Misión Del Sol
Cuernavaca, 1 hour south of Mexico City
Mexico
October 10-14, 2000
With its theme Envisioning MT in the Information Future, the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA) devotes its fourth conference AMTA2000 in the biennial series to the future. The focus will be on the articulation of future visions of MT: in the '00 decade, the 21st century, and even in the third millennium. Ubiquitous, instant internet access will be available very soon from a host of appliances and apparel. Later on, ways of thinking about the universe of information will transcend our current metaphors of networks, clients, servers, and communication. How will these and other possible paths into the future affect our exponential need for translation? Will the process of translation become transparent? How long before we each have a true babelfish in our ear? Will the quality ceiling finally be broken by incremental improvements, or by an as yet unimagined breakthrough? Will translation even be necessary--will globalization lead to a single language, or will translation allow for the growth of local languages?
Every current topic in multilingual information processing is germane to this discourse, especially as it points the way to the near term and long term role of MT in the information world of the future.
As in the past, the conference will feature a lively and engaging variety of invited speakers, panel discussions, demonstrations, workshops, tutorials, and technical papers by researchers, developers, and users.
AMTA invites everyone interested in machine translation to participate in this conference--developers, researchers, users, professional translators, managers, marketing experts--anyone who has a stake in the vision of an information world in which language issues become transparent to the information consumer. We especially invite users to share their experiences, developers to describe what is happening in the internet marketplace, researchers looking to new capabilities, and visionaries to describe the future.
Colleagues from Latin America who are involved in or interested in MT or other human language technologies, are especially welcome to participate and submit papers, workshops, tutorials, and demonstrations.
We also welcome and encourage participation by members of AMTA's sister organizations, AAMT in Asia and EAMT in Europe. We also urge people working in related areas in information processing to participate as well.
The program at a glance
| Tuesday October 10 |
Workshop 1: Hands on Evaluation
Workshop 2: MT in Practice: The User Experience Workshop 3: Interlingual MT |
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| Wednesday October 11 |
Tutorial 1: A Gentle Introduction to MT
Tutorial 2: Controlled Languages Tutorial 3: Ontological Semantics |
Tutorial 4: MTranslatability
Tutorial 5: Diversity, Distribution of Languages Tutorial 6: Statistical MT |
Reception |
| Thursday October 12 | Conference: Talks, demos, exhibits | ||
| Friday October 13 | Conference: Talks, demos, exhibits | Banquet | |
| Saturday October 14 | Conference: Talks, demos, exhibits | ||