WMT (Workshop on Machine Translation) Conference
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A WMT (Workshop on Machine Translation) Conference is a machine translation conference that focuses on Machine Translation research.
- Context:
- It can (typically) be organized annually, aligning with larger Natural Language Processing conferences like EMNLP or ACL.
- It can influence Machine Translation Technologies, thanks to the dissemination and discussion of shared task results.
- It can range from being a WMT Workshop in its early editions to being a WMT Full-Conference, reflecting its growing significance in the machine translation community.
- It can host a variety of WMT Shared Tasks that challenge participants to develop and test machine translation systems under standardized conditions.
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- Example(s):
- Counter-Example(s):
- COLING (International Conference on Computational Linguistics). While related to natural language processing, COLING has a broader focus beyond machine translation specifically.
- LREC (Language Resources and Evaluation Conference). A conference focused on linguistic resources and evaluation, which are relevant to but distinct from the core machine translation research presented at WMT.
- See: NAACL, EMNLP, ACL.
References
2024
- https://machinetranslate.org/wmt
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- WMT is the main annual conference for machine translation research, bringing together academics, researchers, and industry representatives to share experiences and research results.
- The conference began in 2006 as a workshop at NAACL, and became a standalone conference in 2016 due to the rise of neural machine translation, though it is still primarily known as WMT.
- WMT includes various shared tasks, which are competitions on different aspects of machine translation, such as general translation, biomedical translation, multimodal translation, and more.
- Shared task organizers provide datasets and instructions, and teams submit their system outputs, which are ranked using human evaluation, with results announced at the main conference.
- The main shared task is the General machine translation task, formerly known as the News task, which traditionally involved translating news articles.
- WMT also features evaluation tasks, such as the Metrics task and Quality estimation task, as well as other tasks like Automatic post-editing.
- Published results and datasets from WMT shared tasks serve as standard benchmarks for machine translation research, and the conference has had consistent involvement from universities, research labs, and major tech companies.
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