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{{Event
|Acronym=WMT 2018
|Title=3rd Conference on Machine Translation
|Series=WMT
|Type=Conference
|Field=Natural language processing
|Start date=2018/10/31
|End date=2018/11/01
|Submission deadline=2018/07/27
|Homepage=http://www.statmt.org/wmt18/
|City=Brussels
|Country=Belgium
|Paper deadline=2018/07/27
|Camera ready=2018/08/31
}}
[[EMNLP 2018]] - '''THIRD CONFERENCE ON MACHINE TRANSLATION (WMT18)''', October 31 — November 1, 2018,Brussels, Belgium 

This conference builds on a series of annual workshops and conferences on statistical machine translation, going back to 2006:
* the NAACL-2006 Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation,
* the ACL-2007 Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation,
* the ACL-2008 Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation,
* the EACL-2009 Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation,
* the ACL-2010 Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation
* the EMNLP-2011 Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation,
* the NAACL-2012 Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation,
* the ACL-2013 Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation,
* the ACL-2014 Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation,
* the EMNLP-2015 Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation,
* the First Conference on Machine Translation (at ACL-2016).
* the Second Conference on Machine Translation (at EMNLP-2017). 

==IMPORTANT DATES==
* Release of training data for shared tasks: January/February, 2018
* Evaluation periods for shared tasks:       May/June, 2018
* Paper submission deadline:                 July 27th, 2018
* Paper notification:                        August 18th, 2018
* Camera-ready version due:          	     August 31st, 2018
* Conference in Brussels	             October 31 - November 1, 2018

==OVERVIEW==
This year's conference will feature the following shared tasks:   
* a news translation task 
* a biomedical translation task , 
* an automatic post-editing task, 
* a metrics task (assess MT quality given reference translation). 
* a quality estimation task (assess MT quality without access to any reference), 
* a multimodal translation task 

==Topics==
In addition to the shared tasks, the conference will also feature scientific papers on topics related to MT. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
    
* MT models (neural, statistical etc. )
* analysis of neural models for MT
* using comparable corpora for MT
* selection and preparation of training data for MT
* incorporating linguistic information into MT
* decoding
* system combination
* error analysis
* manual and automatic methods for evaluating MT
* quality estimation for MT

==NEWS TRANSLATION TASK==

This shared task will examine translation between the following language pairs:   
* English-Chinese and Chinese-English
* English-Czech and Czech-English
* English-Estonian and Estonian-English
* English-Finnish and Finnish-English
* English-German and German-English
* English-Kazakh and Kazakh-English
* English-Russian and Russian-English
* English-Turkish and Turkish-English
Acronym	WMT 2018 +
Camera ready due	August 31, 2018 +
End date	November 1, 2018 +
Event in series	WMT +
Event type	Conference +
Has coordinates	50° 50' 48", 4° 21' 6"Latitude: 50.846558333333 Longitude: 4.3516972222222 +
Has location city	Brussels +
Has location country	Category:Belgium +
Homepage	http://www.statmt.org/wmt18/ +
IsA	Event +
Paper deadline	July 27, 2018 +
Start date	October 31, 2018 +
Submission deadline	July 27, 2018 +
Title	3rd Conference on Machine Translation +