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Final Call for Proposals for Workshops and Tutorials for AMTA 2024

 

The submission deadline has been extended to Friday, June 14 at 23:59 Anywhere on Earth (UTC-12)

 

The Board of Directors of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA) is pleased to announce the final call for proposals for workshops and tutorials for AMTA 2024, our 16th biennial conference. In a departure from past events, this year’s workshops and tutorials will be held online on September 18. The main conference will follow, running from September 30 to October 2, in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

The AMTA 2024 organizing committee invites submissions for tutorial and workshop proposals in machine translation (MT) and related areas, including generative AI and large language models (LLMs). The sessions may cover research, development, application and evaluation. We are aiming for a varied and engaging program for all MT community members—from researchers and developers to users and linguists.

For a list of suggested focus areas, refer to the call for papers of the main AMTA 2024 conference here.

 

Tutorials

Tutorials offer intensive training on specific topics in machine translation and related fields. The morning and afternoon sessions are 3 hours long. They provide attendees with deep-dives into specific technical, practical, and commercial aspects of MT and related technologies. For beginners, tutorials offer conceptual introductions to prepare for the conference’s broader content. Sessions may also feature hands-on exercises.

Submit your proposal by Friday, June 14, 2024, to tutorials@amtaweb.org and include the following: 

  • Title of Tutorial
  • Description of proposed content (250 – 500 words)
  • Short biography of presenter/s (up to 100 words)
  • Any technical requirements for attendees

For every accepted tutorial, we offer free registration for the full day of workshops and tutorials and for the three-day in-person conference, provided that the recipients stay at the conference hotel. 

 

Important dates  

  • Tutorial submission deadline: June 14, 2024
  • Notification of tutorial acceptance: July 18, 2024
  • Submission of slides, abstract, bibliography for tutorials: August 16, 2024

 

Workshops

AMTA workshops offer MT-related communities of practice full-day sessions to deepen their theoretical understanding and hands-on skills. The organizing committee will promptly notify authors of accepted proposals, providing sufficient preparation time. If we reject a proposal, we will provide reasons for it. Authors with accepted proposals will be responsible for promoting the workshop, producing camera-ready proceedings, and developing a workshop schedule in consultation with the organizing committee.

Submit your proposals as early as possible, no later than Friday, June 14, 2024, to workshops@amtaweb.org and include the following: 

  • Title of Workshop
  • Description of proposed content (250 – 500 words)
  • Short biography of presenter/s (up to 100 words)
  • Any technical requirements for attendees

For every accepted workshop, we offer free registration for the full day of workshops and tutorials and for the three-day in-person conference, provided that the recipients stay at the conference hotel.

 

Important dates  

  • Workshop submission deadline: June 14, 2024
  • Notification of workshop acceptance: on a rolling basis after receipt of a proposal
  • Submission of slides, abstract, bibliography for workshops: August 16, 2024

 

Recording

Please note: All presentations will be recorded without exception. By submitting a workshop or tutorial proposal, you are implicitly granting AMTA permission to record your session and share it with conference attendees, as well as archive it for AMTA, EAMT, and AAMT members.

 

Please direct any questions to tutorials@amtaweb.org or workshops@amtaweb.org.

 

We look forward to your proposal!

 

Cecilia Yalangozian, Chairperson, Workshops and Tutorials

Georg Kirchner, Co-organizer

Final Call for AMTA Best Thesis Award Submissions

To be presented at AMTA 2024, a three-day event under the auspices of
the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas

Monday, 30 Sept 2024 through Wednesday, 2 Oct 2024

Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center 

Chicago, Illinois, USA 

The submission deadline has been extended to Friday, June 14 at 23:59 Anywhere on Earth (UTC-12)

The Board of Directors of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas is pleased to announce the final call submissions for the first edition of the AMTA Best Thesis Award, which will be presented at AMTA 2024, the 16th biennial AMTA conference, a three-day hybrid event to be held from Monday, 30 September 2024 through Wednesday, 2 October 2024 at the Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

The AMTA Best Thesis Award aims to highlight the achievements of a recent PhD graduate whose thesis has focused on a topic or topics related to machine translation. Submissions will be evaluated on three primary dimensions: relevance (to the area of machine translation), impact (of the thesis and student’s related published works in the field), and difficulty of the challenge addressed in the thesis. The submissions will be reviewed by a committee of experts and the winner confirmed by the AMTA Board. We invite students to nominate themselves for consideration and encourage faculty to share this call with eligible and interested students.

 

Eligibility and Requirements

  • Completed a PhD dissertation/thesis on or after June 1st, 2023 and before June 1st, 2024 on a relevant topic (see below) at an institution in the Americas
  • Have not previously won an international award for the thesis
  • If the winning student goes on to publish their thesis, the published version must carry the note that it received this award from AMTA. The submitter also gives AMTA the right to publicize the granting of the award.

