In this competition participants are asked to build a translation/writing assistance system that translates specifically marked L1 fragments in an L2 context to their proper L2 translation. This type of translation can be applied in writing assistance systems for language learners in which users write in a target language, but are allowed to occasionally back off to their native L1 when they are uncertain of the proper lexical or grammatical form in L2. The task is at the boundary of Cross-Lingual Word Sense Disambiguation and Machine Translation. It finds its application in the field of computer-assisted translation, particularly in the context of second language learning. Translating L1 fragments in an L2 context allows language learners when writing in a target language (L2) to fall back to their native language (L1) whenever they are uncertain of the right word or phrase.
