AMTA-2012
The Tenth Biennial Conference
of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas
Catamaran Resort Hotel, San Diego, California
October 28 - November 1, 2012
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MACHINE TRANSLATION IN THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION
AMTA-2012, the tenth Biennial Conference of the Association for Machine
Translation in the Americas, will be held at the Catamaran Resort Hotel
in San Diego California, from Sunday, October 28 through Thursday,
November 1. It will immediately follow the 53st Annual Conference of
the American Translators Association (ATA), also in San Diego, October
24-27. Following our very successful first collocation two years ago in
Denver, AMTA is happy to further our collaboration with the ATA.
Machine Translation technology is becoming a broadly-adopted technology
within the commercial translation industry, and this trend has
accelerated further over the past two years. The two conferences have
coordinated program content around common topics of interests. Our goal
has been to put together a conference program that can help MT
researchers and developers better understand the needs of translators
and of the commercial translation industry, as well as to help
translation professionals improve their understanding of modern MT
technology and the growing role of advanced translation automation
within the commercial translation industry.
We have assembled an exciting, diverse, and well-rounded program. Day 1
features keynote presentations by ATA President-Elect Caitilin Walsh and
by Luis von Ahn - the well-known research expert on crowd-sourcing and
the founder of Duolingo. The second day of our main conference will
focus on the growing commercial adoption of MT technology. It will
feature a keynote presentation by Don DePalma, Founder and Chief
Strategy Officer of Common Sense Advisory - the prominant business
analysis firm of the language services industry. Don's keynote, titled
"Trends in Adoption of MT as a Globalization Technology" will provide an
in-depth look at the factors driving the adoption of MT technology
within the industry. This will be followed by a plenary panel on the
topic, featuring key representatives from enterprises and service
providers that have invested in advanced MT technology. Day 3 focuses
on MT research. It features a keynote talk by Bonnie Dorr, Past
President of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), who
currently directs DARPA's main research programs in human language
technology. A second research keynote will be presented by the leaders
of this year's Johns Hopkins Summer Workshop on Domain Adaptation for
Machine Translation.
Our research program for AMTA 2012 includes a diverse slate of 18
presentations and 11 posters. The conference also includes exciting
program tracks with several dozen presentations about government and
commercial uses of MT in practice. And don't miss our MT Technology
Showcase - our popular exposition of MT technology exhibits and
demonstrations, which is free and open to the public. The full program
is now available on the conference website at: http://amta2010.amtaweb.org/
We scheduled in-depth tutorials and workshops on special topics of
interest both before and after the main conference. The six different
tutorials cover a range of introductory and advanced topics, such as
Using MT in Today's CAT Tools and Practical Domain Adaptation in SMT.
The three scheduled workshops focus on advanced topics including MT
Post-Editing Technology and Practice, monolingual methods in support of
MT, and Computational Approaches to Arabic-script-based Languages. For
full details, please see the conference website:
http://amta2010.amtaweb.org/
We look forward to seeing you in San Diego!!
Alon Lavie
AMTA-2012 General Chair
President, Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA)
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