Save the Date for the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas Conference

Event Notification Type: 
Other
Abbreviated Title: 
AMTA 2018
Location: 
A-Loft Boston Seaport Hotel
Saturday, 17 March 2018 to Wednesday, 21 March 2018
State: 
Massachusetts
Country: 
USA
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City: 
Boston
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The Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA 2018) Conference will be taking place in Boston, at A-Loft Boston Seaport Hotel on March 17 - March 21. This year we will be collocating with GALA (Globalization and Localization Association) conference, sharing workshops and tutorials on March 17th. The conference schedule will be as follows:
 
March 17th - Workshops and Tutorials
March 18th, 19th and 20th - Main Conference
March 21st - more Workshops and Tutorials.
 
The conference will be featuring three tracks - Research, Commercial and Government, each dedicated to a respective area in machine translation research, commercial application and government use. There will also be invited talks and panels. Topics covered will include the latest advancements in machine translation, such as deep learning and neural MT, lower resourced languages, user-interfaces for MT; MT evaluation approaches; MT in commercial settings, integration MT into localization lifecycles, MT in chat, support and other “live” applications, MT and “noisy” content types; MT as a translator and analyst tool and many more. Call for papers will be announced shortly. As always, there will be discounted admission prices for student attendees.