 

Scope and Topics

The topic of the thesis should be related to machine translation, but this can take many forms, including but not limited to: technical advancements in machine translation, research into the use of machine translation, and commercial or other aspects of machine translation.

Possible areas include:

  • Machine translation or computer-aided translation technologies, methods, software, or resources
  • Work on less-resourced languages, including topics related to corpora or less compute-intensive approaches
  • Use of machine translation in professional environments, such as by translators, translation agencies, localisation, etc.
  • Use and impact of machine translation more broadly, e.g., by non-professionals
  • Speech translation, sign language translation, or other multimodal or non-text translation
  • Evaluation of machine translation
  • The incorporation of machine translation into other technologies, or interactions between machine translation and other language technologies
  • … and more!

 

Prize 

  • $1000 USD prize
  • Invitation to present dissertation work at the 2024 AMTA Conference as an invited talk
  • Summary of the dissertation included in the 2024 AMTA proceedings
  • Free 2024 AMTA Conference registration
  • Free AMTA membership for the upcoming membership period

 

Important dates  

Note: all deadlines are 23:59 Anywhere on Earth (UTC-12)

  • Submission deadline: 14 June 2024
  • Notification of award: 31 July 2024
  • Final “camera-ready” short description for winning submission: 16 August 2024

 

Submission Instructions

Research papers submitted for peer review must be submitted via the “Main Conference – Best Thesis Award” track on the SUBMISSION WEBSITE. This site requires an easy-to-perform registration as an author.

You will need to answer some questions to confirm your eligibility in the submission form, including:

  • Confirming that you meet the eligibility criteria and agreeing to AMTA publicizing the thesis prize
  • Supervisor name and contact information (e-mail)
  • Institution that awarded the PhD
  • Date of thesis completion

You will need to submit the following three PDF files in the section “Drop files here / Upload from Computer”:

  • A 2-page summary of the thesis (summary written in English) formatted using the AMTA 2024 style guides (PDF version, LaTeX version, Word version). Please name the file “NAME_Summary.pdf” where NAME is your name.
  • A copy of the student’s CV (two pages maximum, in English). Please name the file “NAME_CV.pdf”
  • A complete list of publications directly related to the thesis (preferably with links). Please name the file “NAME_Publications.pdf”
  • An electronic copy of the thesis. Please name the file “NAME_Thesis.pdf. ” The thesis is NOT required to be in English. (Note: if your thesis is too large to upload, you may upload a file with a link to an online static version of the thesis.)

Optionally, in the supplementary material section, if you wish, you may upload: an appendix with any other relevant information on the thesis

 

Publication and recording

The proceedings, which will include all papers and presentations given at the conference, will be published on the ACL Anthology website. A brief summary of the winning thesis will be included in the proceedings.

Submission of a proposal will be understood by the Organizing Committee as the author’s tacit permission for AMTA to create an audio and video recording of the presentation and make it available to conference attendees and, through archiving on the association’s website, to members of AMTA.

Please direct any questions you may have to mtresearchers@amtaweb.org (Rebecca Knowles and Akiko Eriguchi).

 

We look forward to receiving your submission!

 

AMTA Board of Directors

Executive Committee:

Jay Marciano, President

Alex Yanishevsky, Vice President

David Bishop, Treasurer

Janice Campbell, Secretary

Steve Richardson, Counselor

Board of Directors:

Akiko Eriguchi, Director

Cecilia Yalangozian, Director

Konstantin Savenkov, Director

Marianna Martindale, Director

Rebecca Knowles, Director

 

Steve LaRocca, Director

Alon Lavie, Consultant 

Welcome to AMTA 2023

Keynote – Hype cycle, promising potential and everything in between MT in the age of LLMs

Talk 1 – The Limits of Language AI

Talk 2 – Evaluation of a Large Language Model for Speech to Text and Speech Translation

Talk 3 – Lost in GenAI, Found in MT 

Talk 4 – On the Fly Adaptation for Machine Translation using Large Language Models

Talk 5 – “Self driving” generative AI How can we take our hands off the wheel

Talk 6 – Domain and terminology adaptation with large language models A comparative user study

Talk 7 – Assessing the Accuracy and Uses of a Fine Tuned LLM’s Prediction of the Need for Humans

Talk 8 – Anti LM Decoding for Zero shot In Context Machine Translation

Panel Discussion Automation and or Augmentation

Talk 9 – The Promise of a Brand, New Day Time to Switch to LLMs

Talk 10 – The Future of MT from Sequence Transduction to Machine In The Loop Communication

Talk 11 – More Responsive Translation with Finetuned LLMs A Case Study by Welocalize and Google

