Conferences on Machine Translation (MT)

available on the Machine Translation Archive

All proceedings of the following conferences and workshops are included in the archive. 

[For a list of conferences from which papers have been included selectively until 2014 click here]

Pre-1980 conferences:

1952. Conference on Mechanical Translation, 17-20 June 1952, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [Table of contents]

1956. International Conference on Mechanical Translation, 20 October 1956, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [selected papers]

1957. Research in Machine Translation, 12-13 April 1957, Georgetown University. [Table of contents]

1960. National Symposium on Machine Translation, 2-5 February 1960, Los Angeles, Ca., USA; ed. H.P.Edmundson (Englewood Cliff, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1961) [Table of contents]

1960. Federally sponsored machine translation workers, 18-22 July 1960, Princeton, New Jersey. [Summary of the proceedings]

1961. International Conference on Machine Translation and Applied Language Analysis, 5-8 September 1961, National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, Middlesex, UK. 2 vols. (London: HMSO, 1962). [Table of contents]

1962. Automatic translation of languages, NATO Summer School, Venice, July 1962. (Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1966). [Table of contents]

1963. Annual meeting of the Association for Machine Translation and Computational Linguistics, 25-26 August 1963, Denver, Colorado. [Table of contents, abstracts published in Mechanical Translation]

1971. Feasibility Study on Fully Automatic High Quality Translation, University of Texas, 1970-1971. [Table of contents]

1976. FBIS [Foreign Broadcast Information Service] Seminar on Machine Translation, 8-9 March 1976, Rosslyn, Virginia. [Table of contents]

MT Summit conferences (of the International Association for Machine Translation)

I. 1987, September 17-19, Hakone, Japan. Table of contents

II. 1989, August 16-18, München, Germany. Table of contents

III. 1991, July 1-4, Washington, DC, USA. Table of contents

IV. 1993, July 19-22, Kobe, Japan. “International cooperation for global communication” Table of contents

V. 1995, July 10-13, Luxembourg. Table of contents

VI. 1997, October 29 – November 1, San Diego, California, USA. “Machine translation: past, present, future” Table of contents. Also AMTA/SIG-IL workshop on interlinguas.

VII. 1999, September 13-17, Singapore. “MT in the great translation era”. Table of contents

VIII. 2001, September 18-22, Santiago de Compostela, Spain. “Machine translation in the information age” Table of contents: papers presented at main conference and workshops

IX. 2003, September 23-27, New Orleans, USA. Table of contents: papers presented at main conference and workshops

X, 2005, September 13-15, Phuket, Thailand. Table of contents: papers presented at main conference and workshops

XI, 2007, September 10-14, Copenhagen, Denmark. Table of contents: papers presented at main conference and workshops

XII. 2009, August 26-30, Ottawa, Canada. Table of contents: main conference and workshops

XIII. 2011, September 19-23, Xiamen, China. Table of contents

XIV. 2013, September 2-6, Nice, France. Table of contents

XV. 2015, October 30 – November 3, Miami, Florida, USA. Table of contents

Conferences of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA)

1st, 1994, October 5-8, Columbia, Maryland, USA. “Technology partnerships for crossing the language barrier” Table of contents

2nd, 1996, October 2-5, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. “Expanding MT horizons” Table of contents

3rd, 1998, October 28-31, Langhorne, Pennsylvania, USA. “Machine translation and the information soup” Table of contents

4th, 2000, October 10-14, Cuernavaca, Mexico. “Envisioning machine translation in the information future” Table of contents

5th, 2002, October 8-12, Tiburon, California, USA. “Machine translation: from research to real users” Table of contents

6th, 2004, September 28 - October 2, Washington, DC, USA. “Machine translation: from real users to research” Table of contents

7th, 2006, August 8-12, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. “Visions for the future of machine translation” Table of contents

2007, April 26, Rochester, New York, USA. [Workshop at NAACL-HLT 2007] “Syntax and structure in statistical translation” Table of contents

