Welcome to the home page of The 2nd Workshop on Neural Machine Translation and Generation (WNMT 2018) to be held in Melbourne on July 20, 2018 after ACL!
Neural sequence to sequence models are now a workhorse behind a wide variety of different natural language processing tasks such as machine translation, generation, summarization and simplification. This workshop aims to provide a forum for research in applications of neural models to machine translation and other language generation tasks (including summarization, NLG from structured data, dialog response generation, among others).
The First Workshop on Neural Machine Translation (WNMT 2017) was held at ACL 2017 and attracted more than 160 participants with 15 accepted papers from 24 submissions. Notably, the accepted papers covered not only algorithmic advances similar to those presented at the main conference, but also a number of high-quality papers analyzing the current state of affairs in neural MT, which were of great interest to the focused research community that the workshop attracted. This year, we aim to complement the main conference with which WNMT is located by trying to achieve the following goals:
We will also feature invited talks from leading researchers (last year: Chris Dyer, Kevin Knight, Alexander Rush, Quoc Le, this year confirmed: Jacob Devlin, Rico Sennrich) in the field, and also accept submissions of both completed and forward-looking work which will be presented either as oral presentations or during a poster session.
Topics of Interest
The workshop is broad in scope and invites original research contributions on all topics where neural networks are involved in the field of machine translation. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:
Invited Speakers
The below invited speakers have accepted our invitations, and more speakers are pending.
Venue
ACL'18
Workshop Logistics