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Shared task – Translation Inference Across Dictionaries 2 – TIAD 2019
SECOND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
We are pleased to invite you to participate in the second shared task for
Translation Inference Across Dictionaries (TIAD 2019) and the workshop that
will be held in conjunction with the second conference on Language, Data and
Knowledge (LDK 2019) in Leipzig, Germany, on May 20, 2019.
TIAD was first held in conjunction with the first LDK conference in 2017, in
Galway, Ireland. This initiative is aimed at exploring methods and techniques
for automatically generating new bilingual (and multilingual) dictionaries from
existing ones in the context of a coherent experiment framework that enables
reliable validation of results and solid comparison of the processes used. It
also aims to enhance further research on the topic of inferring translations
across languages.
TASK DEFINITION
The objective of TIAD shared task is to explore and compare methods and
techniques that infer translations indirectly between language pairs, based on
other bilingual resources. Such techniques would help in auto-generating new
bilingual and multilingual dictionaries based on existing ones.
In particular, the participating systems will be asked to generate new
translations automatically among three languages, English, French, Portuguese,
based on known translations contained in the Apertium RDF graph
(http://linguistic.linkeddata.es/apertium/ ;). As the three languages (EN, FR,
PT) are not directly connected in this graph
(https://tinyurl.com/apertiumRDF-lang), no translations can be obtained
directly among them there. Based on the available RDF data, the participants
will apply their methodologies to derive translations, mediated by any other
language in the graph, between the pairs EN/FR, FR/PT and PT/EN.
Participants may make use also of other freely available sources of background
knowledge (e.g. lexical linked open data and parallel corpora) to improve
performance, as long as no direct translation among the target language pairs
is applied.
Evaluation of the results will be carried out by the organisers using manually
compiled corresponding pairs from the Global series of K Dictionaries
(https://lexicala.com/resources#dictionaries) and other resources.
PUBLICATION OF RESULTS
Participants will submit a system description paper including a description of
their system, the way data have been processed, the applied algorithms, the
obtained results, as well as the conclusions and ideas for future improvements.
The papers will be peer reviewed prior to publication to confirm all aspects
are well covered.
In addition, the workshop welcomes regular papers from those not participating
in the shared task but having worked on the topic of translation inference and
wanting to publish novel results or ideas, using different datasets and
experimental basis from the ones proposed in TIAD. The papers will be peer
reviewed on the basis of their scientific quality.
All the accepted papers will be presented at the workshop and published on
CEUR-WS (http://ceur-ws.org).
IMPORTANT DATES
13/11/2018 – First Call for participation
06/12/2018 – Technical description of the evaluation process and data provided
by organisers
01/03/2019 – Submission of results by participants / submission of regular
papers
20/03/2019 – Evaluation results communicated by organisers / notification of
regular papers
20/04/2019 – Submission of system description papers
20/05/2019 – Workshop day
SUBMISSION
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ldk2019
ORGANISERS
● Jorge Gracia, University of Zaragoza, Spain
● Besim Kabashi. Friedrich-Alexander University of
Erlangen-Nuremberg & Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich, Germany
● Ilan Kernerman, K Dictionaries, Israel
REVIEW COMMITTEE
● Julia Bosque-Gil, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
● Thierry Fontenelle, Translation Centre for the Bodies of the EU,
Luxembourg
● Jorge Gracia, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
● Besim Kabashi. Friedrich-Alexander University of
Erlangen-Nuremberg & Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich, Germany
● Ilan Kernerman, K Dictionaries, Israel
● Nikola Ljubešić, University of Zagreb, Croatia
● Shervin Malmasi, Harvard University, USA
● John McCrae, National University of Ireland, Galway
● Elena Montiel-Ponsoda, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
● Georg Rehm, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence
(DFKI), Berlin
● Arvi Tavast, Institute of the Estonian Language (EKI), Tallinn
● Liling Tan, Saarland University, Germany & Nanyang Technological
University, Singapore
● Marcos Zampieri, University of Köln, Germany
WEBSITES
TIAD 2019 http://tiad2019.unizar.es
LDK 2019 http://2019.ldk-conf.org/
TIAD 2017 https://tiad2017.wordpress.com/
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