Recent Events

• The 12th Machine Translation Summit was held in Ottawa, Ontario August 26-30, 2009. 300 participants from the international research, development, and user communities in government and the commercial sector enjoyed a dynamic exchange of ideas.

• The EAMT 2009, the 12th Annual conference of the European Association for Machine Translation in Barcelona, May 13-15, 2009

• AMTA2008 was held in Waikiki, Hawai'i October 21-25, 2008

Past Events

• MT Summit XI was in Copenhagen, September 10-14, 2007

• AMTA sponsored the Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation Workshop at NAACL 2007, April 26, 2007

• AMTA-2006 was in Boston, Massachusetts, August 8-12, 2006

• EMTA-2006 was in Oslo, Norway, June 19 & 20, 2006

• MT Summit X was held September 12-16, 2005 in Phuket, Thailand

Conferences

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 History of the AMTA Conferences

Members can buy copies of videotapes and proceedings of past conferences, including AMTA-96 and MT Summit 1997. Please contact focalpoint@amtaweb.org for prices.

MT Summit

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 previous Summits were held in San Diego, California (1997), in Singapore (1999), in Spain (2001), in New Orleans (2003) and in Thailand (2005.) They were greatly enjoyed for their technical and social aspects.

The History of the MT Summit

Other regular conferences and meetings

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 History of the TMI Conferences

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.