EAMT conference

EAMT 2026: CALL FOR BIDS

  • August 9, 2024 (updated on September 22, 2024)

The European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT) invites expressions of interest to host the EAMT 2026 conference, to be held in Europe, the Middle East or Africa (EMEA) between May-June 2026. This will be the 26th EAMT conference. 

At this stage, we are seeking draft proposals from prospective bidders. These will be evaluated and promising bidders will be asked to provide additional information for the final selection. The EAMT president will act as general chair and will work together with local organisers to design and shape the conference, including the appointment of chairs.

Draft proposals (due September 13th, 2024) should include information on all of the following items:

1. Proposed dates: between May – June 2026 (3 days main conference + 1 day for workshops and tutorials)

2. Location: city and conference venue. Indicate whether the conference would be held at a university, hotel or convention centre. Bear in mind that EAMT is growing: Ghent (EAMT 2022) had around 120 registered participants, Tampere (EAMT 2023) and Sheffield (EAMT 2024) had around 190 registered participants. So please suggest a location that could host 200+ people for the main conference sessions, plus room for registration, a large poster or exhibit room, and at least 4 conference rooms for hosting parallel workshops and tutorials on the last day (about 100 people each).

3. Local arrangements team: local chair/co-chairs, committee (identifying a coordinator to be co-opted as EAMT executive committee member), volunteer labour (e.g. students), registration handling. The local arrangements team will be responsible for activities such as arranging meeting rooms, equipment, refreshments, accommodation, on-site registration, participant internet access, the welcome reception, the conference dinner, and working with the other chairs and the EAMT Board to develop the budget and registration materials. Indicate whether any national/regional computational linguistics or translation studies association would be on the board of the local organisation

4. Computing/wifi/audiovisual: whether there will be desktops/laptops in conference rooms and high-speed wireless Internet access, what the audiovisual facilities are, etc. There should be sufficient sound and microphones that can go around the room for Q&A.

5. Food catering including breaks (two coffee breaks and one lunch break for all days of the conference), reception and conference dinner

6. Social events, including infrastructure for banquet/other social events and welcome reception

7. Potential for sponsorships: local organisers partner with the EAMT EC to engage sponsors and align track chairs and keynotes. Bids should include strategies for outreach, anticipated sponsor tiers, and potential benefits for sponsors.

8. Co-location with other meetings and events: demonstrate that you have researched the dates to avoid clashes with other events and considered opportunities for co-location with other meetings

9. Cost estimates: while a finalised budget is not expected at this stage, it is essential that proposers provide well-researched estimates with some level of detail related to all of the above items. These estimates should be documented in the expenses spreadsheet (template provided by the EAMT upon request).

Proposals will be evaluated with respect to a number of criteria (unordered):

● Adequacy of conference and exhibit facilities for the anticipated number of registrants

● Adequacy of accommodations and food services (in a range of price categories) and proximity to the conference facilities

● Adequacy of expense projections and expected surplus

● Appropriateness of proposed dates

● Geographical and national balance with regard to previous EACL and ACL conferences, and other major natural-language processing and translation studies conferences held in EMEA

● Co-location with national/regional conferences

● Experience of the local arrangements team

● Local machine translation and translation studies community support

● Local government and industry support

● Appropriateness of expected registration fees

● Accessibility of proposed site via public transportation

● Alignment with the EAMT ethics statement and policies: https://eamt.org/ethics/

Please send your expressions of interest electronically to the EAMT president:

Helena Moniz <<helena.moniz “at” campus.ul.pt>>

The EAMT board encourages groups who intend to submit a proposal to ask questions about how to prepare the proposal.

Important Dates:

  • September 13th, 2024 > October 14th, 2024: Bids submission deadline
  • September 20th, 2024 > October 21st, 2024: Shortlist and feedback to bidders
  • September 27th, 2024 > October 28th, 2024: Final bids due
  • October 4th, 2024 > November 4th, 2024: Final bid chosen

EAMT best thesis award

2023 Anthony C Clarke Award for the EAMT Best Thesis: awardee announcement

  • April 17, 2024 (updated on July 24, 2024)

Nine PhD theses defended in 2023 were received as candidates for the 2022 edition of the EAMT Best Thesis Award, and all nine were eligible. 20 reviewers were recruited to examine and score the theses, considering how challenging the problem tackled in each thesis was, how relevant the results were for machine translation as a field, and what the strength of its impact in terms of scientific publications was. Two EAMT Executive Committee members also analysed all theses. It became very clear that 2023 was another very good year for PhD theses in machine translation. 

