What sessions should I attend?
I'm a systems integrator providing services to government.
| Wednesday 26-Aug – Tutorials at the UQO Campus | |
| Morning Tutorial 3 - Tools for Human Translators - State of the Practice - Established Tools and Capability Gaps |
This is a great opportunity to get familiar with the landscape of tools that government and commercial translators often use, and the data encoding/exchange standards that those tools and communities use. |
| Afternoon Tutorial 6 - Up close and personal with a Translator - How Translators Really Work |
The techniques you'll learn in this tutorial will give you a big advantage in usability development for your future applications – even if they don't involve translation! |
| Evening Networking reception at the Château Laurier |
Get a jump on networking with your customers and the people you already know. Find out what other people are going to hear tomorrow! |
| Thursday 27-Aug – Main Conference at the Château Laurier | |
| Morning 9:00 – Don't be late for the Keynotes! Keynote 1: Symantec deploys the Systran hybrid |
Symantec showcases Best Practices is using MT for large-scale localization. |
| Keynote 2:Translated.net integrates MT and crowd-sourcing into it's standard translation workflow | Translated.net builds world-class MT and translator tools in house from toolkits. |
| 11:30 – Pierre Isabelle and Roland Kuhn, our research co-chairs explain the major trends and events in MT Research | Research track presentations give a lot of detail on vary narrow subjects, this overview is a chance to get a big-picture view of what's brewing in the international research community. |
| Lunch – make a dinner date with the people you find interesting | |
| Afternoon 2:00-4:00 Government Track sessions and Commercial User session on MT Workflow |
You probably need to track any unfamiliar trends and projects in the government, but be sure to check out at least one of the commercial presentations too. |
| 4:30-6:00 Government HLT Experts and Thematic session on Translation quality and MT | If you know the government representatives already, take this opportunity to hear some approaches to monitoring and controlling quality. What you learn here could win you the next proposal! |
| You can skip the IAMT general membership meeting | |
| Friday 28-Aug – Main Conference at the Château Laurier | |
| Morning 9:00-12:00 Government program track |
You probably need to know more about African languages. And the Indian presentation will address some of the same issues governments all over have to face with less common languages. |
| 11:00-12:30 Panel Discussion: How are the new technology combinations helping users? | Listen between the lines to understand what some of the current problems are and how people are addressing them. |
| Grab a quick lunch; there's a lot to do! | |
| Afternoon Head for the Technology Showcase, which lasts all afternoon. |
See all the translation tools and products that are available. The technology showcase is only open for this one afternoon, so keep moving around the exhibits! |
| Optional 1: 2:00-5:00 TAUS Data Association roundtable Optional 2: Tools for translators |
If you are involved in government efforts to collect and manage parallel corpora, the TAUS Data Association Roundtable (Workshop 2 – separate registration fee) has a head start and a lot of relevant experience in problems of data sharing. If you support linguists, spend most of the afternoon at the Tech Showcase, and pop out for the Human Translation sessions from 4:00-5:30. Spend any spare time at the Showcase! Take advantage of the opportunity to network with technology providers and MT users. |
|
Evening 7:00 Conference banquet and IAMT Award of Honor |
The award speech will be a rare opportunity for insight on how successful careers in MT are made. |
| Saturday 29-Aug – Main Conference at the Château Laurier | |
| Morning Government and Research Track sessions |
Pick the sessions that appeal to you. Don't miss the Japan Patent Office session at 10:00 on their strategic use of MT for patent research and public access! |
| Keynote Presentations | |
| 11:00 Dan Scott director of the ODNI Foreign Language Program Office on Government use of MT | Get the official story on where MT is going! (And then try to catch him in a quiet corner for a candid discussion afterwards) |
| 11:45 Doug Jones of MIT Lincoln Labs | Are your customers tired of or baffled by BLEU scores? Doug's work brings a really fresh perspective on MT evaluation. |
| Lunch – this is your last window of opportunity for a lunch meeting during the main conference. | |
| Afternoon Government and Research Track sessions |
Touch choices! Saturday afternoon has some of the most operationally relevant research session presentations, AND some of the newest government MT projects reported. Divide and conquer with a trusted colleague and share notes over dinner. |
| End of the day – Join us for the closing session, and exchange cards with your new contacts! | |
Last updated: Tue Jul 21 23:12:23 PDT 2009