----------- Second Announcement --------- The Association for Machine Translation in the Americas AMTA-2000 Conference Location: Cuernavaca, Mexico Dates: October 10-14, 2000 Envisioning Machine Translation in the Information Future The Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA) is happy to announce the plans for the fourth biennial conference, planned for October 10-14 at Mision del Sol, near Cuernavaca, Mexico. The theme of AMTA-2000 is "Envisioning MT in the Information Future." The focus will be on the articulation of future visions of MT: in the '00 decade, the 21st century, and even in the third millennium. Ubiquitous, instant Internet access will be available very soon from a host of appliances and apparel. Later on, ways of thinking about the universe of information will transcend our current metaphors of networks, clients, servers, and communication. How will these and other possible paths into the future affect our exponential need for translation? Will the process of translation become transparent? How long before we each have a true babelfish in our ear? Will the quality ceiling finally be broken by incremental improvements, or by an as yet unimagined breakthrough? Will translation even be necessary - will globalization lead to a single language, or will translation allow for the growth of local languages? Every current topic in multilingual information processing is germane to this discourse, especially as it points the way to the near term and long term role of MT in the information world of the future. As in the past, the conference will feature a lively and engaging variety of invited speakers, panel discussions, demonstrations, workshops, tutorials, and technical papers by researchers, developers, and users. AMTA invites everyone interested in machine translation to participate in this conference - developers, researchers, users, professional translators, managers, marketing experts - anyone who has a stake in the vision of an information world in which language issues become transparent to the information consumer. We especially invite users to share their experiences, developers to describe what is happening in the Internet marketplace, researchers looking to new capabilities, and visionaries to describe the future. Colleagues from Latin America who are involved in or interested in MT or other human language technologies, are especially welcome to participate and submit papers, workshops, tutorials, and demonstrations. Paper and Demo Abstracts are due April 14. Please note that you may submit papers which are also submitted for the Association for Computational Linguistics main conference (Hong Kong). Simply indicate this information with the submission. We also welcome and encourage participation by members of AMTA's sister organizations, AAMT in Asia and EAMT in Europe. We also urge people working in related areas in information processing to participate as well. For complete information about the conference, local arrangements, tutorials and workshops, and registration, please see the web site at: http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/conferences/ <http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/conferences/> David Farwell, General Chair John S. White, Program Chair Muriel Vasconcellos, Local Arrangement Chair Laurie Gerber, Tutorials and Workshops Chair -- For MT-List info, see http://www.eamt.org/mt-list.html
