AMTA 2020

Event

Name	Value
isA	Event
Acronym	AMTA 2020
Title	14th biennial conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas
Start date	2020/09/08
End date	2020/09/12
Homepage	https://amtaweb.org/
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Topics

Topics of interest may include, but are not limited to, the following:

* Making the business case for adopting MT to drive business requirements, expand markets and engage with customers.
* Practical applications for using raw (aka stock) MT no human intervention, such as post editing.
* Novel approaches to using MT in a commercial environment.
* Advances in adaptive and interactive MT technologies.
* Process and criteria for migrating to Neural MT from other systems, such as Statistical MT.
* Using MT for leveraging between similar languages, such as Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Russian and Ukrainian, Spanish and     Catalan; and language variants such as US to UK English, Brazilian to Continental Portuguese.  
* MT quality and confidence scoring, tools, and metrics that support business KPIs.
* Productivity measures and quality frameworks that enhance business processes and translation workflows.
* TM cleanup and corpus preparation techniques for engine training.
* Approaches and challenges to building your own MT engines.
* Quality vs. quantity and fit for purpose when choosing corpora for customizing engines (e.g. Translation Memories, terminology/glossaries, Do Not Translate lists).
* MT Post Editing challenges.
* New business applications for MT; for example, speech to speech, speech to text, videos, search and indexing applications, emergency response and disaster management, social media, chatbots.
* API challenges such as tag handling and/or reordering.
* Open Standards for machine translation
* Overview and comparisons of open source MT tools and services.
* Artificial Intelligence approaches to machine translation including Natural Language Processing or Machine Learning applications to enhance the translation process (e.g. information extraction and retrieval, text categorization, Named Entity Recognition, POS tagging, etc.).
* Approaches and challenges to using MT for low-resource or long-tail languages.
* Advances in domain adaptation.
* Handling potentially offensive, illegal or profane language in MT output