Euromatrix
Annual international evaluation
Annual international evaluation
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Competitive annual international evaluation of machine translation meetings (“MT marathons”) were organized to bring together MT researchers. Participants of the marathons translated test sets with their systems. The test sets were then evaluated by manual as well as automatic metrics.

MT marathons were multi\-day happenings consisting of several events — summer school, lab lessons, research talks, workshops, open source conventions, research showcases.

### List of MT marathons

| Name | Date | Place |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Machine Translation Marathon 2007[First MT Marathon](http://www.euromatrix.net/press-releases/first-machine-translation-marathon/) | April 16–20, 2007 | Edinburgh, United Kingdom |
| Machine Translation Marathon 2008[Second MT Marathon](http://www.euromatrix.net/events/second-machine-translation-marathon/) | May 12–17, 2008 | Berlin, Germany |
| Machine Translation Marathon 2009[Third MT Marathon](http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/euromatrix/mtmarathon/) | January 26–30, 2009 | Prague, Czech Republic |


Can MT marathons be used for other purposes besides evaluation?