8th, 2008, October 21-25, Waikiki, Hawai’i, USA. “MT at work” Table of contents

9th, 2010, October 31-November 4, Denver, Colorado, USA. Table of contents

10th, 2012, October 28-November 1, San Diego, California, USA. Table of contents

11th, 2014, October 22-26, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Table of contents

Workshops and conferences of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT)

1993, April 26-28, Heidelberg, Germany. “Machine translation and the lexicon” (Berlin: Springer, 1995) Abstracts

1994, September 14-16, Hildesheim, Germany. “Machine translation and translation theory” (Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1997) Contents

1996, August 29-30, Technische Universität, Vienna, Austria. {held in conjunction with TKE'96} Complete proceedings [PDF, 701KB]

1997, May 21-22, Center for Sprogteknologi, Copenhagen, Denmark. “Language technology in your organization?” Table of contents

1998, April 2-3, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. “Translation technology: integration in the workflow environment” Complete proceedings [PDF, 665KB]

1999, April 22-23, Prague, Czech Republic. “EU and the new languages” Table of contents. [Abstracts only, PDF, 234KB]

2000, May 11-12, Ljubljana, Slovenia. “Harvesting existing resources” Table of contents

2002, November 14-15, UMIST, Manchester, UK. “Teaching machine translation” Table of contents

2003, April 13, Budapest, Hungary. [Workshop at EACL-03.] “Improving MT through other language technology tools: resources and tools for building MT” Table of contents

2003, May 15-17, Dublin City University, Ireland. “Controlled language translation”: Joint conference combining the 7th international Workshop of the European Association for Machine Translation and the 4th Controlled Language Applications Workshop. Table of contents

2004, April 26-27, Malta. “Broadening horizons of machine translation and its applications” Table of contents

2005, May 30-31, Budapest, Hungary. “Practical applications of machine translation”. Table of contents

2006, June 19-20, Oslo, Norway. Table of contents

2008, September 22-23, Hamburg, Germany, “Hybrid MT methods in practice”. Table of contents

2009, May 14-15, Barcelona, Spain. Table of contents

2010, May 27-28, Saint Raphaël, France. Table of contents

2011, May 30-31, Leuven, Belgium. Table of contents

2012, May 28-30, Trento, Italy. Table of contents

2014, June 16-18, Dubrovnik, Croatia. Table of contents

2015, May 11-13, Antalya, Turkey. Table of contents

2016, May 30 – June 1, Riga, Latvia. Table of contents

British Computer Society: conferences

1984, February 13-15, Cranfield University, UK. International Conference on Methodology and Techniques of Machine Translation. Table of contents

1994, November 12-14, Cranfield University, UK. Machine Translation: Ten Years On. Second international conference .. Table of contents

2000, November 20-22, University of Exeter, UK. MT2000: Machine Translation and Multilingual Applications in the New Millenium. International Conference... Table of contents

2006, October 23, London, UK. The Challenge of Arabic for NLP/MT. International Conference... Table of contents

International Workshop on Controlled Language Applications (CLAW)

4th, 2003, May 15-17, Dublin City University, Ireland. “Controlled language translation”: Joint conference combining the 7th international Workshop of the European Association for Machine Translation and the 4th Controlled Language Applications Workshop. Table of contents

5th, 2006, August 12, Cambridge, Mass. [as part of the 7th conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, AMTA-2006] Contents of workshop

International Workshop on Example-Based Machine Translation

1. 2001, September 18, Santiago de Compostela, Spain [at MT Summit VIII]. Table of contents

2. 2005, September 16, Phuket, Tailand [at MT Summit X]. Table of contents

3. 2009, November 12-13, Dublin, Ireland. Table of contents

International Workshop on Free/Open-Source Rule-Based Machine Translation

1st, 2009, November 2-3, Alacant, Spain. Table of contents

2nd, 2011, January 20-21, Barcelona, Spain. Table of contents

3rd, 2012, June 13-15, Gothenburg, Sweden. Table of contents

International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT)

2004, September 30 – October 1, Kyoto, Japan. [Held as ICSLP Satellite Workshop of Interspeech 2004] Table of contents

