Upcoming Events
- Our own:
The 12th Machine Translation Summit will be held in Ottawa, Ontario August 26-30, 2009
- Others:
The EAMT 2009, the 12th Annual conference of the European Association for Machine Translation in Barcelona, May 13-15, 2009
The American Translator's Association 50th Annual conference will be held October 28-31, 2009 at the Marriot Marquis in New York
The ASLIB Conference, Translating and the Computer will be held Nov 19-20, 2009 at the Congress Centre, London, England [link is to CFP]
The NIST MT09 Evaluation Plan is now available
- Registration deadline: May 14, 2009
- Evaluation period: June 8-12, 2009
- Workshop: August 31 - September 1, 2009 (co-located with MT Summit XII in Ottawa, Canada)
Recent Events
Past Events
MT Summit XI was in Copenhagen, September 10-14, 2007
AMTA sponsored the Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation Workshop at NAACL 2007, April 26, 2007
AMTA-2006 was in Boston, Massachusetts, August 8-12, 2006
EMTA-2006 was in Oslo, Norway, June 19 & 20, 2006
MT Summit X was held September 12-16, 2005 in Phuket, Thailand
Conferences
AMTA Conferences
AMTA organizes and supports workshops, seminars, and symposia on
MT, to which members receive discounted rates. The biennial AMTA
conferences bring together MT users, system developers,
companies, researchers, and translation professionals to share ideas
and compare systems in a stimulating four-day event.
The History of the AMTA Conferences
| |
Theme |
Conference Site |
Dates |
| 1st |
Technology Partnerships for Crossing the
Language Barrier |
Columbia, Maryland |
Oct. 5-8, 1994 |
| 2nd |
Expanding MT horizons |
Montreal, Canada |
Oct. 2-5, 1996 |
| 3rd |
Machine Translation and The Information Soup |
Langhorne, Pennsylvania |
Oct. 28-31, 1998 |
| 4th |
Envisioning Machine Translation in the
Information Future |
Cuernavaca, Mexico |
Oct. 10-14, 2000 |
| 5th |
From Research to Real Users |
Tiburon, California |
Oct. 8-12, 2002 |
| 6th |
From Real Users to Research |
Georgetown University, Washington DC |
Sept. 28 - Oct 2, 2004 |
| 7th |
Visions for the Future of Machine Translation |
Cambridge, Massachusetts |
Aug. 8 - 12, 2006 |
| 8th |
|
Waikiki, Hawai'i |
October 21-25, 2008 |
Members can buy copies of videotapes and proceedings of
past conferences, including AMTA-96 and MT Summit 1997. Please
contact focalpoint@amtaweb.org
for prices.
MT Summit
Membership in AMTA ensures advance notice of AMTA-sponsored and
other events. One such event is the biennial MT Summit, held
in the years when no AMTA conference is organized.
The Summit is organized by the International Association for
Machine Translation (IAMT) and is aimed primarily at the media,
government, funding agencies, and the world of potential users. The
previous Summits were held in San Diego, California (1997), in
Singapore (1999), in Spain (2001), in New Orleans (2003)
and in Thailand (2005.)
They were greatly enjoyed for
their technical and social aspects.
The History of the MT Summit
| |
Organizer |
Conference Site |
Date |
| 1st |
AAMT |
Hakone, Japan |
Sept. 17-19, 1987 |
| 2nd |
EAMT |
Munich, Germany |
Aug. 16-18 1989 |
| 3rd |
AMTA |
Washington, USA |
Jul. 1-4, 1991 |
| 4th |
AAMT |
Kobe, Japan |
Jul. 19-22, 1993 |
| 5th |
EAMT |
Hemicycle, Luxembourg |
Jul. 10-13, 1995 |
| 6th |
AMTA |
San Diego, USA |
Oct. 29-Nov.1, 1997 |
| 7th |
AAMT |
Singapore |
Sept. 13-17, 1999 |
| 8th |
EAMT |
Santiago de Compostela, Spain |
Sept. 18-22, 2001 |
| 9th |
AMTA |
New Orleans, USA |
Sept. 23-27, 2003 |
| 10th |
AAMT |
Phuket, Thailand |
Sept. 12-16, 2005 |
| 11th |
EAMT |
Copenhagen, Denmark |
Sept. 10-14, 2007 |
| 12th |
AMTA |
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
August 26-30, 2009 |
Other regular conferences and meetings
Other regular conferences and meetings by the sister
organizations of AMTA in Europe and Asia are also announced. Reports
of these workshops and conferences are distributed to members at no
cost, as part of the MTNI Newsmagazine. Similarly, members are
informed of other meetings, such as the International Conference
on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation
(TMI), which is oriented toward research.
The History of the TMI Conferences
| |
Themes |
Conference Site |
Date |
| 1st |
|
New York, USA |
1985 |
| 2nd |
|
Pittsburgh, USA |
1988 |
| 3rd |
|
Austin, USA |
1990 |
| 4th |
|
Montreal, Canada |
1992 |
| 5th |
MT in the Next Generation |
Kyoto, Japan |
July 14-16, 1993 |
| 6th |
Computational semantics for MT,
MT of spoken language,
and the use of sublanguage/controlled language for MT |
Leuven, Belgium |
July 5-7, 1995 |
| 7th |
Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow |
Santa Fe, New Mexico |
July 23-25, 1997 |
| 8th |
Modalities and MT: Where can MT be used? |
Chester, England |
August 23-25, 1999 |
| 9th |
|
Keihanna, Japan |
March 13-17, 2002 |
10th |
| Baltimore, MD USA |
October 4-6, 2004 |
11th |
| Skövde, Sweden |
September 7-8, 2007 |
Related conferences and meetings
Also disseminated by AMTA is occasional information on related
events and opportunities, such as conferences organized by the
American Translators Association, the Association
for Computational Linguistics, and the Association for
Artificial Intelligence.
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