It's now the last day of the IAMT conference in Copenhagen. Google was kind enough to send me, as I was a co-author of one of the papers presented here: Lexical Translation with Application to Image Search on the Web, which describes the early days of the panimages project. I also took the opportunity to visit with my brother Tsvi and sister-in-law Lei, and their new baby daughter Yvonne.
The conference has been fun. It's my first time at a conference, so I wasn't quite sure what to expect. The first day was a half-day tutorial about machine translation on the web. The topic was interesting, but the contents were a little 'soft'. I got to meet a bunch of interesting people, though, which was a plus. The second day was a full-day workshop, where much of the presentations were very technical and went over my head. A number of them were interesting, though, and it's nice to see what people are working on and what the industry is arguing about. There was a long 'discussion' at the end of the day between the SMT (Statistical Machine Translation) people, and the NLG (Natural Language Generation) people, who seem to be somewhat at odds about where the field should be going and what their counterparts should be doing.
The last three days of the conference have been quite interesting. There have been three tracks of talks, and all of them have been interesting. Most of those I attended haven't been too technical, but have covered a breadth of subjects that are being worked on currently. It's nice to be able to keep an eye on what current research is about even without being too deeply involved with the field.
It's literally been years since I posted, and I'm trying out posting on Blogger now - hopefully improving the ease of posting and increasing the frequency.
Until next time.
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