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for cross-posting]</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
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(ArEnMulti30K) Task</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">We invite you to take
part in one or both of the two following tasks organized as part of the <a href="http://lotus.kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp/WAT/" style="color:blue" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Workshop on Asian Translation (WAT)</span></a>. The aim
of the “<i><a href="https://lotus.kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp/WAT/WAT2021/index.html" style="color:blue" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">WAT 2021 Multi-Modal translation
task</span></a></i>” is to enable research on multilingual multi-modal NLP.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">The Workshop on Asian
Translation (WAT) is organizing the multi-modal </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:blue">Arabic-to-English
</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">and </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:blue">English-to-Arabic </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">translation tasks using the Multi30K dataset. Each task has two
versions: constrained and unconstrained, and you are invited to participate in
all of them. In the constrained versions, external resources such as additional
datasets and pre-trained models with external data, are not allowed to be used
except for preprocessing and visualization purposes.</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">The Multi30K dataset is an extension of the
Flicker30K dataset that provides 31,014 images along with five descriptions for
each image in English. One of the five English descriptions was professionally
translated by human experts to German, French and Czech. For this task, we have
extended the Multi30K by providing an additional translation in Arabic. The
target of this task is to focus on the translation between English and Arabic.
However, participating teams are allowed and encouraged to benefit from the
multi-modal and multi-lingual nature of the dataset, even in the constrained
versions.</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Please refer to the task
website.</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/arenmulti30k" style="color:blue" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/view/arenmulti30k</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">email: <a href="mailto:arenmulti30k@googlegroups.com" style="color:blue" target="_blank">arenmulti30k@googlegroups.com</a> </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Organizers:</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204)">Roweida Mohammed</span></u><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204)">Ali Fadel</span></u><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan</span></p></div>
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