All theses had merit, all candidates had strong CVs and, therefore, it was very difficult to select a winner.

A panel of two EAMT Executive Committee members (Barry Haddow and Helena Moniz) was assembled to process the reviews and select a winner that was later ratified by the EAMT executive committee.

We are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2023 edition of the EAMT Best Thesis Award is Marco Gaido’s’ thesis “Direct Speech Translation Toward High-Quality, Inclusive, and Augmented Systems” (FBK, Italy), supervised by Dr Marco Turchi and Dr.  Matteo Negri.

In addition, the committee judged  that the following theses, were “highly commended”:

  • Jannis Vamvas: “Model-based Evaluation of Multilinguality” (University of Zurich, Switzerland), supervised by Rico Sennrich and Lena A. Jäger
  • Javier Iranzo-Sánchez: “Streaming Neural Speech Translation” ( UPV, Spain), supervised by Jorge Civera and Alfons Juan 

The awardee will receive a prize of €500, together with a suitably-inscribed certificate. In addition, Dr. Gaido will present a summary of their thesis at the 25th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT 2024: https://eamt2024.sheffield.ac.uk/) which will take place from June 24th to 27th in Sheffield, UK.  In order to facilitate this, the EAMT will waive the winner’s registration costs, and will make available a travel bursary of €200.

Barry Haddow, chair, EAMT BTA award 2023

Helena Moniz, EAMT president

Program committee 

Daniel Beck,   Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

Bram Vanroy,   KU Leuven

Philipp Koehn,  Johns Hopkins University

Danielle Saunders,  DeepL

Alexandra Birch,  University of Edinburgh

Felix Stahlberg,  Google

Bill Byrne,   Amazon

Sheila Castilho,  Dublin City University

John E. Ortega,     Northeastern University

Anna Currey,  Amazon

Rachel Bawden,  Inria

Xingyi Song,  University of Sheffield

Miquel Esplà-Gomis,  Universidad de Alicante

Marcello Federico,    Amazon

Antonio Toral, University of Groningen

Diptesh Kanojia,     University of Surrey

José G. C. de Souza,  Unbabel

Mikel L. Forcada,     Universidad de Alicante

Liane Guillou,     University of Edinburgh

Vera Cabarrão,  Unbabel

EAMT conference

EAMT 2024: Bursaries for Translators

  • March 28, 2024 (updated on March 28, 2024)

Call for Participation 

The European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT) is an organisation that serves the growing community of people interested in MT and translation tools, including translators, users, developers, and researchers of this increasingly viable technology.

As part of its commitment to promote research, development and awareness about translation technologies, the EAMT opens a call for a small number of bursaries to support translators and Translation Studies’ students, in attending the 25th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT 2024) conference will be held in Sheffield, United Kingdom, from June 24th to June 27th.

Purpose of the Call

This call is dedicated to support translators and Translation Studies’ students, working or studying in European, Middle-Eastern or African countries, that do not have fundings to attend the conference. 

The EAMT particularly encourages applications from early-career translators.

All applications will be screened by EAMT executive committee members.

Application information

Eligibility requirements

In order to qualify for this call, the individual must be a translator or enrolled in a Master or PhD course in Translation Studies. The support is only available to individuals working or studying in European, Middle-Eastern or African countries. Freelance translators and students will have priority. We will also give priority to people with accepted papers in the main conference.

Selection criteria

  • The selection will be made based on the information submitted to the provided Google Forms (link below).
  • One of the fields in the form is a “motivation letter”, where you should describe your motivation for attending the EAMT 2024 conference and explain why you do not have other funds to sponsor your attendance.
  • You should also submit a CV, highlighting your years of experience in the translation area and your experience working with MT.
  • For students: you should also submit an official proof of student status, signed by your University.

