Statistical machine translation (SMT) researchers in Europe will be having a field day in May, with the 2nd Machine Translation Marathon in Berlin lasting ten whole days (May 10 to 20). The event is being organized by EuroMatrix, a public-funded research network project devoted to multiplying SMT development and evaluation for various pairs of European languages. At the end of the event, an invitation-only 2-day Translingual Europe conference is due to inform industry and commerce among other audiences about the "opportunities and challenges" for EU research in MT.