2005, October 24-25, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Table of contents

2006, November 27-28, Kyoto, Japan. Table of contents

2007, October 15-16, Trento, Italy. Table of contents

2008, October 20-21, Waikiki, Hawai’i, USA. Table of contents

2009, December 1-2, Tokyo, Japan. Table of contents

2010, December 2-3, Paris, France. Table of contents

2011, December 8-9, San Francisco, California, USA. Table of contents

2012, December 6-7, Hong Kong. Table of contents

2013, December 5-6, Heidelberg, Germany. Table of contents

2014, December 4-5, Lake Tahoe, California, USA. Table of contents

2015. December 3-4, Da Nang, Vietnam. Table of contents

Machine Translation Marathon

1st, 2007, April 16-20, Edinburgh, UK. Table of contents

2nd, 2008, May 12-17, Berlin, Germany. Table of contents

3rd, 2009, January 26-30, Prague, Czech Republic. Table of contents

4th, 2010, January 25-30, Dublin, Ireland. Table of contents

5th, 2010, September 13-18, Le Mans, France. Table of contents

6th, 2011, September 5-10, Trento, Italy. Table of contents

7th, 2012, September 3-8, Edinburgh, UK. Table of contents

META-FORUM

1st, 2010, November 17-18, Brussels, Belgium. Table of contents

2nd, 2011, June 27-28, Budapest, Hungary. Table of contents

3rd, 2012, June 19-20, Brussels, Belgium. Summary of proceedings

Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation (SSST)

[1st], 2007, April 26, held at NAACL-HLT, 2007, workshop on “Syntax and structure in statistical translation” Table of contents

2nd, 2008, June 20, Columbus, Ohio, held at ACL 2008 HLT, second workshop on “Syntax and structure in statistical translation” (SSST-2) Table of contents

3rd, 2009, June 5, Boulder, Colorada, held at NAACL-HLT 2009, third workshop on Syntax and structure in statistical translation (SSST-3). Table of contents

4th, 2010, August 28, Beijing, China, held at Coling 2010, fourth workshop on Syntax and structure in statistical translation (SSST-4). Table of contents

5th, 2011, June 23, Portland, Oregon, USA, held at ACL-HLT 2011, fifth workshop on Syntax and structure in statistical translation (SSST-5). Table of contents

6th, 2012, July 12-13, Jeju, Korea, held at ACL 2012, sixth workshop on Syntax and structure in statistical translation (SSST-6). Table of contents

7th, 2013, June 13, Atlanta, Georgia, held at NAACL-HLT 2013 , seventh workshop on Syntax and structure in statistical translation (SSST-7). Table of contents

8th, 2014, October 25, Doha, Qatar, eighth workshop on Syntax and structure in statistical translation (SSST-8). Table of contents

Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation (TMI)

1st, TMI-85, August 14-16, 1985, Hamilton, NY, USA. Table of contents

2nd, TMI-88, June 12-14, 1988, Pittsburgh, USA. Table of contents

3rd, TMI-90, June 11-13, 1990, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA. Table of contents

4th, TMI-92, June 25-27, 1992, Montréal, Canada. “Empiricist versus rationalist methods in MT” Table of contents

5th, TMI-93, July 14-16, 1993, Kyoto, Japan. “MT in the next generation” Table of contents

6th: TMI-95, July 5-7, 1995, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium Table of contents

7th: TMI-97, July 23-25, 1997, St John’s College, Santa Fe, New Mexico USA. Table of contents

8th: TMI-99, August 23-25, 1999, University College, Chester, England. Table of contents

9th, TMI-2002, March 13-17, 2002, Keihanna, Japan. Table of contents

10th, TMI-2004, October 4-6, 2004, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Table of contents

11th, TMI-2007, September 7-9, 2007, Skövde, Sweden. Table of contents

Translating and the Computer: conferences organized by Aslib 1978-2013, and by AsLing 2014

[1] 1978, November 14, London. “Translating and the computer”. Table of contents

[2] 1980, November 20, London. “Machine aids for translators”. Table of contents [published in: Aslib Proceedings 33 (7/8), July/August 1981.]

