Machine Translation and Morphologically-rich Languages
Research Workshop of the Israel Science Foundation
University of Haifa, Israel, 23-27 January, 2011
http://cl.haifa.ac.il/MT/

General information
Machine translation remains the holy grail of computational
linguistics. While this field of research has had tremendous progress
in the last decade, especially with the introduction of statistical
methods, translation between morphologically-rich languages remains a
highly challenging task. This Workshop addresses machine translation
(and related multilingual applications) in the context of
morphologically-rich languages. Relevant topics include, but are not
limited to, translation to and from such languages; transliteration
and translation of named entities; morphological pre-processing and
post-processing; language modeling of morphologically-rich languages;
and multilingual language resources.

The format of the Workshop is deliberately informal: it will include
oral presentations, both invited and contributed, but will leave ample
time for informal discussions, demonstrations and brainstorming. The
Workshop provides an opportunity to present the current state-of-the-
art, as well as future needs and directions. Complete works as well as
work in progress are equally welcome for presentation.

To encourage interaction and collaboration, an extensive social
program is planned, including a welcome reception, a banquet and a one-
day sightseeing tour.

Call for Papers

The Workshop will consist of invited and contributed presentations. We
invite 2-page abstracts, in PDF format only, describing recent results
or work in progress in topics related to the main theme of the
Workshop. Accepted abstracts will be presented either as oral
presentations or as posters, as determined by the Program Committee.
No Proceedings will be published.
Abstratcs should be submitted on-line at http://mt.cs.haifa.ac.il/
mtml/. The deadline for submission is October 20, 2010.

Important Dates

Abstract submission deadline: October 20, 2010
Acceptance notification: October 31, 2010
Final version of abstract due: December 31, 2010
Registration deadline: December 31, 2010
Workshop: January 23-27, 2011

Program Committee

Alon Lavie, Carnegie Mellon University
Gennadi Lembersky, University of Haifa
Shuly Wintner, University of Haifa

Acknowledgments
The Workshop is funded by the Israel Science Foundation, and is
generously supported by The Caesarea Edmond Benjamin de Rothschild
Foundation Institute for Interdisciplinary Applications of Computer
Science at the University of Haifa.