Following the success of the AMTA 2012 and MT Summit 2013 Workshops on Post-Editing Technology and Practice, we are organizing WPTP3. Once again, this workshop will be an opportunity for post-editing practitioners and researchers to get together and openly discuss the weaknesses and strengths of existing technology, to properly and objectively assess post-editing effectiveness, to establish better practices, and propose tools and technological post-editing solutions that are built around the needs of users.
This one-day workshop will be held during the AMTA conference, in Vancouver (Canada), October 26, 2014. The format of the workshop was changed to make it more interactive this year: the morning session will feature an invited speaker and oral presentations of original work. The afternoon session will include a longer poster/demo session preceded by short "poster-boaster" presentations, and will conclude with a panel discussion. The panel will involve actors from various areas of the post-editing scene (translators and post-editors, translation trainers and scholars, LSPs, technology researchers and industrials) and will be moderated by AMTA president Mike Dillinger.
We are particularly interested in attracting original papers on the following themes, but also welcome other ideas which touch on potential fruitful human-machine collaborations for translation:
Post-editing user interface design and evaluation
Tools for crowd and community post-editing
Automatic prediction of post-editing effort
Error-detection and error-correction for post-editing
Innovative uses of post-editor feedback
Innovative uses of MT data for post-editing
Integration of MT with translation memory and other CAT tools
Text pre- and post-processing for post-editing
Post-editing and mobile devices
Post-editing evaluation methodology and metrics
Collecting and sharing post-editing data
Best practices for post-editing
Training for post-editing
We also invite one-page descriptions of interesting tools related to post-editing, including commercial products, in-house systems and open source software. Authors should be ready to present demos of the tools during the workshop. See Demo submission instructions below.
May 15: Call for Papers
July 30: Submission deadline
September 8: Notifications to authors
September 22: Camera-ready versions due
October 26: Workshop
The format for original papers is the same as for regular AMTA 2014 submissions:
Papers must not exceed 12 (twelve) pages plus 2 (two) pages for references. All papers should follow the formatting instructions included with the style files, and should be submitted in PDF. Latex, PDF and MS Word style files are available at: http://amta2014.amtaweb.org/CFP.aspx
To allow for blind reviewing, please do not include author names and affiliations within the paper and avoid obvious self-references.
Papers must be submitted by 11:59 pm PDT (GMT - 7 hours), July 30, 2014, using the START conference management system. Please use the following link to submit: https://www.softconf.com/amta2014/wptp2014/.
Demo submissions consist of a 1-page product description. They should not be anonymized. Please email your demo submissions directly to Lucia Specia (lspecia@gmail.com) by 11:59 pm PDT (GMT - 7 hours), July 30, 2014.