MT Marathon in the Americas 2023
Machine Translation Marathon in the Americas
The Machine Translation Marathon in the Americas 2023 was held in Fairfax, Virginia, from 5 June to 9 June, 2022.
It was organised by George Mason University.
The event featured lectures covering the basics and tutorials, keynote talks and hacking projects to advance tools or research.
Registration was free, but the number of attendees was limited.
Schedule
Day 1
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Welcome to MTMA’23 Antonios Anastasopoulos, George Mason University |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Large Language Models and Machine Translation Philipp Koehn, Johns Hopkins University |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | ☕️ |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Project kickoff |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | 🍴 |
| 13:30 - 14:15 | Kalika Bali, Microsoft Research |
| 14:15 | Project proposals |
Day 2
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Project Work |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Understanding and Detecting Hallucinations in Neural Machine Translation via Model Introspection Marine Carpuat, University of Maryland |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | ☕️ |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Large Language Models (LLMs) for Machine Translation Adaptation Kevin Duh, Johns Hopkins University |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | 🍴 |
| 13:30 - 14:15 | Language Technologies for Crisis Preparedness and Response (LT4CPR) William Lewis, University of Washington |
| 14:15 | Project proposals |
Day 3
| 09:00 - 11:30 | Project Work |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Why are we still translating sentences? Matt Post, Microsoft |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | 🍴 |
| 13:30 - 14:30 | Mid-Week Project Presentations |
| 14:30 | Project Work |
Day 4
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Project Work |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Towards Safeguarding Translation Models Against Hallucinations Nuno Guerreiro, Instituto Superior Técnico |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | ☕️ |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Project Work |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | 🍴 |
| 13:30 | Project Work |
Day 5
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Project Work |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Robust, Interpretable and Efficient Machine Translation Evaluation Ricardo Rei, Unbabel |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | ☕️ |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Project Work |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | 🍴 |
| 14:30 - 15:30 | Project Work |
| 14:30 - 15:30 | Final Project Presentations |
| 15:30 - 15:45 | Closing session |
Important dates
| Registration opens | 25 May |
| Project proposals page listed | 25 May |
| Event | 5-9 June |