2006 Conference of the
Association for Machine Translation in the Americas
(AMTA 2006)
Boston Marriott, Cambridge, MA
http://amta2006.amtaweb.org/index.htm

CALL FOR TUTORIALS AND WORKSHOPS

Call for Tutorials

Deadline: April 24, 2006

We welcome your proposals and ideas for the Tutorial Program at AMTA
2006! Tutorials will be held on Tuesday, August 8, 2006, the day
before the main conference begins.

Tutorials at AMTA conferences are forums in which the unique
perspectives of stakeholder groups can be shared with members of the
MT community at large. Translators, translation managers,
technologists, information analysts, system developers, research
scientists and MT watchers in general come together around the
common goal of encouraging the enhancement of meaning transfer
across languages.

Participants learn how issues are being addressed. Issues might
include new media, unique data challenges, technological advances,
input degradation from character or speech recognition, the
incorporation of novel computational processes, the variety of
currently available approaches to evaluation and more. Topics are
presented in an accessible and understandable manner, one which
provides for interactive Q&A. In other words, tutorials provide
valuable information that helps attendees get more out of the
conference!

We ask that tutorials be of interest to a broad audience.

Send a title and brief description of the proposed tutorial's topic
and content, including a short outline of the presentation or
interactive activity, showing that the content can be covered in
three hours. Be sure to include technical requirements and the
professional expertise of the organizers of the tutorial.

The deadline for proposing tutorials is April 24th.


Contact: Michelle Vanni <mvanni@...>

Tutorials Solicited:
* Presentations on practical concerns of managers, technologists
and IP professionals
* Technical tutorials on high-interest, leading-edge R&D topics
* Introductory, overview and "lessons learned" tutorials


If you have an idea but are new to the process of proposing
tutorials, please contact us. We can perhaps assist you in
developing your idea.



Call for Workshops

Deadline: April 24, 2006

Proposals for Workshops at AMTA 2006 are now being solicited.

Workshops will be held on Saturday, August 12, 2006 the day after
the main conference ends.

Special interest groups looking for an opportunity to present recent
work related to MT may want to organize a workshop at AMTA 2006.

Developers, evaluators, researchers and IP specialists are engaged
in the process of understanding better the effects of specific
approaches to the refinement of sense rendering. Workshops are often
successfully organized around these approaches. The incorporation of
named-entity extraction, ontology-based semantic representation and
domain-specific dictionaries are but a few of the many possible
examples. Such workshops provide an opportunity for increasing
awareness of new work in a given approach or technique of interest.

Submissions should be made to Michelle Vanni mvanni@... by
April 24th. They should include the title of the workshop, a
proposed schedule (e.g. call for papers, recruitment of speakers),
workshop activities (papers, hand-on activities, shared tasks),
technical requirements, the expected number of participants, and
whether this is an ongoing or new workshop.

If you have an idea but are new to the process of proposing a
workshop, please contact us. We can perhaps assist you with
developing your idea.

Contact: Michelle Vanni <mvanni@...>