This group is for people in Silicon Valley to meet to discuss machine translation topics.

Members are interested in the design, application, integration, use, testing, selection, optimization, etc. of machine translation tools and to share real world experiences.

Meetings are webcast so anyone can participate. We encourage attending in person for networking and to have interactive and high quality discussions.

Possible discussion topics, led by members and invited speakers, vendors, etc.

* Networking, Comeraderie
* Learn about tools on the market
* Selecting an MT tool, writing an RFP, testing, etc.
* MT applications, integration
* Optimizing processes using MT
* Learn what others are doing with MT
* Designing MT engines, Language issues, research topics
* Vision for MT industry
* Competitive solutions to MT, (crowd sourcing, etc)
* MT data sources (TAUS, corpus, etc.)
* Hosted MT solutions, MT cloud computing

Feel free to suggest others