Social MT 2017
First workshop on Social Media and User Generated Content Machine Translation
Co-located with EAMT 2017, Prague, Czech Republic
Program @ EAMT (half-day workshop)
Weds afternoon of 31st May
Detailed program will be available shortly.
14:30-14:40
Opening and Welcome
Andy Way and Haithem Afli
14:40-15:20
Keynote Speech
Houda Bouamor
Translating user generated content: an overview and Arabic dialect translation as a case study.
15:20-15:40
Chao-Hong Liu, Declan Groves, Akira Hayakawa, Alberto Poncelas and Qun Liu. Understanding Meanings in Multilingual Customer Feedback.
15:40-16:00
Oral presentation 2
Fatma Mallek, Ngoc Tan Le and Fatiha Sadat. Improved Machine Translation for Arabic Tweets on Scarce-resource settings.
16:00-16:20
Coffee Break and Networking
16:20-16:40
Meghan Dowling, Teresa Lynn and Andy Way. A Crowd-sourcing Approach for Translations of Minority Language User-Generated Content
16:40-17:00
Oral presentation 4
Imane Guellil, Azouaou Faical, Mourad Abbas and Fatiha Sadat. Towards an automatic Machine Translation for Arabic using Arabizi Neural Machine Transliteration
17:00-17:45
Panel discussion on open and upcoming challenges in translating UGC
17:45-18:00
Closing