Bursaries

EAMT anticipates funding several applications. Selected participants will be announced on the 26th April 2024 and will receive complimentary membership in the EAMT for 2024 and 2025, free registration at the EAMT 2024 conference and paid accommodation in Sheffield.

Contact for enquiries

Sara Szoc

EAMT member

e-mail: saraszoc@gmail.com

Applications

Candidates should submit their applications via a Google Form: https://forms.gle/7JUDDhC7TDNXUEaq8

Important Dates

  • Circulation of the Call: March 28th, 2024
  • Submission deadline for applications: April 19th, 2024, 23:59 CEST
  • Notification: April 26th, 2024

Additional provisions

  • Only complete applications will be reviewed.
  • All information submitted with applications will be regarded as confidential and will only be used in the context of this call.
  • You may be asked to share the accommodation room with other awardees. However, we will commit to respect any requirements / concerns that you inform us (e.g. religion, gender, etc).
EAMT conference

EAMT 2024: Support for participants from  low-income countries and war zones

  • March 28, 2024 (updated on March 28, 2024)

Call for Participation 

The European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT) is an organisation that serves the growing community of people interested in MT and translation tools, including translators, users, developers, and researchers of this increasingly viable technology.

As part of its commitment to promote research, development and awareness about translation technologies, the EAMT opens a call for a small number of bursaries to support EAMT 2024 attendees from areas affected by war and low-income countries. The 25th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT 2024) conference will be held in Sheffield, United Kingdom, from June 24th to June 27th.

Purpose of the Call

This call is dedicated to support EAMT 2024 attendees that do not have fundings to attend the conference, from areas affected by war or low-income countries in Europe, Middle East or Africa. 

The EAMT particularly encourages applications from early career researchers.

All applications will be screened by EAMT executive committee members.

Application information

Eligibility requirements

In order to qualify for this call, the individual must be a student or an employee of an institution located in areas affected by war or in low-income countries in Europe, Middle East or Africa, that would not be able to attend the conference without this support. Students and early-career researchers/academics will have priority. We will also give priority to people with accepted papers in the main conference.

Selection criteria

  • The selection will be made based on the information submitted to the provided Google Forms (link below).
  • One of the fields in the form is a “motivation letter”, where you should describe your motivation for attending the EAMT 2024 conference and explain why you do not have other funds to sponsor your attendance.
  • You should also submit a CV, highlighting your years of experience in the MT area.

Bursaries

EAMT anticipates funding several applications. Selected participants will be announced on the 26th April 2024 and will receive complimentary membership in the EAMT for 2024 and 2025, free registration at the EAMT 2024 conference and paid accommodation in Sheffield.

Contact for enquiries

Sara Szoc

EAMT member

e-mail: saraszoc@gmail.com

Applications

Candidates should submit their applications via a Google Form: https://forms.gle/jS314WGUszZ2fMUT9

Important Dates

  • Circulation of the Call: March 28th, 2024
  • Submission deadline for applications: April 19th, 2024, 23:59 CEST
  • Notification: April 26th, 2024

Additional provisions

  • Only complete applications will be reviewed.
  • All information submitted with applications will be regarded as confidential and will only be used in the context of this call.
  • You may be asked to share the accommodation room with other awardees. However, we will commit to respect any requirements / concerns that you inform us (e.g. religion, gender, etc).

No obligation to award the bursaries

The EAMT shall be under no obligation to fund the applications pursuant to this call for participation. EAMT shall not be liable for any compensation with respect to candidates whose applications have not been approved. Nor shall it be liable in the event of it deciding not to award the bursaries.

EAMT best thesis award

The Anthony C. Clarke Award for the 2023 EAMT Best Thesis

  • December 3, 2023 (updated on July 24, 2024)

The European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT, http://www.eamt.org) is an organization that serves the growing community of people interested in MT and translation tools, including translators, users, developers, and researchers of this increasingly viable technology.

The EAMT invites entries for its twelfth EAMT Best Thesis Award for a PhD or equivalent thesis on a topic related to machine translation. 

Previous year winners can be found at https://eamt.org/best-thesis-award/. 

Eligibility

Researchers who

  • have completed a PhD (or equivalent) thesis on a relevant topic in a European, African or Middle Eastern institution within calendar year 2023,
  • have not previously won another international award for that thesis, and,
  • are members of the EAMT at the time of submission, 

are invited to submit their theses to the EAMT for consideration. 

