Association for Machine Translation in the Americas
AMTA Conferences
AMTA organizes and supports workshops, seminars, and symposia on MT, to
which members receive discounted rates. The biennial AMTA conferences
bring together MT users, system developers, companies, researchers, and
translation professionals to share ideas and compare systems in a stimulating
four-day event. The most recent conferences near Washington (1994), in
Montreal (1996), near Philadelphia (1998), and next Mexico City (2000) were considered highly successful
and fun events. The next AMTA conference will be held
at the Tiburon Lodge, situated in the picturesque town of the same name, about 30 miles north (and just across the Bay) from San Francisco. Click AMTA2002 for details.
MT Summit and other conferences
Membership in AMTA ensures advance notice of AMTA-sponsored and other
events. One such event is the biennial MT Summit, held in the
years when no AMTA conference is organized. The Summit is organized by
the International Association for Machine Translation (IAMT) and is aimed
primarily at the media, government, funding agencies, and the world of
potential users. The three previous Summits were held in San Diego,
California (1997), in Singapore (1999) and in Santiago de Compostela, Spain (2001); they were greatly enjoyed for their technical and social aspects.
Other regular conferences and meetings by the sister organizations of AMTA in Europe and Asia are also announced. Reports of these workshops and conferences are distributed to members at no cost, as part of the MTNI Newsmagazine. Similarly, members are informed of other meetings, such as the International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation (TMI), which is oriented toward research. The previous TMI conferences were held in Santa Fe, New Mexico (1997), and in Chester, England (1999). The 9th Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues will be held March 13-17, 2002 near the historic cities of Nara and Kyoto in Japan. Click TMI-2002 for details.
Related conferences and meetings
Also disseminated by AMTA is occasional information on related events and
opportunities, such as conferences organized by the American Translators
Association, the Association for Computational Linguistics, and the
Association for Artificial Intelligence.
Yellow Pages
AMTA publishes the MT Yellow Book, a useful classified catalogue
of individuals, institutions, and companies involved in MT. This book,
which is updated frequently, is free for members, whose names appear
automatically in the membership roster and who receive a free listing
under one of the classified headings. Corporate members receive a
full-page display advertisement.
MTNI newsmagazine
AMTA membership includes a complimentary subscription to MT News
International, a newsmagazine that covers MT events around the world
and brings it all together in one place. (If your organization is not in
a position to affiliate with AMTA, nonmember subscriptions to MTNI are
available at US$75.00 a year. Back issues, as long as supplies last,
are US$10.00 each). For more
information on the MTNI newsmagazine, click here.
MT Compendium
AMTA members receive access to the MT Compendium at a deeply
discounted price. A preliminary version of the MT Compendium, a world
guide to commercial MT systems, large and small, plus noncommercial projects
and research under way, has been put onto the web for initial dissemination.
This Compendium lists several hundred MT vendors, whose products number
well over a thousand; these together cover an impressive array of
language combinations and user options. The MT Compendium is edited by
W. John Hutchins (University of East Anglia, England). For more information,
please contact Debbie Becker at amtainfo@att.net.
Journal: Machine Translation
AMTA members receive a 10% discount when subscribing to the academic journal
Machine Translation, which appears quarterly with in-depth scholarly
articles on aspects of machine translation. The journal is published by
Kluwer Academic Publishers. For 1999,
the subscription price is US$90 for individuals (instead of US$122). To
subscribe, please send a letter to that effect, including your name and
address and a check for US$90, to:
AMTA Conference Proceedings
Starting with AMTA-98, the AMTA conference Proceedings are published
as books and distributed internationally by Springer-Verlag, in the series
(I>Lecture Notes in AI. To order a copy, please contact Springer
directly. You can order online, at
http://www.springer.de/customers/index.html; follow the link Orders
-- Books and Electrnioc Media and order by searching for the first
author (Farwell). Alternatively, you can order by mail as follows:
For the Proceedings of AMTA-96 and AMTA-98, please contact Debbie Becker
(AMTAinfo@att.net).
Free membership in any of the AMTA Special Interest Groups (SIGs). Currently there are SIGs devoted to:
Please contact Eduard Hovy hovy@isi.edu if you wish to join any of the SIGs.
Click here for more information on AMTA's Special Interest Groups.
AMTA facilitates access by researchers to machine-readable corpora and cooperation on the exchange of formats and text-encoding conventions, as well as discussions about establishing reference criteria for the evaluation of the technology.
AMTA members are engaged in developing training materials and programs, and in maintaining lists of the latest technology and innovations available.
To contact the sister organizations of AMTA, or the international umbrella organization IAMT, please click here for
AMTA, both on its own initiative and through its links with IAMT, provides its members with appropriate tools for studying, evaluating, and using machine translation. It does not, however, provide direct services to individuals, and it does not recommend specific MT systems.
Annual membership in AMTA is US$60 for individuals, US$200 for institutions, and US$400 for corporations. Click here for information on contacting and joining AMTA.
Last updated: Wed Nov 14 15:00:11 PST 2001