Report of the 1st Asian ESPRA Meeting

Overview of the 1st Workshop on Asian Translation

The Workshop on Asian Translation (WAT) is a new open evaluation campaign focusing on Asian languages. We would like to invite a broad range of participants and conduct various forms of machine translation experiments and evaluation. Collecting and sharing our knowledge will allow us to understand the essence of machine translation and the problems to be solved. We are working toward the practi...

Meeting report for the 1st skin microbiota workshop, boulder, CO October 15-16 2012

This report details the outcome of the 1st Skin Microbiota Workshop, Boulder, CO, held on October 15th-16th 2012. The workshop was arranged to bring Department of Defense personnel together with experts in microbial ecology, human skin physiology and anatomy, and computational techniques for interrogating the microbiome to define research frontiers at the intersection of these important areas. ...

KyotoEBMT System Description for the 1st Workshop on Asian Translation

This paper introduces the KyotoEBMT Example-Based Machine Translation framework. Our system uses a tree-to-tree approach, employing syntactic dependency analysis for both source and target languages in an attempt to preserve non-local structure. The effectiveness of our system is maximized with online example matching and a flexible decoder. Evaluation demonstrates BLEU scores competitive with ...

APMCHUD - Agenda for 1st Meeting of 6th Bureau at Nairobi

Meeting Report: 1st International Functional Metagenomics Workshop May 7–8, 2012, St. Jacobs, Ontario, Canada.

This report summarizes the events of the 1(st) International Functional Metagenomics Workshop. The workshop was held on May 7 and 8, 2012, in St. Jacobs, Ontario, Canada and was focused on building an international functional metagenomics community, exploring strategic research areas, and identifying opportunities for future collaboration and funding. The workshop was initiated by researchers a...