Panel

The submissions will be judged by a panel of experts who will be specifically appointed, based on the EAMT 2024 program committee, and which will be ratified by the Executive Board of the EAMT.

Selection criteria

Each thesis will be judged according to how challenging the problem was, to how relevant the results are for machine translation as a field, and to the strength of their impact in terms of scientific publications.

Scope

The scope of the thesis does not need to be confined to a technical area, and applications are also invited from students who carried out their research into commercial and management aspects of machine translation.

Possible areas of research include:

  • development of machine translation or advanced computer-assisted translation: methods, software or resources
  • machine translation for less-resourced languages
  • the use of these systems in professional environments (freelance translators, translation agencies, localisation, etc.)
  • the increasing impact of machine translation on non-professional Internet users and its impact in communications, social networking, etc.
  • spoken language translation
  • the integration of machine translation and translation memory systems
  • the integration of machine translation software in larger IT applications
  • the evaluation of machine translation systems in real tasks such as those above
  • the cross-fertilisation between machine translation and other language technologies

Prize

The winner will be announced on the 8th of March 2024 and will receive a prize of €500, together with an inscribed certificate. The recipient of the award will be required to briefly present their research at EAMT 2024 to be held from 24th June to 27th June 2024 in Sheffield, UK. In order to facilitate this, the EAMT will waive the winner’s registration costs, and will make available a travel bursary of €200 to enable the recipient of the award to attend the said conference. The prize includes complimentary membership in the EAMT for 2025.

Submission

Candidates will submit, using OpenReview (https://openreview.net/group?id=EAMT.org/2024/Thesis_Award) a single PDF file containing:

  • a 2-page summary of your thesis in English, containing:
    • your full contact details,
    • the name and contact details of your supervisor(s),
    • the main aspects of your work, namely goal/objectives, methodology and results;
  • a copy of your CV in English (at most one page, plus a complete list of publications directly related to the thesis)
  • an electronic copy of your thesis
  • optionally, an appendix with any other relevant information on the thesis

By submitting their work, authors

  • agree that, in case they are granted the award, any subsequently published version of the thesis should carry the citation “The Anthony C. Clarke Award for the 2023 EAMT Best Thesis” and
  • acknowledge the right of the EAMT to publicize the granting of the award.

For this year’s Best Thesis Award we are requiring candidates to be an individual EAMT member at the time of submission. For EAMT memberships, please visit: https://eamt.org/101-2/.

Closing date

  • Submission deadline: February 8, 2024, 23:59 CEST.
  • Award notification: March 8, 2024.
EAMT best thesis award

2022 Anthony C Clarke Award for the EAMT Best Thesis: awardee announcement

  • April 20, 2023 (updated on April 17, 2024)

Nine PhD theses defended in 2022 were received as candidates for the 2022 edition of the EAMT Best Thesis Award, and all nine were eligible. 28 reviewers and six EAMT Executive Committee members were recruited to examine and score the theses, considering how challenging the problem tackled in each thesis was, how relevant the results were for machine translation as a field, and what the strength of its impact in terms of scientific publications was. Two EAMT Executive Committee members also analysed all theses. It became very clear that 2022 was another very good year for PhD theses in machine translation. 

All theses had merit, all candidates had strong CVs and, therefore, it was very difficult to select a winner.

A panel of two EAMT Executive Committee members (Carolina Scarton and Helena Moniz) was assembled to process the reviews and select a winner that was later ratified by the EAMT executive committee.

We are pleased to announce that the awardee of the 2022 edition of the EAMT Best Thesis is Biao Zhang’s thesis “Towards Efficient Universal Neural Machine Translation” (University of Edinburgh, UK), supervised by Dr Rico Sennrich and Dr Ivan Titov.

The awardee will receive a prize of €500, together with a suitably-inscribed certificate. In addition, Dr. Zhang will present a summary of their thesis at the 24th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT 2023: https://events.tuni.fi/eamt23/) which will take place from June 12th to 15th in Tampere, Finland. In order to facilitate this, the EAMT will waive the winner’s registration costs, and will make available a travel bursary of €200.

