If you already use MT or are thinking of using it:
Pre-conference tutorials will give you deeper knowledge of translation technology, and will help you build (or deconstruct!) business cases for investment in MT. (Wednesday, August 26th)
An unprecedented number of case studies show how to tackle workflow and quality control in commercial deployments (Thursday, August 27th).
Meet the people who use MT every day and hear what they have to say.
The Technology Showcase brings together an array of solutions that incorporate MT for everything from high-quality multilingual publishing to high volume information analysis and triage. You'll see how people have solved problems just like yours. (Friday afternoon, August 28th)
Learn from educators, tool developers, translators, and market watchers how to get translators on board with your technology initiatives, and how to make your translators super-productive (Postediting Tutorial Wednesday afternoon, August 26th; Commercial users track sessions Friday afternoon, August 28th, and Saturday August 29th workshop "Beyond Translation Memories".
Our research program chairs, Pierre Isabelle and Roland Kuhn, will explain what.s going on in MT research in language that you can understand. (Thursday morning, August 27th)
If you do research in MT or related fields:
The research track is the highest caliber we've ever had at an AMTA conference. (You know how demanding Pierre is, right? Even he complained that they couldn.t accept all the worthy papers.) (Thursday, August 27- Saturday, August 29)
If you dream of taking your research commercial, you need to find enough real customers to support a business. The MT Summit is a unique opportunity to meet, or just listen to, a wide array of both translators and commercial and government technology users. Listen between the lines. What do they need that no one is providing yet? (Hint. it's not a higher BLEU score.) (Preconference workshops on Tools and Gaps and Up Close and Personal with a Translator Wednesday August 26th; Commercial program track and keynotes Thursday and Friday August 27th and 28th)
The IAMT Award of Honor presentation at the conference banquet will provide a rare opportunity to hear reflections on how a successful career in MT developed. Friday night, August 28th.
If you develop MT software:
The MT Summit is swarming with first-rate researchers. If they can't give you ideas about how to work better, then no one can.
More than half of the program is by and for people who use MT -- your future customers. If you can't find customers here, stop kidding yourself. Your product doesn't have a market.
