AMTA 2008

AMTA Home Page		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

The links below will be active as the information becomes available.

Program At-A-Glance

Full Program

Keynote Speakers

[updated] Accepted Papers

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:

ACL Bibliography Style file

What's New: (previous postings)

29 July 2008:

Date for Notification to Authors pushed back to August 11

Notifications to Authors of acceptance for presentations will be sent by August 11,
due to the large number of submissions for this year's Conference.
Thank you for your submissions, and for your patience.

26 June 2008:

Deadline for submitting Research Papers extended

The deadline for submitting Research and Student Research Papers has been extended to
Thursday, July 3, at 11:59 PM EST (New York time zone).

14 June 2008:

Templates for submitting Research Papers are available

Please use the templates available on this page to submit your research papers.

14 May 2008:

SECOND Call for Papers, Presentations, and Proposals is available

We're very pleased to invite researchers and users of MT to present their experiences at AMTA2008 in Hawai'i. More information on submissions is at the Second Call for Papers link on this page or in pdf format here.

April 2008:

Update: EMNLP will co-locate with AMTA, Oct 25-27

The 2008 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing EMNLP2008 will be held at the same venue as AMTA 2008, immediately afterwards. More information about the EMNLP Meeting is now available here.

10 March 2008:

Update: NIST Workshop Site is available

More information about the NIST Metrics MATR: The Metrics for MAchine TRanslation challenge is now available here.

14 February 2008:

Call for Papers, Presentations, and Proposals is available

We're very pleased to invite researchers and users of MT to present their experiences at AMTA2008 in Hawai'i. More information on submissions is at the Call for Papers link on this page or in pdf format here.

18 January 2008:

NIST Workshop @ AMTA2008, Oct 25

We're very pleased to welcome NIST to join us in Hawai'i.
They're organizing Metrics MATR: The Metrics for MAchine TRanslation challenge on October 25.

4 January 2008:

LISA @ AMTA2008

We're very pleased to welcome the Localization Industry Standards Association (LISA) to join us in Hawai'i for joint programming.

27 October 2007: Conference web page up.

IWSLT 2008 co-locates with AMTA2008, Oct 20-21

We're very pleased to welcome the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT) to join us in Hawai'i.
The IWSLT 2008 workshop will be on October 20-21.

AMTA's mission is to bring together and promote discussion between
researchers, developers, and users of machine translation and related translation technologies.

For AMTA 2008, we are offering a wide array of up-to-date content about translation automation:

first-rate research that defines the cutting edge of future translations systems,
case studies on practical uses of current translation systems in government and industry,
panel discussions of issues that affect everyone interested in translation automation,
a showcase of current and future translation technologies and products.
in-depth tutorials on specific topics in research and use of translation automation,
specialized workshops on topics of current interest,
co-located workshops, such as the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation,
social events to promote discussion between all of the attendees,
and many other events.

For more information, please contact:
Mike Dillinger ( president@amtaweb.org ), Conference Chair.

Submission details and other information about the conference will be available soon!

Come to join us to:

Hear about first-rate, cutting edge MT research
Hear how current users are solving problems by using MT
See an exhibition and demonstration of

commercial MT and translation tools
research prototypes
US government translation technology deployments

Have fun!

president@amtaweb.org
Last updated: 1 August, 2008