The 13th Annual Meeting of the European Association for Machine Translation is being organised by Centre for Speech and Language Applications and Technologies (TALP) and will take place May 14-15 on the Campus Nord of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain.

The meetings of the European Association for Machine Translation are intended to provide a forum for researchers, commercial developers and users to exchange of ideas concerning all aspects of Machine Translation and translation-related tools and resources. The aim is to present recent research and current state of the art in the area, explore emerging R&D trends, provide information about evaluation techniques and tools and review the translation needs and the uses of translation technologies on the part of government and industry. 

This year the main theme of the conference is: "Translation among European languages, especially for languages with smaller speech communities and limited digital resources"". To address this topic, the programme features two invited speakers:

• Nicholas Ostler (Foundation for Endangered Languages)  

"The Jungle is Neutral" (see abstract)

• Lori Levin (Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University)

Adaptable, community-controlled, language technologies for language maintenance  (see abstract)

We look forward to seeing you in Barcelona.
 

Important Dates

31 Jan 2009 – Submission deadline
23 Mar 2009 – Notification to authors
3 Apr 2009 – Deadline for camera-ready copy
14-15 May 2009 – Conference