Please note extended submission deadline!
Following the success of the AMTA 2012, MT Summit 2013, and AMTA 2014 Workshops on Post-Editing Technology and Practice, we are organizing WPTP4 (http://wptp2015.postediting.org). 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 MT Summit 2015 conference, in Miami, Florida on November 03, 2015. It will be co-located with the ATA conference 2015 and professional translators are very welcome to attend and to contribute.
We are particularly interested in original papers on the following themes, but also welcome other ideas which touch on potential fruitful human-machine collaborations for translation:
Best practices for post-editing
Collecting and sharing post-editing data
Post-editing guidelines, their usefulness and challenges
Integration of MT with translation memory and other CAT tools
Post-editing user interface design
Training for post-editing
Post-editing evaluation methodology and metrics
Post-editing and quality expectations
Cognitive processes of post-editing
Tools for crowd and community post-editing
Automatic prediction of post-editing effort
Perceptions regarding post-editing effort and actual effort
Automatic learning from post-editing data
Error-detection and error-correction for post-editing
Innovative uses of post-editor feedback
Text pre- and post-processing for post-editing
We also invite one-page descriptions of interesting tools related to post-editing, including commercial products, in-house systems, research prototypes and open source software. Authors should be ready to present demos of the tools during the workshop. See Demo submission instructions below.
May 5: Call for papers
July 20: Paper submission deadline
July 31: Demo submission deadline
September 11: Notifications to authors
October 02: Final versions of papers due
November 03: Workshop
The format for original papers is the same as for regular MT Summit 2015 submissions:
Papers must not exceed 12 (twelve) pages plus 4 (four) 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: mtsummit2015 mtsummit2015 mtsummit2015.latex
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 to the START system by 11:59 pm PDT (GMT – 7 hours), Monday July 13, 2015: https://www.softconf.com/mtsummit-xv/WPTP4.
Multiple Submissions: Papers presented at WPTP must represent new work that has not been previously published. It is the responsibility of the author(s) to inform the organizers of any potential problem with respect to this requirement. Authors submitting a similar paper both to WPTP and another conference or workshop must inform the WPTP organizers by email (michel.simard@cnrc-nrc.gc.ca, sharon.obrien@dcu.ie) specifying to which other conference or workshop they are submitting their work. If the paper is accepted and presented at WPTP, then it must be withdrawn from other conferences and workshops. At least one author must register for the WPTP4 Workshop. Those who will attend the MT Summit and WPTP4 must register for both events.
Demo submissions consist of a 1-page product description. They should not be anonymized. Please email your demo submissions directly to Michel Simard (michel.simard@cnrc-nrc.gc.ca) and Sharon O'Brien (sharon.obrien@dcu.ie) by 11:59 pm PDT (GMT - 7 hours), Friday July 31, 2015.
Sharon O'Brien – Adapt / Dublin City University
Michel Simard – National Research Council Canada
Joss Moorkens -- Dublin City University
Nora Aranberri -- University of the Basque Country
Diego Bartolome -- Tauyou
Michael Carl -- Copenhagen Business School
Michael Denkowski -- Carnegie Mellon University
Stephen Doherty -- The University of New South Wales
Mikel Forcada -- Universitat d'Alacant
Spence Green -- Lilt Inc
Roland Kuhn -- National Research Council of Canada
Isabel Lacruz -- Kent State University
Alon Lavie -- Carnegie Mellon University
Lieve Macken -- Ghent University
Elliott Macklovitch -- Independent MT Consultant
Daniel Marcu -- ISI/USC
Linda Mitchell -- Dublin City University, CNGL
John Moran -- CNGL ADAPT
Matteo Negri -- Fondazione Bruno Kessler
Maja Popović -- DFKI
Johann Roturier -- Symantec
Lane Schwartz -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Carlos S. C. Teixeira -- Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Spain) / KU Leuven (Belgium)
Marco Turchi -- Fondazione Bruno Kessler
Guillaume Wisniewski -- Univ. Paris Sud and LIMSI-CNRS