Talk 12 – Performance Evaluation on Human Machine Teaming Augmented MT Enabled by GPT 4

Talk 13 – Leveraging ChatGPT machine translation capabilities for UGC

Talk 14 – Human Centered Augmented Translation

Talk 15 – Mindful AI Establishing an effective AI Ethics Board

Talk 16 – Improving Machine Translation Quality with Contextual Prompts in Large Language Models

Tutorial 1 – Prompt Engineering 101

Tutorial 2 – Five daily linguistic tasks enhanced by generative AI + MT solutions

Talk 17 – Learnings from a Year of Generative AI What Customers Need

Talk 18 – Cultural Transcreation for East Asian Languages with LLMs

Talk 19 – From research to production, releasing AI tools and products at scale

Talk 20 – Freely Available LLMs and Poetry Translation A Game Changer

Talk 21 – Embrace LLM Opportunities and Challenges

Talk 22 – Using LLMs to Automate Multilingual QAs

Closing

AMTA  2023 YouTube Recordings (Members Only)

AMTA 2023

Generative AI and the Future of MT

8 November 2023

 

PROGRAM

All times Eastern Standard Time

The program for this stimulating and informative virtual event includes two parallel channels of 20-minute presentations and tutorials, networking opportunities, a panel discussion, and a keynote address.

StartEndChannel 1PresenterTitleChannel 2PresenterTitle
9:3010:00Networking Networking   
10:0010:15WelcomeOrganizersIntroduction, housekeeping   
10:1511:00KeynoteChristian FedermannHype cycle, promising potential and everything in between: MT in the age of LLMs n/an/a
11:1011:30Talk 1Kirti VasheeThe Limits of Language AITalk 2Brendan Hatch, Evelyne TzoukermannEvaluation of a Large Language Model for Speech-to-Text and Speech Translation
11:3511:55Talk 3Konstantin SavenkovLost in GenAI, Found in MTTalk 4Kevin Duh,
Suzanna Sia		On-the-Fly Adaptation for Machine Translation using Large Language Models
12:0012:20Talk 5Adam Bittlingmayer“Self-driving” generative AI: How can we take our hands off the wheel?Talk 6Yuri BalashovDomain and terminology adaptation with large language models: A comparative user study
12:2512:45Talk 7Serge GladkoffAssessing the Accuracy and Uses of a Fine-Tuned LLM’s Prediction of the Need for Human InterventionTalk 8Suzanna SiaAnti-LM Decoding for Zero-shot In-Context Machine Translation
12:4513:15Lunch Networking     
13:1514:00Panel DiscussionDonald Barabé,
Markus Freitag,
Giovanna Lester,
Arle Lommel,
Steve Richardson		Automation and/or Augmentation: “What could AI do on its own?” becomes “What should we do and when? n/an/a
14:0514:25Talk 9Alex YanishevskyThe Promise of a Brand, New Day: Time to Switch to LLMs?Talk 10Marine CarpuatThe Future of MT: from Sequence Transduction to Machine-In-The-Loop Communication Across Languages
14:3014:50Talk 11Sarah Weldon,
Elaine O’Curran		Proposal for a Joint Case Study by Google and Welocalize – Custom TranslationTalk 12Ming QuianPerformance Evaluation on Human-Machine Teaming Augmented Machine Translation Enabled by GPT-4
14:5515:10Talk 13Lucie Bovyn,
Lucía Guerrero		Leveraging ChatGPT machine translation capabilities for UGCTalk 14Sharon O’BrienHuman-Centered Augmented Translation
15:1515:35Talk 15Jay MarcianoMindful AI: Establishing an effective AI Ethics BoardTalk 16Albert LLorensImproving Machine Translation Quality with Contextual Prompts in Large Language Models
15:3515:50Coffee Networking     
15:5016:30Tutorial 1Mei Chai ZhengPrompt Engineering 101Tutorial 2Luciana RamosFive daily linguistic tasks enhanced by generative AI + MT solutions
16:3516:55Talk 17Chris KränzlerLearnings from a Year of Generative AI: Customers need Control, Customizability, Contextualization, Transparency, and SecurityTalk 18Beatriz Silva, et alCultural Transcreation for East Asian Languages with LLMs
17:0017:20Talk 19Jennifer WongExploring Product Management for Machine Learning ProductsTalk 20Natalia ResendeFreely Available LLMs and Poetry Translation: A Game Changer?
17:2517:45Talk 21Martin Lei XiaoEmbrace LLM: Opportunities and ChallengesTalk 22Robert BrodowiczUsing LLMs to Automate Multilingual QAs
17:5018:10ClosingOrganizersThanks and Introduce AMTA Thesis Award n/an/a
18:1019:00Afterhours Networking     
Start End Channel 1 Presenter Title Channel 2 Presenter Title
9:30 10:00 Networking Networking
10:00 10:15 Welcome Organizers Introduction, housekeeping
10:15 11:00 Keynote Christian Federmann Hype cycle, promising potential and everything in between: MT in the age of LLMs n/a n/a