Helena Moniz, EAMT President

Carolina Scarton, EAMT Secretary

Program committee 

Rachel Bawden, Inria

Daniel Beck, The University of Melbourne

William Byrne, University of Cambridge

José G. C. de Souza, Unbabel

Vera Cabarrão, Unbabel / INESC-ID

Sheila Castilho, Dublin City University

Anna Currey, Amazon Web Services

Mattia Antonino Di Gangi, AppTek

Maha Elbayad, LIG/ Inria

Miquel Esplà-Gomis, Universitat d’Alacant

Marcello Federico, Amazon AI

Mikel Forcada, DLSI – Universitat d’Alacant

Barry Haddow, The University of Edinburgh

Diptesh Kanojia, IIT Bombay

Philipp Koehn, Johns Hopkins University

Helena Moniz, INESC/FLUL

Mary Nurminen, Tampere University

Constantin Orasan, University of Surrey

John E. Ortega, Northeastern University

Santanu Pal, Wipro Limited

Pavel Pecina, Charles University

Maja Popovic, ADAPT Centre @ DCU

Celia Rico, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Víctor M. Sánchez-Cartagena, Universitat d’Alacant

Marina Sánchez-Torrón, Unbabel

Danielle Saunders, University of Cambridge

Dimitar Shterionov, Tilburg University

Felix Stahlberg, Google Research

Arda Tezcan, Ghent University

Antonio Toral, University of Groningen

Ualsher Tukeyev, al-Farabi Kazakh National University

Bram Vanroy, KU Leuven; Ghent University

Longyue Wang, Tencent AI Lab

EAMT conference

EAMT 2023: Bursaries for Translators – Call for Participation 

  • April 3, 2023 (updated on July 24, 2024)

Call for Participation 

The European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT) is an organisation that serves the growing community of people interested in MT and translation tools, including translators, users, developers, and researchers of this increasingly viable technology.

As part of its commitment to promote research, development and awareness about translation technologies, the EAMT opens a call for a small number of bursaries to support translators and Translation Studies’ students, in attending the 24th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT 2023) conference will be held in Tampere, Finland, from June 12th to June 15th.

Purpose of the Call

This call is dedicated to support translators and Translation Studies’ students, working or studying in European, Middle-Eastern or African countries, that do not have fundings to attend the conference. 

The EAMT particularly encourages applications from early-career translators.

All applications will be screened by EAMT executive committee members.

Application information

Eligibility requirements

In order to qualify for this call, the individual must be a translator or enrolled in a Master or PhD course in Translation Studies. The support is only available to individuals working or studying in European, Middle-Eastern or African countries. Freelance translators and students will have priority. We will also give priority to people with accepted papers in the main conference.

Selection criteria

  • The selection will be made based on the information submitted to the provided Google Forms (link below).
  • One of the fields in the form is a “motivation letter”, where you should describe your motivation for attending the EAMT 2023 conference and explain why you do not have other funds to sponsor your attendance.
  • You should also submit a CV, highlighting your years of experience in the translation area and your experience working with MT.
  • For students: you should also submit an official proof of student status, signed by your University.

Bursaries

EAMT anticipates funding several applications. Selected participants will be announced on the 21st April 2023 and will receive complimentary membership in the EAMT for 2023 and 2024, free registration at the EAMT 2023 conference and paid accommodation in Tampere.

Contact for enquiries

Carolina Scarton

EAMT Secretary

e-mail: c.scarton@sheffield.ac.uk

Applications

Candidates should submit their applications via a Google Form: https://forms.gle/TzXQaRLypJD1t7qB7

Important Dates

  • Circulation of the Call: April 3rd, 2023
  • Submission deadline for applications: April 14th, 2023, 23:59 CEST
  • Notification: April 21st, 2023

Additional provisions

  • Only complete applications will be reviewed.
  • All information submitted with applications will be regarded as confidential and will only be used in the context of this call.
  • You may be asked to share the accommodation room with other awardees. However, we will commit to respect any requirements / concerns that you inform us (e.g. religion, gender, etc).

No obligation to award the bursaries

The EAMT shall be under no obligation to fund the applications pursuant to this call for participation. EAMT shall not be liable for any compensation with respect to candidates whose applications have not been approved. Nor shall it be liable in the event of it deciding not to award the bursaries.

