AMTA 2020 – VIRTUAL October 6-9
Registration for AMTA 2020 will open soon.Fees are below. The14th biennial conference of the Association for Machine Translation in theAmericas. https://amtaweb.org The single registration fees listed in thetable below will include attendance at all tutorials and workshops, as well as atall presentations in the three conference tracks: Commercial, Research, andGovernment. Additionally, after eachpresentation, a recording will be available for viewing on demand during theconference week and for a period of weeks after the conference. Attendees will thus be able to enjoy allsessions and presentations even if they could not attend them at the time theywere given. The regular registration fees also include atwo-year membership in AMTA (a US$100 value for non-students and US$50 for students),which allows members to register for the upcoming MTSummit XVIII conference in 2021 as well as for conferences hosted by our sisterorganizations, EAMT and AAMT, at a discountedmember rate. We further announce that due to the generoussponsorship of Microsoft, the first onehundred students who register for AMTA 2020 will pay a significantly discountedfee. When registration opens next week, fees willbe in US dollars as follows: | Registration Type | Early Fee* | Late Fee ** | Includes | | Regular Individual | $190 | $225 | conference registration and 2-year AMTA membership | | Regular Student | $75 | $90 | conference registration and 2-year AMTA membership | | First 100 Students Sponsored by Microsoft | $10 | N/A | conference registration and 2-year AMTA membership | | Current Members of EAMT or AAMT | $90 | $125 | conference registration; no AMTA membership | *Early Fee – through Monday, September 28 **Late Fee – starting Tuesday, September 29 Conference workshops and tutorials will takeplace on Tuesday, October 6. Currently confirmed are: | Tutorial 1 | Quick-Start Guide to Understanding & Working with Machine Translation | | | Presenter: Adam Wooten (Middlebury Institute of International Studies) | | Tutorial 2 | NMT Domain Adaptation Techniques | | | Presenter: Yasmin Moslem (ADAPT Centre) | | Workshop 1 | 1st Workshop on Post-Editing in Modern-Day Translation (PEMDT1) | | | Organizers: John E. Ortega (Universitat d’Alacant and New York University), Marcello Federico (Amazon), Constantin Orasan (University of Surrey), Maja Popovic (ADAPT Centre) | | Workshop 2 | Virtual Workshop on the Impact of Machine Translation (iMpacT 2020) | | | Organizers: Sharon O'Brien (ADAPT, CTTS Dublin City University), Michel Simard (National Research Council Canada) | On the three main conference days, Wednesday,October 7 – Friday, October 9, the schedule* will be: | 8:00am-9:00am | session opening and keynote speaker | | 9:00am-11:00am | parallel tracks consisting of four half-hour presentations each | | 11:00am-1:00pm | four half-hour demonstrations by exhibitors and/or lunch break | | 1:00pm-2:00pm | session opening and keynote speaker | | 2:00pm-4:00pm | parallel tracks consisting of four half-hour presentations each | *All times are Pacific Daylight Time (UTC-7): A complete program will be posted in earlyAugust after the paper acceptance date. Thekeynote talks will feature these recognized experts in the development andapplication of machine translation from research, industry, and government: Colin Cherry (Google Research) Mona Diab (George WashingtonUniversity) Chris Wendt (Microsoft Research) Danielle Silverman (National VirtualTranslation Center) Eric Paquin (Translators withoutBorders) Andy Way (ADAPT Centre,Dublin City University) Additionally, there will be two 1-hour studentmentoring sessions featuring experts from research, industry, andgovernment who will give brief opening presentations and then lead Q&Adiscussions on employment opportunities in machine translation and on preparingfor those opportunities. These sessionswill be held in parallel with other tracks and/or scheduled in the evening toavoid conflicts for students who wish to attend the live session. For academic and commercial researchers, AMTA2020 provides a unique opportunity to share the latest results with colleaguesas well as understand real-world user requirements. Business and governmentparticipants will benefit from updates on leading-edge R&D in MachineTranslation and have a chance to present and discuss their use cases. We look forward to “seeing” you at AMTA 2020 -VIRTUAL! SteveRichardson AMTA President
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