NSF is providing partial financial support for a Student Research Workshop at the AMTA-2010 conference in Denver, Colorado. The Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA) is a non-profit professional organization in the area of Machine Translation (MT) in the US and the American continent. The main mission of AMTA is to facilitate and promote the exchange of knowledge and information between the communities of researchers, developers and users of Machine Translation and related translation technologies. In its effort to foster the professional growth of the next generation of MT researchers, AMTA-2010 is featuring a Student Research Workshop, embedded as an integral part of the research program at the conference. Students at all levels of study (undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate) are invited to submit papers describing their research work. NSF is providing funding to subsidize travel, conference and accommodation expenses for up to 10 students that have been selected to present their research work at the workshop.
The AMTA-2010 Student Research Workshop will greatly facilitate professional growth for the brightest young researchers in the field of MT, in the early stages of their professional career. The workshop will contribute to the professional development of a skilled and diverse workforce in the area of Machine Translation and computational processing of natural language. MT and other language processing applications are becoming vital technologies in the global information age. Strength in these areas is crucial to American competitiveness in the global economy of the 21st century.