EAMT conference

EAMT 2023: Support for participants from low-income countries and war zones

  • April 3, 2023 (updated on July 24, 2024)

Call for Participation 

The European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT) is an organisation that serves the growing community of people interested in MT and translation tools, including translators, users, developers, and researchers of this increasingly viable technology.

As part of its commitment to promote research, development and awareness about translation technologies, the EAMT opens a call for a small number of bursaries to support EAMT 2023 attendees from areas affected by war and low-income countries. The 24th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT 2023) conference will be held in Tampere, Finland, from June 12th to June 15th.

Purpose of the Call

This call is dedicated to support EAMT 2023 attendees that do not have fundings to attend the conference, from areas affected by war or low-income countries in Europe, Middle East or Africa. 

The EAMT particularly encourages applications from early career researchers.

All applications will be screened by EAMT executive committee members.

Application information

Eligibility requirements

In order to qualify for this call, the individual must be a student or an employee of an institution located in areas affected by war or in low-income countries in Europe, Middle East or Africa, that would not be able to attend the conference without this support. Students and early-career researchers/academics will have priority. We will also give priority to people with accepted papers in the main conference.

Selection criteria

  • The selection will be made based on the information submitted to the provided Google Forms (link below).
  • One of the fields in the form is a “motivation letter”, where you should describe your motivation for attending the EAMT 2023 conference and explain why you do not have other funds to sponsor your attendance.
  • You should also submit a CV, highlighting your years of experience in the MT area.

Bursaries

EAMT anticipates funding several applications. Selected participants will be announced on the 21st April 2023 and will receive complimentary membership in the EAMT for 2023 and 2024, free registration at the EAMT 2023 conference and paid accommodation in Tampere.

Contact for enquiries

Carolina Scarton

EAMT Secretary

e-mail: c.scarton@sheffield.ac.uk

Applications

Candidates should submit their applications via a Google Form: https://forms.gle/HQNF5jwEDT1bG1NK6

Important Dates

  • Circulation of the Call: April 3rd, 2023
  • Submission deadline for applications: April 14th, 2023, 23:59 CEST
  • Notification: April 21st, 2023

Additional provisions

  • Only complete applications will be reviewed.
  • All information submitted with applications will be regarded as confidential and will only be used in the context of this call.
  • You may be asked to share the accommodation room with other awardees. However, we will commit to respect any requirements / concerns that you inform us (e.g. religion, gender, etc).

No obligation to award the bursaries

The EAMT shall be under no obligation to fund the applications pursuant to this call for participation. EAMT shall not be liable for any compensation with respect to candidates whose applications have not been approved. Nor shall it be liable in the event of it deciding not to award the bursaries.

EAMT best thesis award

The Anthony C. Clarke Award for the 2022 EAMT Best Thesis

  • January 9, 2023 (updated on April 20, 2023)

The European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT, http://www.eamt.org) is an organization that serves the growing community of people interested in MT and translation tools, including translators, users, developers, and researchers of this increasingly viable technology.

The EAMT invites entries for its eleventh EAMT Best Thesis Award for a PhD or equivalent thesis on a topic related to machine translation. 

Previous year winners can be found at https://eamt.org/best-thesis-award/. 

Eligibility

Researchers who

  • have completed a PhD (or equivalent) thesis on a relevant topic in a European, African or Middle Eastern (1) institution within calendar year 2022,
  • have not previously won another international award for that thesis, and,
  • are members of the EAMT at the time of submission, 

are invited to submit their theses to the EAMT for consideration. 

(1)  Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen.

Panel

The submissions will be judged by a panel of experts who will be specifically appointed, based on the EAMT 2023 program committee, and which will be ratified by the Executive Board of the EAMT.

Selection criteria

Each thesis will be judged according to how challenging the problem was, to how relevant the results are for machine translation as a field, and to the strength of their impact in terms of scientific publications.

Scope

The scope of the thesis does not need to be confined to a technical area, and applications are also invited from students who carried out their research into commercial and management aspects of machine translation.

