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WAGS, the English/Italian Word Alignment Gold Standard has been released. You can download it here

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• Read more about Release of the WAGS dataset

TMOP: A TOOL FOR UNSUPERVISED TRANSLATION MEMORY CLEANING
Masoud Jalili Sabet, Matteo Negri, Marco Turchi, José G. C. de Souza and Marcello Federico

TRANSCRATER: A TOOL FOR AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION QUALITY ESTIMATION
Shahab Jalalvand, Matteo Negri, Marco Turchi, José G. C. de Souza and Falavigna Daniele

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• Read more about Two demo papers accepted at ACL 2016

"Modern MT: A New Open-Source Machine Translation Platform for the Translation Industry"
U. Germann,  E. Barbu, L. Bentivogli, N. Bertoldi, N. Bogoychev, C. Buck, D. Caroselli, L. Carvalho, A. Cattelan, R. Cattoni, M. Cettolo, M. Federico, B. Haddow, D. Madl, L. Mastrostefano, P. Mathur, A. Ruopp, A. Samiotou, V. Sudharshan, M. Trombetti, J. van der Meer

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• Read more about Poster presentation at EAMT 2016

"An Unsupervised Method for Automatic Translation Memory Cleaning"
Masoud Jalili Sabet, Matteo Negri, Marco Turchi and Eduard Barbu

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• Read more about Short Paper accepted at ACL 2016

"First Shared Task on Automatic Translation Memory Cleaning: Preparation and Lessons Learned"
Eduard Barbu, Carla Parra Escartín, Luisa Bentivogli, Matteo Negri, Marco Turchi, Marcello Federico, Luca Mastrostefano, Constantin Orasan

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• Read more about Paper at LREC 2016 Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Translation Memories (NLP4TM)

"The IWSLT Evaluation Campaign: Challenges, Achievements, Future Directions"
Luisa Bentivogli, Marcello Federico, Sebastian Stüker, Mauro Cettolo, Jan Niehues

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• Read more about Paper at LREC 2016 Workshop on Translation Evaluation

"WAGS: A Beautiful English-Italian Benchmark Supporting Word Alignment Evaluation on Rare Words"    
Luisa Bentivogli, Mauro Cettolo, M. Amin Farajian, Marcello Federico.

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• Read more about Paper at LREC 2016

In the contest of Evalita 2016, we are co-organizing FactA (Event Factuality Annotation), the first evaluation exercise for factuality profiling of events in Italian.

Title: Identifying User Issues and Request Types in Forum Question Posts based on Discourse Analysis

Authors: Agnes Sandor, Nikolaos Lagos, Ngoc Phuoc An Vo, Caroline Brun.

"MEANTIME, the NewsReader Multilingual Event and Time Corpus", "Annotating opposition relations among Italian verb senses using crowdsourcing", "Classifying Temporal Relations with Simple Features", and "Corpora for Learning the Mutual Relationship between Semantic Relatedness and Textual Entailment"

A. Bisazza, M. Federico, "A Survey of Word Reordering in Statistical Machine Translation: Computational Models and Language Phenomena", Computational Linguistics, 2016. (Accepted for publication)

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• Read more about Paper accepted in Computational Linguistics

The paper

 L. Bentivogli, N. Bertoldi, M. Cettolo, M. Federico, M. Negri, M. Turchi,  "Evaluation of Adaptive Machine Translation for Human Post-Editing"

has been accepted for publication in the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing.

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• Read more about Paper accepted at IEEE/ACM TASLP

Vivi Nastase and Carlo Strapparava. knoWitiary: A Machine Readable Incarnation of Wiktionary. International Journal of Computational Linguistics and Applications. Vol. 6 No. 2 - December 2015

Sebastian Stüker presents on behalf of Marcello the overview paper:

Mauro Cettolo, Jan Niehues, Sebastian Stüker, Luisa Bentivogli and Marcello Federico

Report on the 12th IWSLT Evaluation Campaign, IWSLT 2015

12th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, Da Nang, Vietnam, 2015

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Presentation by Josè at the Second Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics of the work:

Hamed Zamani, Josè G. C. de Souza, Matteo Negri, Marco Turchi and Daniele Falavigna

"Reference-free and Confidence-independent Binary Quality Estimation for Automatic Speech Recognition"

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• Read more about Presentation at CLIC-IT

Marco Trombetti and Marcello Federico presented a tutorial on machine translation and the MateCat tool at the 37th Translating and the Computer Conference, in London. 

http://www.translatingandthecomputer.com

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• Read more about Tutorial at Translating and the Computer

- Cross-language projection of multilayer semantic annotation in the NewsReader Wikinews Italian Corpus (WItaC)
- FacTA: Evaluation of Event Factuality and Temporal Anchoring
- Annotating opposition among verb senses: a crowdsourcing experiment

Two papers were presented at the MT Summit XV (Miami, Florida, October 30 – November 3, 2015).

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Marcello Federico presented the MMT project at the TAUS Annual Conference, 12-13 October 2015, San Josè, California.

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• Read more about Presentation at the TAUS Conference

Title: Text mining for pharmacovigilance: Using machine learning for drug name recognition and drug–drug interaction extraction and classification

Authors: Asma Ben Abacha, Md Faisal Mahmub Chowdhury, Aikaterini Karanasiou, Yassine Mrabet, Alberto Lavelli, Pierre Zweigenbaum