FinMT 2017

Second Finnish Workshop on Machine Translation

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The goal of this workshop is to bring together people with interest in machine translation for morphologically-rich languages and Finnish in particular. Morphological complexity and word order freedom are difficult challenges in current MT models and we would like to accelerate the development of systems that can handle languages like Finnish in a more appropriate way especially as the target language. We hope that this event will create new ideas and fosters collaborations leading to substantial improvements in MT for such languages. The following topics are of special interest for the workshop:

  • Neural MT for morphologically-rich languages
  • Tools and resources for Finnish (and other morphologically-rich languages)
  • MT for low-resource languages
  • Evaluation of highly-inflecting languages
  • Long-distance dependencies even across sentence boundaries

Participation is free but requires registration.

Tentative Program

Acknowledgments

The event was funded by the strategic collaboration between the universities of Stockholm and Helsinki and by the Faculty of Arts in Helsinki. Thank you!

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