Possible areas of research include:

  • development of machine translation or advanced computer-assisted translation: methods, software or resources
  • machine translation for less-resourced languages
  • the use of these systems in professional environments (freelance translators, translation agencies, localisation, etc.)
  • the increasing impact of machine translation on non-professional Internet users and its impact in communications, social networking, etc.
  • spoken language translation
  • the integration of machine translation and translation memory systems
  • the integration of machine translation software in larger IT applications
  • the evaluation of machine translation systems in real tasks such as those above
  • the cross-fertilisation between machine translation and other language technologies

Prize

The winner will be announced on the 31st of March 2023 and will receive a prize of €500, together with an inscribed certificate. The recipient of the award will be required to briefly present their research at EAMT 2023 to be held from 12th June to 15th June 2022 in Tampere, Finland. In order to facilitate this, the EAMT will waive the winner’s registration costs, and will make available a travel bursary of €200 to enable the recipient of the award to attend the said conference. The prize includes complimentary membership in the EAMT for 2024.

Submission

Candidates will submit using EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eamt2023 (Submission type: Thesis Award), a single PDF file containing:

  • a 2-page summary of your thesis in English, containing:
    • your full contact details,
  • the name and contact details of your supervisor(s),
  • a copy of your CV in English (at most one page, plus a complete list of publications directly related to the thesis)
  • an electronic copy of your thesis
  • optionally, an appendix with any other relevant information on the thesis

By submitting their work, authors

  • agree that, in case they are granted the award, any subsequently published version of the thesis should carry the citation “The Anthony C. Clarke Award for the 2022 EAMT Best Thesis” and
  • acknowledge the right of the EAMT to publicize the granting of the award.

For this year’s Best Thesis Award we are requiring candidates to be an individual EAMT member at the time of submission. For EAMT memberships, please visit: http://www.eamt.org/membership.php.

Closing date

  • Submission deadline: March 3 March 10, 2023, 23:59 CEST.
  • Award notification: March 31 April 6, 2023.
EAMT best thesis award

2021 Anthony C Clarke Award for the EAMT Best Thesis: awardee announcement

  • May 3, 2022 (updated on January 9, 2023)

Six PhD theses defended in 2021 were received as candidates for the 2021 edition of the Anthony C Clarke Award for the EAMT Best Thesis, and all six were eligible. 12 reviewers and five EAMT Executive Committee members were recruited to examine and score the theses, considering how challenging the problem tackled in each thesis was, how relevant the results were for machine translation as a field, and what the strength of its impact in terms of scientific publications was. Two EAMT Executive Committee members (Helena Moniz – EAMT President – and Carolina Scarton – EAMT Secretary) formed a panel to analyse all theses and discuss all reviews.

The year of 2021 was again a very good year for PhD theses in machine translation. The scores of the best theses were very close, which made it very hard to select a winner. After discussing all the theses and their reviews, the panel proposed a winner that was approved by the EAMT executive committee. 

We are pleased to announce that the awardee of the 2021 edition of the EAMT Best Thesis is Danielle Saunders’ thesis “Domain Adaptation for Neural Machine Translation” (University of Cambridge, UK – now at RWS Language Weaver), supervised by Professor Bill Byrne.

The awardee will receive a prize of €500, together with a suitably-inscribed certificate. In addition, Dr. Saunders will present a summary of their thesis at the 23rd Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT 2022: https://eamt2022.com) which will take place from June 1st to 3rd in Ghent, Belgium. In order to facilitate this, the EAMT will waive the winner’s registration costs, and will make available a travel bursary of €200.

Helena Moniz, EAMT President
Carolina Scarton, EAMT Secretary

Program committee

José G. C. de Souza, Unbabel
Vera Cabarrão, Unbabel / INESC-ID
Sheila Castilho, DCU
Mattia Antonino Di Gangi, AppTek
Mirella De Sisto, Tilburg University
Miquel Esplà-Gomis, Universitat d’Alacant
Federico Gaspari, DCU
Barry Haddow, University of Edinburgh
Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski, Saarland University
Maja Popovic, DCU
Lieve Macken, Ghent University
André Martins, Unbabel
Celia Rico, Spain
Víctor M. Sánchez-Cartagena, Universitat d’Alacant
Marina Sánchez-Torrón, Unbabel
Arda Tezcan, Ghent University
Marco Turchi, Fondazione Bruno Kessler