[3] 1981, November 5-6, London. “Practical experience of machine translation”. Table of contents

4, 1982, November 11-12, London. “Term banks for tomorrow’s world: Translating and the Computer 4”. Table of contents

5, 1983, November 10-11, London. “Tools for the trade: Translating and the Computer 5”. Table of contents

6. 1984, November 20-21, London. “Translation and communication”, ed. Catriona Picken. (London: Aslib, 1985) Table of contents

7. 1985, November 14-15, London. “Translating and the computer 7”, ed.Catriona Picken. (London: Aslib, 1986) Table of contents

8. 1986, November 13-14, London. “Translating and the computer 8: a profession on the move”, ed.Catriona Picken (London: Aslib, 1987) Table of contents

9. 1987, November 12-13, London. “Translating and the computer 9: potential and practice”, ed.Catriona Picken (London: Aslib, 1988) Table of contents

10. 1988, November 10-11, London. “Translating and the computer 10: the translation environment 10 years on”, ed.Pamela Mayorcas (London: Aslib, 1990) Table of contents

11. 1989, November 16-17, London. “Translating and the computer 11: preparing for the next decade”, ed. Catriona Picken (London: Aslib, 1990) Table of contents

12. 1990, November 8-9, London. “Translating and the computer 12: applying technology to the translation process”, ed. Catriona Picken (London: Aslib, 1991) Table of contents

13. 1991, November 28-29, London. “Translating and the computer 13: the theory and practice of machine translation – a marriage of convenience?” (London: Aslib, 1992). Table of contents

14. 1992, November 10-11, London. “Translating and the computer 14: quality standards and the implementation of technology in translation” (London: Aslib, 1992) Table of contents

15. 1993, November 18-19, London. “Machine translation today: Translating and the computer 15” (London: Aslib, 1993) Table of contents

16. 1994, November 10-11, London. “Translating and the computer 16” (London: Aslib, 1994) Table of contents

17. 1995, November 9-10, London. “Translating and the computer 17” (London: Aslib, 1995) Table of contents

18. 1996, November 14-15, London. “Translating and the computer 18” (London: Aslib, 1996) Table of contents

19. 1997, November 13-14, London. “Translating and the computer 19” (London: Aslib, 1997) Table of contents

20. 1998, November 12-13, London. “Translating and the Computer 20” (London: Aslib, 1998) Table of contents

21. 1999, November 10-11, London. “Translating and the Computer 21” (London: Aslib, 1999) Table of contents

22. 2000, November 16-17, London. “Translating and the Computer 22” (London: Aslib, 2000) Table of contents

23. 2001, November 29-30, London. “Translating and the Computer 23” (London: Aslib, 2001) Table of contents

24. 2002, November 21-22, London. “Translating and the Computer 24” (London: Aslib, 2002) Table of contents

25. 2003, November 20-21, London. “Translating and the Computer 25” (London: Aslib, 2003) Table of contents

26. 2004, November 18-19, London. “Translating and the Computer 26” (London: Aslib, 2004) Table of contents

27. 2005, November 24-25, London. “Translating and the Computer 27” (London: Aslib, 2005) Table of contents

28. 2006, November 16-17, London. “Translating and the Computer 28” (London: Aslib, 2006) Table of contents

29. 2007, November 29-30, London. “Translating and the Computer 29” (London: Aslib, 2007) Table of contents

30. 2008, November 27-28, London. “Translating and the Computer 30” (London: Aslib, 2008) Table of contents

31. 2009, November 19-20, London. “Translating and the Computer 31” (London: Aslib, 2009) Table of contents

32. 2010, November 18-19, London. “Translating and the Computer 32” (London: Aslib, 2010) Table of contents

33. 2011, November 17-18, London. “Translating and the Computer 33” (London: Aslib, 2011) Table of contents

34. 2012, November 29-30, London. “Translating and the Computer 34” (London: Aslib, 2012) Table of contents

35. 2013, November 28-29, London. “Translating and the Computer 35” (London: Aslib, 2013) Table of contents

