TOPICS

We solicit contributions including but not limited to the following topics:

• Comparable-corpora-based MT systems (CCMTs)
• Architectures for CCMTs
• CCMTs for less-resourced languages
• CCMTs for less-resourced domains
• CCMTs dealing with morphologically rich languages
• CCMTs for spoken translation
• Applications of CCMTs
• CCMT evaluation
• Open source CCMT systems
• Hybrid systems combining SMT and CCMT
• Hybrid systems combining rule-based MT and CCMT
• Enhancing phrase-based SMT using comparable corpora
• Expanding phrase tables using comparable corpora
• Comparable-corpora-based processing tools/kits for MT
• Methods for mining comparable corpora from the Web
• Applying Harris’ distributional hypothesis to comparable corpora
• Induction of morphological, grammatical, and translation rules from comparable corpora
• Machine learning techniques using comparable corpora
• Parallel corpora vs. pairs of non-parallel monolingual corpora
• Extraction of parallel segments or paraphrases from comparable corpora
• Extraction of bilingual and multilingual translations of single words and multi-word expressions, proper names, and named entities from comparable corpora

IMPORTANT DATES

SUBMISSION INFORMATION

Manuscripts, submitted as PDF files, will be processed via the JNLE site at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/nle, according to the instructions in http://assets.cambridge.org/NLE/NLE_ifc.pdf.

Register as an author and select the manuscript type “Special Issue: Machine Translation Using Comparable Corpora”. Further details will appear in this space closer to the submission deadline.

The recommended format is LATEX, using the JNLE style files, a copy of which is here.

Please use the following e-mail address if you need to contact the guest editors: mailto:jnle.bucc(erase_at)limsi(erase_dot)fr