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The Eighth Conference of the
Association for Machine Translation
in the Americas
Waikiki, Hawai'i
Conference Home Page Hilton Prince Kuhio Hotel, Waikiki, Hawai'i
October 21-25, 2008

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Program At-A-Glance

Full Program

Keynote Speakers

[updated] Accepted Papers

Tutorials

Workshops

Technology Showcase

Special Events

Fees & Registration

Accommodations
Look for the best price, and
please stay at the Prince Kuhio.

Local Information:
Waikiki, HI

Sponsorships

Organizers





Call for Papers
[Submissions are now closed]

Paper Submissions
Use these Templates
to submit camera-ready
Research Papers in pdf:

MS Word file

MS Word template

pdf Format

LaTEX2e format

LaTEX2e Style file

ACL Bibliography Style file

 


The Program at a Glance
All events will be held at the Hilton Prince Kuhio Hotel, Waikiki, Hawai'i.
Monday, October 20 International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT)
Tuesday, October 21 International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT)
AMTA Begins Morning Afternoon Evening
Tutorials: Introduction to Globalization (Lommel)


Sixty Years of Statistical Machine Translation (Knight)		 Tutorials: Language Processing Standards (Lommel);

Arabic Natural Language Processing for Machine Translation (Habash)
Workshop: Recipes for Success: Ingredients of Stable and Productive MT Deployments (morning and afternoon) Reception
Wednesday, October 22 Welcome;
Keynote Presentation;
Panel: What we need from MT

Papers and Presentations;
LISA @ AMTA;
AMTA General Membership Meeting
Thursday, October 23 Papers and Presentations;
LISA @ AMTA;
Keynote Presentations 		Technology Showcase and Poster Session;
Student Research Symposium

Banquet
Friday, October 24 Papers and Presentations;
LISA @ AMTA;
Keynote Presentations

Papers and Presentations;
Closing Session
Saturday, October 25 Tutorial: Authoring for Translatability and Self-Service Support (Schütz and Dillinger)
Tutorial: Statistical Machine Translation - Theory and Practice (Koehn and Mehay; morning and afternoon)
NIST Workshop: Metrics for Machine Translation Challenge (MetricsMATR) (morning and afternoon)
Sunday, October 26 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
Monday, October 27 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
Tuesday, October 28 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)

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Last updated: 1 August, 2008