36. 2014, November 27-28, London. “Translating and the Computer 36” (AsLing, 2014) Table of contents

37. 2015, November 26-27, London. “Translating and the Computer 37” (AsLing, 2015) Table of contents

38. 2016, November 17-18, London. “Translating and the Computer 38” (AsLing, 2016) Table of contents

Translingual Europe

2009, May 13-14, Prague,Czech Republic. Table of contents

2010, June 7, Berlin, Germany. Table of contents

Workshops on Statistical Machine Translation (WMT)

[1st], 2006, June 8-9, held at: HLT-NAACL 2006, Workshop on Statistical machine translation Table of contents

2nd, 2007, June 23, held at: ACL 2007, second Workshop on Statistical machine translation. Table of contents

3rd, 2008, June 19, held at: ACL 2008 HLT, third Workshop on Statistical machine translation. Table of contents

4th, 2009, March 30-31, held at: EACL 2009, fourth Workshop on Statistical machine translation. Table of contents

5th, 2010, July 15-16, held at: ACL 2010, Joint fifth Workshop on Statistical machine translation and MetricsMATR. Table of contents

6th, 2011, July 30-31, held at EMNLP 2011, sixth Workshop on Statistical machine translation. Table of contents

7th, 2012, June 7-8, Montréal, Canada, seventh Workshop on Statistical machine translation. Table of contents

8th, 2013, August 8-9, Sofia, Bulgaria, eighth Workshop on Statistical machine translation. Table of contents

9th, 2014, June 26-27, Baltimore, Maryland, ninth Workshop on Statistical machine translation. Table of contents

Other conferences and workshops

1985. International Workshop on Computer Aided Translation, 1985 March 16-17, Riyadh. Table of contents

1986. World Systran Conference, 1986, February 11-14, Luxembourg. Table of contents

1986. IAI-MT86, 1986, August 20-22, Dudweiler, West Germany Table of contents

1988. New Directions in Machine Translation, 1988, August 18-19, Budapest, Hungary. Table of contents.

1989. International Forum for Translation Technology “Harmonizing Human Beings and Computers in Translation, 1989 April 26-28, Oiso Prince Hotel. Program

1990. Workshop on Machine Translation, 1990, July 2-3, UMIST, UK. Table of contents

1991. Evaluators’ Forum, 1991, April 21-24, Les Rasses, Switzerland Table of contents

1992. International Workshop on Fundamental Research for the Future Generation of Natural Language Processing, 1992, July 30-31, Manchester, UK. Table of contents

1992. MT Evaluation, 1992, November 2-3, San Diego, California, USA. Table of contents

1994. ARPA Workshop on Machine Translation, 1994, March 17-18, Vienna, Virginia, USA. Table of contents

1997. Spoken Language Translation, 1997, July 11, Madrid, Spain. Table of contents

2001. MT Eval Workshop, 2001 April 19-24, ISSCO, Geneva, Switzerland. Table of contents

2007. METIS Workshop, 2007, January 11, Leuven, Belgium “New approaches to machine translation” Table of contents

2008. MATMT workshop, 2008, February 14, Donostia-San Sebastian “Mixing approaches to machine translation” Table of contents

2009. Statistical Multilingual Analysis for Retrieval and Translation, 2009, May 13, Barcelona, Spain. Table of contents

2010. Joint EM+/CNGL workshop, 2010, November 4, Denver, Colorado, USA “Bringing MT to the user: research on integrating MT in the translation industry” Table of contents

2011. Machine Translation and Morphologically Rich Languages, 2011, January 23-27, Haifa, Israel. Table of contents

2011. International Workshop on Using Linguistic Information for Hybrid Machine Translation, 2011, November 18-19, Barcelona, Spain. Table of contents

2012. Crosslingual Language Technology in service of an integrated multilingual Europe, 2012, May 4-5, Hamburg, Germany. Abstracts

Workshops on MT held during other conferences

Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) conferences

ACL-EACL 1997, July 11, workshop on “Spoken Language Translation”. Table of contents

