to announce the fourth edition of the workshop which will be
Written by Alexander Raginsky Sixty years ago this week, scientists at Georgetown and IBM lauded their machine translation “brain,” known as the 701 computer. The “brain” had successfully translated multiple sentences from Russian into English, leading the researchers to confidently claim that translation would be fully handled by machines in “the next few years.” Fast forward six decades, and
Written by Alexander Raginsky We are living through one of the most decisive moments in machine translation history. The funding landscape in Europe is changing dramatically: the MosesCore project concluded the series of support projects for the Moses system funded by the European Commission. Now the project has come to an end, Moses as a commercial MT solution is
Written by Alexander Raginsky It is my pleasure to announce the release of the Autodesk Post-Editing Data corpus with the ISLRN 290-859-676-529-5 (http://www.islrn.org/resources/identify_islrn/). This resource contains parallel English source–MT/TM target segments post-edited into several languages (Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Spanish) with between 30000 and 410000 segments per language.
Written by Alexander Raginsky The Computational Linguistics Research Group at the University of Wolverhampton is offering a Master of Arts in Language and Information Processing (MA LIP). The duration of study is one year full time, or between two and four years part time. Graduates of MA LIP will become specialists in language and information processing. As the teaching
Written by Alexander Raginsky First Machine Translation Marathon in the Americas, Urbana-Champaign, IL, May 10th-15th, 2015 Grants For Students We are pleased to be able to offer a limited number of student bursaries to enable students new to the field to attend the marathon. These bursaries are aimed principally at first year PhD students or equivalent, who don’t have
Written by Alexander Raginsky CALL FOR NAACL SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS TO the 2015 Jelinek Summer School in Speech and Language Technology CALL FOR PAPERS CALL FOR NAACL SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS TO the 2015 Jelinek Summer School in Speech and Language Technology Summer School Dates: June 22 (M) – July 2 (Thurs), 2015 Location: Dept. of Electrical Engineering University of Washington Seattle,
Written by Alexander Raginsky Bloomberg is happy to announce the next round of the Bloomberg Research Grant Program. Applications are invited in the broadly-defined area of data science, including machine translation. Deadline: May 20, 2015. The program makes awards of up to $150,000 for one year to full-time faculty members at universities. These awards are structured as unrestricted gifts.
Written by Alexander Raginsky Software Localization Spring School March 2 to 6, 2015 Anhalt University of Applied Sciences,Köthen Campus The Department of Computer Science and Languages of the Anhalt University of Applied Sciences offers a spring school “Software Localization”. This one-week event addresses students and translation-related professionals interested in further education in the field of software localization. In all
