MT Marathon in the Americas 2023 Program
The schedule below is tentative and will be finalized soon by the organizing committee.
| Monday | June 5 |
|---|---|
| 9:30-10:00 | Welcome to MTMA'23 (Antonios Anastasopoulos, George Mason University) |
| 10:00-11:00 | Philipp Koehn , Johns Hopkins University. "Large Language Models and Machine Translation" |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee break |
| 11:30-12:30 | Project kickoff |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30-14:15 | Kalika Bali, Microsoft Research |
| 14:15- | Project proposals |
| Tuesday | June 6 |
|---|---|
| 9:00-10:00 | Project Work |
| 10:00-11:00 | Marine Carpuat, University of Maryland. "Understanding and Detecting Hallucinations in Neural Machine Translation via Model Introspection" |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee break |
| 11:30-12:30 | Kevin Duh, Johns Hopkins University. "Large Language Models (LLMs) for Machine Translation Adaptation " |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30-14:15 | William Lewis, University of Washington. "Language Technologies for Crisis Preparedness and Response (LT4CPR)" |
| 14:15- | Project proposals |
| Wednesday | June 7 |
|---|---|
| 9:00-11:30 | Project Work |
| 11:30-12:30 | Matt Post, Microsoft. "Why are we still translating sentences?" |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30-14:30 | Mid-Week Project Presentations |
| 14:30- | Project Work |
| Thursday | June 8 |
|---|---|
| 9:00-10:00 | Project Work |
| 10:00-11:00 | Nuno Guerreiro , Instituto Superior Técnico. "Towards Safeguarding Translation Models Against Hallucinations" |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee break |
| 11:30-12:30 | Project Work |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30- | Project Work |
| Friday | June 9 |
|---|---|
| 9:00-10:00 | Project Work |
| 10:00-11:00 | Ricardo Rei , Unbabel. "Robust, Interpretable and Efficient Machine Translation Evaluation" |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee break |
| 11:30-12:30 | Project Work |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch |
| 14:30-15:30 | Project Work |
| 14:30-15:30 | Final Project Presentations |
| 15:30-15:45 | Closing session |
