MT Half-Marathon

Join this three-day virtual gathering for Machine Translation researchers, developers, students and users.

November 22nd – 24th, 2021
Online

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Join us!

The MT Half-Marathon is a 3-day online event, jointly organized by University of Edinburgh (UEDIN), Unbabel, and TILDE, that will take place between November 22nd – 24th.

This online event is a gathering of Machine Translation researchers, developers, students and users, as well as an opportunity to learn more about Marian and develop new or improve its existing features. It comprises:

  • Tutorials covering the User-Focused Marian’s results.
  • MT Lectures and Keynote Talks with experienced invited speakers.
  • Hands-on sessions/workshops covering MT related topics.
  • Small hacking projects to advance tools or research in 3 days.

Registration is free and can be done below.

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Agenda

Session times are shown in Lisbon time (WET).

  • Day 1 (Nov 22)

    10:00-10:10

    Opening

    10:10-10:30

    Talk: User-Focused Marian
    Kenneth Heafield

    10:30-12:00

    Tutorial: Factored MT Models
    Pedro Coelho & Christine Maroti

    12:00-13:00

    Break

    13:00-14:30

    Tutorial: Efficient MT
    Nikolay Bogoychev

    14:30-15:00

    Hackaton Project Proposals

  • Day 2 (Nov 23)

    10:00

    Opening

    10:00-11:00

    Talk: COMET
    Ricardo Rei

    11:00-12:00

    Tutorial: MT Telescope
    Ricardo Rei & Catarina Farinha

    12:00-13:00

    Break

    13:00-

    Hackaton

  • Day 3 (Nov 24)

    10:00

    Opening

    10:00-11:00

    Multilinguality in NMT
    Mark Fishel

    11:00-12:00

    Tutorial: On the Fly Domain Adaptation
    Toms Bergmanis & Rihards Krišlauks

    12:00-13:00

    Break

    13:00-14:00

    Hackaton Project Presentations

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