Call for Tutorial Proposals

AMTA conference tutorials introduce our members to exciting innovations, to practical skills, or to different disciplinary perspectives. MT is a kaleidoscopic universe of ideas, concerns, and capabilities that requires the efforts and talents of professionals in multiple disciplines. The goal of cross-language meaning transfer is shared among translators, technologists, and researchers of all stripes -- but we often need cross-training to improve communication. Tutorials at AMTA provide background for the main conference sessions, and enhance our members' effectiveness by offering a means for understanding issues, solutions, and perspectives of multiple approaches and different disciplines.

Tutorials will be held on Wednesday, August 26. Tutorials are half-day (3 hour) instructional sessions.

Topics

We ask that tutorials be of interest to a broad audience and particularly invite:

• Tutorials that introduce new or prospective commercial users to machine translation technology, evaluation, and use, including fundamental vocabulary and concepts
• Tutorials that introduce tool developers and researchers to the current landscape of translation technology and standards that machine translation needs to interoperate with in a production environment
• Tutorials that introduce tool developers and researchers to human translation, including the way translators actually work, professional standards, training, and technology adoption trends.
• Technical and scientific tutorials on high-impact issues, approaches, and techniques
• Tutorials which explain a recent development in the field or provide technical guidance
• Introductory, overview, or survey tutorials on high-interest, leading-edge R&D topics

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

What to submit

Submissions should include the title and a 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 a description of the professional expertise of the tutorial presenters.

How to submit

Send submissions to Reggie Hobbs (hobbs@arl.army.mil) and Jennifer DeCamp (jdecamp@mitre.org), with a copy to the main conference email address (summitxii@amtaweb.org). We will evaluate Tutorial proposals as soon as they are submitted. The last day for submissions is March 6, 2009.

Important Dates

Last updated: Thu Jan 15 14:34:32 PST 2009