The Tenth Biennial Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas

The tenth biennial conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA-2012) will be held at the Catamaran Resort Hotel in San Diego, California, Sunday, October 28 through Thursday, November 1, 2012.AMTA-2012 will take place immediately following the 53st Annual Conference of the American Translators Association (ATA), also taking place in San Diego, October 24-27.

The two conferences are coordinating program content around joint topics of interest. These are designed to deepen MT researchers' and developers' understanding of the needs of the commercial translation industry and human translators, while also fostering translators' understanding of modern MT technology and the role of advanced translation automation in enterprise globalization and commercial translation processes.

In addition to a research track, the main AMTA-2012 conference program will once again include presentation tracks for government and commercial users of MT and a "Technology Showcase" of commercial and research-stage MT technology.

Tutorials and workshops will be held on Sunday, October 28 and on Thursday, November 1.

Program Highlights:

Invited Keynote talks by Bonnie Dorr (DARPA) and Luis von Ahn (Duolingo)!

· Sunday Tutorial by Jost Zetzsche on Using MT in Today's CAT Tools!
· Sunday Workshop on MT Post-Editing Technology and Practice!
· Additional exciting workshops and tutorials (see detailed program)!
· MT Technology Showcase Exhibition - free and open to the public!

For further information or to register please go here: http://amta2012.amtaweb.org/Default.aspx

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