Social MT 2017
First workshop on Social Media and User Generated Content Machine Translation
Co-located with EAMT 2017, Prague, Czech Republic
Co-located with EAMT 2017, Prague, Czech Republic
Weds afternoon of 31st May
Detailed program will be available shortly.
Opening and Welcome
Andy Way and Haithem Afli
Keynote Speech
Houda Bouamor
Translating user generated content: an overview and Arabic dialect translation as a case study.
Chao-Hong Liu, Declan Groves, Akira Hayakawa, Alberto Poncelas and Qun Liu. Understanding Meanings in Multilingual Customer Feedback.
Oral presentation 2
Fatma Mallek, Ngoc Tan Le and Fatiha Sadat. Improved Machine Translation for Arabic Tweets on Scarce-resource settings.
Coffee Break and Networking
Meghan Dowling, Teresa Lynn and Andy Way. A Crowd-sourcing Approach for Translations of Minority Language User-Generated Content
Oral presentation 4
Imane Guellil, Azouaou Faical, Mourad Abbas and Fatiha Sadat. Towards an automatic Machine Translation for Arabic using Arabizi Neural Machine Transliteration
Panel discussion on open and upcoming challenges in translating UGC
Closing