AMTA 2024: 16th Biennial Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas
NEW submission deadline: 14 June, 2024, 23:59 Anywhere on Earth (UTC-12) The AMTA deadline has been extended by a week and a day for all submission types: research papers (full papers), presentation proposals, thesis award, tutorials, and workshops! Conference: 30 Sept.-2 October, 2024 Chicago, Illinois https://amtaweb.org/amta-2024/ The organizing committee of AMTA 2024 is seeking submissions on all topics related to research, development, application, and evaluation of Machine Translation and cross-lingual technologies. Our goal is to have a broad and engaging program that appeals to the various constituents of the MT community (researchers, developers, users, and language professionals). The deadline for tutorial and workshop proposals is also extended to June 14th, 2024 (see below). Like all AMTA events, AMTA 2024 will bring together researchers, practitioners, and providers of MT and related cross-lingual technology from academia, industry, and government. It will include keynote talks, panel discussions, individual presentations, and demonstrations from technology providers throughout 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. Work can be submitted through two review methods (see below): 1. Peer reviewed research papers (published in the conference proceedings) 2. A less formal review process for other presentations This year, we are also excited to invite submissions for the 2024 AMTA Best Thesis Award (see below). Finally, proposals for tutorials and workshops are still open. *** PEER REVIEWED RESEARCH PAPERS *** For research papers, we invite contributions that relate to topics including but not limited to: - Latest advances in MT - Training Data: data sources, extraction, alignment, and cleaning of corpora, terminology, data augmentation, metadata extraction, multimodal data, etc. - Adaptation and customization of MT models or LLMs for cross-lingual use cases - MT for low resource languages - Model distillation, compression, and on-device MT - MT for multiple modalities (speech, sign language, video, etc.) - Integration of MT and related cross-lingual technologies in translation and localization pipelines, including production scenarios and deployment - Output quality estimation and evaluation: tools, methods, and metrics, such as human evaluations, automatic scoring, and automatic annotation of MT output - Measuring fairness, bias, and transparency in output - Post-editing, interactive, and human-in-the-loop methods: New approaches, successes and failures, applicability to different content-types, etc. - The interaction of language professionals (e.g., translators and interpreters) with MT and generative AI tools and output - Ethics, policy, and regulatory trends concerning the use of MT or generative AI for cross-lingual use cases - ... and much more! Research papers submitted for peer review should be anonymized work that has not been previously published, no longer than 8 pages (for references, unlimited additional pages are allowed; appendices can also extend beyond the page limit, though the paper should be self-contained as reviewers are not required to consult the appendices), should follow the AMTA 2024 style guides, and be submitted to the "Main Conference - Research (Peer Review)" track on the submission website (https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/AMTA2024). The deadline is for full paper submissions. Please see the Call for Papers & Presentations for more details on both types of submissions (including links to formatting templates): https://amtaweb.org/amta-2024-call-for-proposals/ For any questions about the submission of peer reviewed papers, please contact: mtresearch...@amtaweb.org<mailto:mtresearch...@amtaweb.org> *** OTHER PRESENTATIONS *** Abstracts for presentation proposals (final submissions can optionally include paper and/or slide decks) should be submitted via the "Main Conference - Presentation Proposals" track on the submission website (https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/AMTA2024). Please see the Call for Papers & Presentations for more details on both types of submissions: https://amtaweb.org/amta-2024-call-for-proposals/ For questions concerning the presentation proposals, please write an e-mail to presentation_propos...@amtaweb.org<mailto:presentation_propos...@amtaweb.org> *** THESIS AWARD *** The AMTA Best Thesis Award aims to highlight the achievements of a recent PhD graduate who has completed a PhD dissertation on or after June 1st, 2023 and before June 1st 2024, on a topic related to machine translation, at an institution in the Americas. The winner will receive a $1000 USD prize, along with an invitation to present the dissertation work at the 2024 AMTA conference, and free registration and membership. Please see the Call for Submissions for more details and eligibility requirements: https://amtaweb.org/amta-2024-cfp-best-thesis-award/ Please direct any questions you may have about the thesis prize to mtresearch...@amtaweb.org<mailto:mtresearch...@amtaweb.org> (Rebecca Knowles and Akiko Eriguchi). *** TUTORIALS AND WORKSHOPS *** 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). Tutorials offer intensive training on specific topics in machine translation and related fields including both deep dives into technology and introductory sessions for beginners; they are 3 hours long. Workshops are expected to be full-day events. This year's workshops and tutorials will be held online on September 18, prior to the main conference. For details, see: https://amtaweb.org/amta-2024-cfp-workshops-tutorials/ and direct any questions to tutori...@amtaweb.org<mailto:tutori...@amtaweb.org> or worksh...@amtaweb.org<mailto:worksh...@amtaweb.org>.
