May 2016
LREC 2016 Workshop: “Translation evaluation – From fragmented tools and data sets to an integrated ecosystem”
This workshop will take an in-depth look at an area of ever-increasing importance: approaches, tools and data support for the evaluation of human translation (HT) and machine translation (MT), with a focus on MT. Two clear trends have emerged over the past several years. The first trend involves standardising evaluations in research through large shared tasks in which actual translations are compared to reference translations using automatic metrics and/or human ranking. The second trend focuses on achieving high quality translations…
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META-FORUM 2016
META-FORUM is a international conference on powerful language technologies for the multilingual information society, the data value chain and the information market place. CRACKER is supporting META-FORUM 2015-2017. Horizon 2020 and Connecting Europe Facility (CEF): an update from the European Commission Strategic Agenda for the Multilingual Digital Single Market: Update Multilingual Technologies for the Digital Single Market BDVA and Language Technologies: bridges and opportunities Dedicated research sessions on Machine Translation and other topics European Language Technology platforms and infrastructures, including…
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ACL 2016
For the first time, the annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) takes place in Germany. ACL 2016 will be held at the Humboldt University, in the heart of Berlin, August 7-12, 2016. As in previous years, the program of the conference includes poster sessions, tutorials, workshops, and demonstrations in addition to the main conference. ACL is the premier conference of the field of computational linguistics, covering a broad spectrum of diverse research areas that are concerned with…
Find out more »First Conference on Machine Translation (WMT16) at ACL 2016
This year's conference will feature ten shared tasks: a news translation task, an IT domain translation task (NEW), a biomedical translation task (NEW), an automatic post-editing task, a metrics task (assess MT quality given reference translation). a quality estimation task (assess MT quality without access to any reference), a tuning task (optimize a given MT system), a pronoun translation task, a bilingual document alignment task (NEW), a multimodal translation task (NEW) In addition to the shared tasks, the conference will…
Find out more »September 2016
SEMANTICS 2016
The annual SEMANTiCS conference is the meeting place for professionals who make semantic computing work, and understand its benefits and know its limitations. Every year, SEMANTiCS attracts information managers, IT-architects, software engineers, and researchers, from organisations ranging from NPOs, universities, public administrations to the largest companies in the world.
Find out more »October 2016
TAUS Annual Conference 2016
The TAUS Annual Conference is the event where industry insiders and newcomers meet to get the pulse of the translation industry and discuss strategies and opportunities for collaboration.
Find out more »Translating Europe Forum
The #TranslatingEurope Forum is a yearly event organised by the Directorate-General for Translation (DGT) of the European Commission. It brings together translation stakeholders in Europe to discuss topics of common interest such as skills, employability, professionalisation, quality, tools, and to promote cooperation between stakeholders. Its aim is to increase the visibility of the profession and to stimulate dialogue and projects of common interest. The #TranslatingEurope Forum target audience comprises all DGT stakeholders: from University students and teachers to freelance translators,…
Find out more »November 2016
LT-Accelerate 2016
LT-Accelerate is a conference designed to help businesses, researchers and public administrations discover value via language technology. A joint production of LT-Innovate -- the association of the language technology industry -- and U.S. consultancy Alta Plana Corporation, headed by industry analyst Seth Grimes, LT-Accelerate is about: Business insight in social, online, and enterprise data sources, discovered via... Big data analytics: Natural language processing, text & speech analytics, social intelligence, and semantic technologies, applied for... Essential business functions: Customer service and…
Find out more »November 2017
META-FORUM 2017
META-FORUM is a international conference on powerful language technologies for the multilingual information society, the data value chain and the information market place. CRACKER is supporting META-FORUM 2015-2017. Horizon 2020 and Connecting Europe Facility (CEF): an update from the European Commission Strategic Agenda for the Multilingual Digital Single Market: Final Version Towards the Human Language Project Multilingual Technologies for the Digital Single Market European Language Technology projects, platforms, infrastructures Poster sessions Invited keynotes META-FORUM 2017 is foreseen to take place…
Find out more »December 2018
ICT 2018 Networking Session: Where Multilingualism, Big Data and Artificial Intelligence meet: Language Technologies for the Next Generation Internet
Europe is a multilingual society. Powerful and ubiquitous Language Technologies (LT) are needed to enable multilingualism in all economic and societal areas of our continent including the Digital Single Market, public administrations, general IT/ICT applications and connected devices (intelligent assistants, household appliances, vehicles etc.). It is exactly this next generation of multilingual and cross-lingual LT where modern AI approaches (Deep Learning) and huge data sets (Big Data) meet with the opportunity of enabling multilingualism for the Next Generation Internet technologically.…
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