AMTA 2026 – Third and Final Call for Workshops and Tutorials
Third and Final Call for Proposals
Workshops and Tutorials for AMTA 2026
Held virtually on Wednesday, 19 August 2026
Contact: Vera Senderowicz Guerra (tutorials@amtaweb.org or workshops@amtaweb.org)
We are pleased to announce the third and final call for workshops and tutorials for AMTA 2026, the 17th biennial conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas. The conference will be held in-person from August 31 to September 2, 2026, at the Centre des congrès de Québec, in Québec City, Canada, but workshops and tutorials will be held virtually on Wednesday, August 19, 2026.
AMTA conferences are unique in bringing together MT researchers, users, and providers of MT technology from academia, industry, and government.
- For researchers and developers, AMTA 2026 will provide unique opportunities to share their latest results with colleagues as well as understand real-world user requirements.
- Participants from industry and government will benefit from updates on leading-edge R&D in Machine Translation and have a chance to present and discuss use cases.
As with our previous conference, AMTA 2026 will also provide a virtual day of workshops and tutorials ahead of the conference. These are held virtually to increase the availability of these tutorials to participants who are unable to attend the live conference.
The organizing committee of AMTA 2026 is seeking proposals for workshops and tutorials on all topics related to MT and multilingual AI research, development, application, and evaluation. Our goal is to have a program of workshops and tutorials that appeals to the various constituents of the MT community (researchers, developers, commercial users, and language professionals). Therefore we welcome not only proposals on deeply technical research and development topics but also on, for instance, the collection and curation of training data, best practices in training and evaluating MT systems, human/computer interaction among translators, interpreters, and other users of MT output, support of low-resource languages, and the evolving role of translation automation in the commercial translation production pipeline.
To provide an idea of the kind of tutorials that have proved highly successful in the recent past, our 2024 program included titles such as:
- Quick-Start Guide to Understanding & Working with MT & AI
- Best Practices in Prompt Engineering for the Globalization Lifecycle
- Best Practices for Automated Interpreting Implementation
- Bias in machine translation: challenges, techniques, perspectives
- Controlling LLM Translations of Invariant Elements via RAG
- Creating Text-to-Speech Software for Every Language
- Edit distances and their application to downstream tasks
For the first time in the history of AMTA, we will accept proposals for tutorials that will be held in English, Spanish or French.
Tutorials
Tutorials are a forum for experts in MT and multilingual AI-related areas to deliver concentrated training on a topic of interest in half-day teaching sessions. Tutorials help participants enrich their understanding of particular technical, applied, and business matters surrounding research, development and use of MT and associated technologies, or, in the case of tutorials designed for newcomers, provide background information that facilitates greater understanding of the overall conference program.
Proposals for tutorials should be submitted by May 6, 2026, to tutorials@amtaweb.org and include:
- the title
- a 250-500 word description of the proposed content
- the language in which the tutorial will be presented (English, French, or Spanish)
- a short (<100 words) biographical introduction to the proposed presenter(s)
After your proposal is received, you will be sent the Tutorial Policy and Leader Agreement Form, which you need to sign, scan, and return by May 8, 2026.
Workshops
AMTA workshops are intended to provide the opportunity for MT-related communities of interest to spend focused time together advancing the state of thinking or the state of practice in their area of interest or endeavor. Workshops are generally scheduled as full-day events.
Every effort will be made to accept or reject (with reason) workshop proposals as soon as possible after they are received by the organizing committee so that the workshop organizers have adequate time to prepare the workshop.
We encourage you to submit your proposals for a workshop as early as possible should be submitted no later than April 15, 2026, to workshops@amtaweb.org and include:
- the title
- a 250-500 word description of the proposed content
- whether this is an ongoing or new workshop
- a short (<100 words) biographical introduction to the proposed presenter(s)
- the expected number of participants
- and dates for important milestones (call for papers, recruitment of speakers, etc.)
After your proposal is received, you will be sent the AMTA Workshop Policy and Leader Agreement Form, which you need to sign, scan, and return by May 6, 2026.
Recording
Please note: Due to the virtual nature of the workshops and tutorials, all presentations without exception will be recorded. Submission of a workshop or tutorial proposal will be understood by the MT Summit Organizing Committee as your tacit permission for AMTA to create an audio and video recording of your presentation and make it available to conference attendees and, through archiving, to members of AMTA, EAMT, and AAMT.
We look forward to receiving your proposal!