Conferences, Workshops, and other Meetings 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), AMTA-98 near Philadelphia (1998), and AMTA-2000 in Cuernavaca, near Mexico City (2000), were considered highly successful and fun events. The next AMTA conference will be held in 2002. Members can buy copies of videotapes and proceedings of past conferences, including AMTA-96 and MT Summit 1997. Please contact Debbie Becker (AMTAinfo@att.net) for prices. 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 next one, MT Summit VIII, will be held in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, on 18-22 September, 2001. 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 two previous Summits were held in San Diego, California, in 1997 and in Singapore in 1999 (click here); both 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. Recent TMI conferences were held in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1997, and in Chester, England, in 1999. 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. Newsmagazines, Catalogues, and Other Publications 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. Compendium of Translation Software All AMTA members get free access to the Compendium of Translation Software. The Compendium, edited by W. John Hutchins, is a world-wide guide to commercial MT systems, large and small, plus noncommercial projects and research under way. The 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 most recent version was released in December 2000. For more information, click here or 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: Debbie Becker AMTA Focal Point 1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Suite 300 Washington D.C. 20004 tel: 703-716-0912 fax: 703-716-0912 email: AMTAInfo@att.net 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: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberger Platz 3 D-14197 Berlin Germany tel: +49-30-82787-0 and request the Proceedings as follows: Authors: David Farwell, Laurie Gerber, Eduard Hovy Title: Machine Translation and the Information Soup ISBN: 3-540-65259-0 Series: LNAI 1529 The price is DM 106 or approx. US$50 (plus approx. US$4 for shipping) For the Proceedings of AMTA-96 and AMTA-98, please contact Debbie Becker (AMTAinfo@att.net). Special Interest Groups (SIGs): Contact with Others over Specialized Topics Free membership in any of the AMTA Special Interest Groups (SIGs). Currently there are SIGs devoted to: standards and APIs interlinguas MTranslatability evaluation of MT postediting The Interlingua SIG held lively workshops at the AMTA 2000, AMTA-98, and ANLP/NAACL-2000 conferences. The Postediting SIG held a meeting at the ANLP/NAACL-2000 conference in Seattle in April 2000. The MTranslatability SIG was formed at the AMTA-2000 conference in Mexico and welcomes new members. See the MTranslatability tutorial. Click here for more information. Please contact Eduard Hovy hovy@isi.edu if you wish to join any of the SIGs. 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 IAMT (International) activities and officers, EAMT (European) activities and officers, AAMT (Asian-Pacific) activities and officers. Disclaimer 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.