{"id":153,"date":"2017-05-27T14:30:22","date_gmt":"2017-05-27T14:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/achrafothman.net\/site\/?p=153"},"modified":"2021-10-18T03:55:55","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T03:55:55","slug":"the-3rd-workshop-on-multi-word-units-in-machine-translation-and-translation-technology-mumttt-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/achrafothman.net\/site\/the-3rd-workshop-on-multi-word-units-in-machine-translation-and-translation-technology-mumttt-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"The 3rd Workshop on Multi-word Units in Machine Translation and Translation Technology (MUMTTT 2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"

http:\/\/rgcl.wlv.ac.uk\/europhras2017\/mumttt-2017\/<\/a><\/h3>\n

In conjunction with EUROPHRAS\u00a02017\u00a0\u2013 International Conference \u201cComputational and Corpus-based Phraseology:\u00a0Recent advances and interdisciplinary approaches<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

Under the auspices of the Special Interest Group on the Lexicon of the Association for Computational Linguistics (SIGLEX<\/a>)<\/p>\n

*** Deadline Extended to 15 June 2017 ***<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Final Call for Papers<\/strong><\/p>\n

Following the success of the two previous editions of the workshop on\u00a0Multi-word Units in Machine Translation and Translation Technology<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 the 2013 edition at the MT Summit in Nice, France, and the 2015 edition at the European Society of Phraseology Conference in Malaga, Spain, we are announcing the third edition to be held in conjunction with the International Conference \u201cComputational and Corpus-based Phraseology: Recent advances and interdisciplinary approaches\u201d which is jointly organised by the European Association for Phraseology (EUROPHRAS), the University of Wolverhampton (Research Institute of Information and Language Processing) and the Association for Computational Linguistics \u2013 Bulgaria (London, 13-14 November\u00a02017<\/span><\/span>).<\/p>\n

The\u00a0MUMTTT\u00a0workshop will be held on the second day of the conference, 14 November\u00a02017<\/span><\/span>. It will provide a forum for researchers and practitioners in the fields of (Computational) Linguistics, (Computational) Phraseology, Translation Studies and Translation Technology to discuss recent advances in the area of multi-word unit processing and to coordinate research efforts across disciplines in order to improve the integration of multi-word units in machine translation and translation technology tools.<\/p>\n

Multi-word units are acknowledged as one of the major challenges in natural language processing (NLP). In spite of the relative progress achieved for particular types of units such as verb-particle constructions, the identification, interpretation and translation of multi-word units in general still represent open challenges, both from a theoretical and a practical point of view. The idiosyncratic morpho-syntactic, semantic and translational properties of multi-word units pose many obstacles even to human translators, mainly because of intrinsic ambiguities, structural and lexical asymmetries between languages, and, finally, cultural differences.<\/p>\n

In recent years, growing attention has been paid to integrating multi-word units (MWUs) in machine translation and translation technology tools, as it has been acknowledged that it is not possible to create large scale language solutions without properly handling MWUs of all types. As a matter of fact, researchers are now addressing the problems posed by MWU processing and translation using different formalisms and techniques, such as: automatic recognition of MWUs in a monolingual or bilingual setting; alignment and paraphrasing techniques; development and use of (handcrafted) monolingual and bilingual language resources; creation of annotated monolingual and parallel corpora, development of strategies for handling syntactically flexible units in language analysis and translation modules, development of evaluation projects.<\/p>\n

The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners working on MWU processing from various perspectives, in order to enable cross fertilisation and foster the creation of innovative solutions that can only arise from interdisciplinary collaborations. In particular, the workshop welcomes interactions between NLP researchers working on the computational treatment of multi-word units, experts in (computational) phraseology working on challenging topics of their discipline, as well as translation practitioners, to the benefit of applying their latest results to advance the state of the art in MWU processing.<\/p>\n

Topics of Interest<\/strong><\/p>\n

The\u00a0MUMTTT\u00a02017\u00a0workshop invites the submission of papers reporting on original and unpublished research on topics related to MWU processing in machine translation and translation technology, including:<\/p>\n