11:10 11:30 Talk 1 Kirti Vashee The Limits of Language AI Talk 2 Brendan Hatch, Evelyne Tzoukermann Evaluation of a Large Language Model for Speech-to-Text and Speech Translation
11:35 11:55 Talk 3 Konstantin Savenkov Lost in GenAI, Found in MT Talk 4 Kevin Duh, Suzanna Sia On-the-Fly Adaptation for Machine Translation using Large Language Models
12:00 12:20 Talk 5 Adam Bittlingmayer “Self-driving” generative AI: How can we take our hands off the wheel? Talk 6 Yuri Balashov Domain and terminology adaptation with large language models: A comparative user study
12:25 12:45 Talk 7 Serge Gladkoff Assessing the Accuracy and Uses of a Fine-Tuned LLM’s Prediction of the Need for Human Intervention Talk 8 Suzanna Sia Anti-LM Decoding for Zero-shot In-Context Machine Translation
12:45 13:15 Lunch Networking
13:15 14:00 Panel Discussion Donald Barabé, Markus Freitag, Giovanna Lester, Arle Lommel, Steve Richardson Automation and/or Augmentation: “What could AI do on its own?” becomes “What should we do and when? n/a n/a
14:05 14:25 Talk 9 Alex Yanishevsky The Promise of a Brand, New Day: Time to Switch to LLMs? Talk 10 Marine Carpuat The Future of MT: from Sequence Transduction to Machine-In-The-Loop Communication Across Languages
14:30 14:50 Talk 11 Sarah Weldon, Elaine O’Curran Proposal for a Joint Case Study by Google and Welocalize – Custom Translation Talk 12 Ming Quian Performance Evaluation on Human-Machine Teaming Augmented Machine Translation Enabled by GPT-4
14:55 15:10 Talk 13 Lucie Bovyn, Lucía Guerrero Leveraging ChatGPT machine translation capabilities for UGC Talk 14 Sharon O’Brien Human-Centered Augmented Translation
15:15 15:35 Talk 15 Jay Marciano Mindful AI: Establishing an effective AI Ethics Board Talk 16 Albert LLorens Improving Machine Translation Quality with Contextual Prompts in Large Language Models
15:35 15:50 Coffee Networking
15:50 16:30 Tutorial 1 Mei Chai Zheng Prompt Engineering 101 Tutorial 2 Luciana Ramos Five daily linguistic tasks enhanced by generative AI + MT solutions
16:35 16:55 Talk 17 Chris Kränzler Learnings from a Year of Generative AI: Customers need Control, Customizability, Contextualization, Transparency, and Security Talk 18 Beatriz Silva, et al Cultural Transcreation for East Asian Languages with LLMs
17:00 17:20 Talk 19 Jennifer Wong Exploring Product Management for Machine Learning Products Talk 20 Natalia Resende Freely Available LLMs and Poetry Translation: A Game Changer?
17:25 17:45 Talk 21 Martin Lei Xiao Embrace LLM: Opportunities and Challenges Talk 22 Robert Brodowicz Using LLMs to Automate Multilingual QAs
17:50 18:10 Closing Organizers Thanks and Introduce AMTA Thesis Award n/a n/a
18:10 19:00 Afterhours Networking
Register Here

The board of #AMTA (the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas) is pleased to announce a one-day virtual event, Generative AI and the Future of Machine Translation, to be held on Wednesday, 8 November 2023.

As we approach the first anniversary of the public release of ChatGPT, it is clear that 2023 is an inflection point in the history of MT, NLP, and NLU. This event is intended as a forum for a thoughtful exchange of ideas informed by a year of successes and failures in applying Large Language Models and generative AI to the challenges of cross-lingual communication and data processing.

Like all AMTA events, Generative AI and the Future of Machine Translation will bring together researchers, practitioners, and providers of MT and related cross-lingual technology from academia, industry, and government and will include a keynote talk, expert panel discussions, individual presentations, succinct tutorials for both beginners and more experienced practitioners, networking opportunities, and demonstrations from technology providers.

We are excited to announce that Christian Federmann, Principal Research Manager, Microsoft, and co-author (with Tom Kocmi) of “Large Language Models Are State-of-the-Art Evaluators of Translation Quality” (Link), will present the keynote address.

Registration for the event will open on 1 September 2023 on the AMTA website. Early-bird pricing ($99 for AMTA members / $149 for non-members) will be available until 18 October 2023. After that date, the price will be $129 for members and $179 for non-members. Registration will include access to recordings of the event.

See Program
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