ACL-EACL, 2001, July 7, workshop "Data-driven machine translation" Table of contents

ACL, 2002, workshop on "Speech-to-speech translation" Table of contents

ACL, 2005, June 29-30, workshop on “Building and Using Parallel Texts – Data-driven machine translation and beyond” Table of contents

ACL, 2007, June 23, second workshop on “Statistical machine translation”. Table of contents

ACL 2008 HLT, third workshop on “Statistical machine translation”. Table of contents

ACL 2008 HLT, second workshop on “Syntax and structure in statistical translation” Table of contents

ACL 2009, workshop on "Named Entities: Shared task on transliteration" Table of contents

ACL 2010, July 15-16, fifth workshop on “Statistical machine translation”. Table of contents

ACL 2013, August 8, sixth workshop on “Building and using comparable corpora”. Table of contents

North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) conferences

ANLP-NAACL, 2000 workshop May 4 "Embedded machine translation systems" Table of contents

NAACL-ANLP, 2000 workshop May “Applied interlinguas: practical applications of interlingual approaches to NLP” Table of contents

HLT-NAACL, 2003 workshop May 31 "Building and using parallel texts: data driven machine translation and beyond" Table of contents

HLT-NAACL, 2006 workshop June 9 “Medical speech translation” Table of contents

HLT-NAACL, 2006 workshop June 8-9 “Statistical machine translation” Table of contents

NAACL-HLT, 2007, workshop April 26 “Syntax and structure in statistical translation” Table of contents

NAACL-HLT 2009, workshop June 5 Syntax and structure in statistical translation (SSST-3). Table of contents

Computational Linguistics (Coling) conferences.

Coling 2002, September 1: workshop on "Machine translation in Asia" Table of contents

Coling 2012, December: workshop on “Reordering for statistical machine translation” Table of contents

Coling 2012, December: second workshop on “Applying machine learning techniques to optimize the division of labour in hybrid MT (ML4HMT)” Table of contents

European Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)

13th, 2012 April 23-24, Avignon, France: ESIRMT-HyTra Workshop Table of contents

European Summer School on Logic, Linguistics and Information (ESSLLI)

10th, 1998 August 24-28, Saarbrücken: Workshop on machine translation Table of contents

Human Language Technology (HLT) conferences.

HLT-NAACL, 2003 workshop May 31 "Building and using parallel texts: data driven machine translation and beyond" Table of contents

HLT-NAACL, 2006 workshop June 9 “Medical speech translation” Table of contents

HLT-NAACL, 2006 workshop June 8-9 “Statistical machine translation” Table of contents

NAACL-HLT, 2007, workshop April 26 “Syntax and structure in statistical translation” Table of contents

ACL 2008 HLT, third workshop “Statistical machine translation”. Table of contents

ACL 2008 HLT, second workshop “Syntax and structure in statistical translation” Table of contents

NAACL-HLT 2009, third workshop June 5 Syntax and structure in statistical translation (SSST-3). Table of contents

Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC) conferences

LREC, 2000, workshop May 29 “Evaluation of machine translation” Table of contents

LREC, 2002, workshop May 27 “Machine Translation Evaluation: human evaluators meet automated metrics” Complete proceedings [PDF, 249KB]

LREC, 2002, workshop May 27 “First international workshop on UNL, other interlinguas and their applications” Complete proceedings [PDF, 923KB]

LREC, 2004, workshop May 25 “The utility of parallel and comparable corpora” Complete proceedings [PDF, 2226KB]

LREC, 2006 May 23, 5th SALTMIL Workshop on Minority Languages: “Strategies for developing machine translation for minority languages” Complete proceedings [PDF, 5391KB]

LREC, 2012 May 26 “The fifth workshop on building and using comparable corpora: language resources for machine translation in less-resourced languages and domains” Table of contents

LREC, 2014 May 27 “Seventh workshop on building and using comparable corpora” Table of contents

Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP) conferences

RANLP, 2005: International Workshop: Modern approaches in translation technologies, Borovets, Bulgaria, 24 September 2005. Table of contents