Call for Exhibitors

The Machine Translation Summit, hosted by the International Association for Machine Translation, is an exciting event for anyone interested in translation technology. This biennial event comes to the US only once every 6 years, and provides a forum for researchers, developers, vendors, users, shoppers, funders and policymakers from the U.S. and abroad to learn about new developments and best practices in each area of machine translation.

The following companies have already signed up! Only 5 spaces left!

ArchiText Translations
Basis Technology
Beetext
Ciyasoft
CLS Communication Inc.
IBM
LanA Consulting
Language Technology Centre
Language Weaver, Inc.
Multilingual Computing
Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
Systran Software

The MT Summit attracts participants from Asia and Europe as well as the United States.

The last couple of years have brought some exciting developments in many areas: evolutionary advances in MT research, lots of forward-thinking deployments of MT, significant improvements in existing commercial products, and a whole cohort of startup companies commercializing newer approaches to the core problems of machine translation.

The organizing team for the exhibits at the 9th international MT Summit is energetically working on attracting more users and shoppers to this event with targeted local, national and international publicity. The key to increasingly lively and interesting commercial events depends on bringing together the people who need the technology and the vendors who can help them. When we polled users, potential users, and funders about what would make them want to attend the conference, it was primarily a good variety of vendors to talk to.

In addition to MT developers and vendors, we are particularly eager to include

consultants and integrators who can help potential users to understand and make the best use of the technology that is available
providers of companion technologies that can leverage or provide leverage to machine translation, such as content management, globalization management systems, translation memory, and others.
Providers of component technologies that may be of interest to other developers and researchers, such as morphological analysers and generators, parsers, and others.

Exhibition dates

From: Tuesday, September 23 (opening at 6:00 p.m. - conference reception will be in and around exhibits.)

To: Friday, September 26 (closing at 5:00 pm when the conference concludes.)

Exhibition rooms available for setup: Tuesday, September 23, 12:00 noon.

Securing and Paying for Your Exhibit Space

The exhibit fee is $600 for Corporate and Institutional members of any IAMT regional division (AAMT, AMTA, EAMT), $800 for non-members, and includes:

Tabletop exhibit area
Sign for each exhibitor
Skirted table and two chairs

Monitors and other display equipment can be rented from Swank Audio Visuals. (504) 529-4797

MT Summit IX in Brief

The 9th International Association for Machine Translation Summit conference will be held at the elegant and historic Fairmont hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana, September 23-27, 2003. Expected attendance at the conference is between 200 and 300 people, including MT shoppers, representatives of the U.S. Government, consultants, localization companies and tool providers, MT researchers and developers.

Up to two representatives of each exhibitor may staff the exhibit, and are welcome to attend the conference sessions. If an exhibitor wishes to have more than two representatives, they are asked to register as regular conference participants. Exhibitors may also register for the banquet, tutorials, and workshops. Further information, and a registration form, are available at: http://www.mt-summit.org

Please send questions to:

Laurie Gerber or Keith Miller, Exhibits Coordinators, MT Summit IX

Laurie Gerber
Tel: 619-200-8344
Email: gerbl@pacbell.net

Keith Miller
Email : Keith@mitre.org