AMTA 2020

Name: AMTA 2020
Start: 2020-10-05
End: 2020-10-09
Location: Online

Conference of the Association of Machine Translation in the Americas

Location

Online

Schedule

Day 1


12:00	Opening Reception Networking Area

Day 2


8:00	Tutorial: Quick-Start Guide to Understanding and Working with Machine Translation Adam Wooten
	Tutorial: NMT Domain Adaptation Techniques Yasmin Moslem
8:00	Workshop: Virtual Workshop on the Impact of Machine Translation (iMpacT 2020) Sharon O'Brien, Michel Simard
10:30	Workshop: Virtual Workshop on the Impact of Machine Translation (iMpacT 2020) (continued) Sharon O'Brien, Michel Simard
12:00	Tutorial: Human Parity Demystified - How Models and Data Achieve Improved Translation Quality Christian Federmann
	Workshop: 1st Workshop on Post-Editing in Modern-Day Translation (PEMDT1) John E. Ortega, Marcello Federico, Constantin Orasan, Maja Popovic

Day 3


8:00	Opening
8:10	Keynote: MT Developments in the European Union Andy Way
8:50	🕑
9:00	Commercial User Track: Operationalizing MT quality estimation Miklos Urban, Maribel Rodríguez Molina
	Research Track: A New Approach to Parameter-Sharing in Machine Translation Benyamin Ahmadnia, Bonnie Dorr
9:30	Commercial User Track: In search of an acceptability/unacceptability threshold in machine translation post-editing automated metrics Lucía Guerrero
	Research Track: Investigation of Transformer-based Latent Attention Models for Neural Machine Translation Parnia Bahar, Nikita Makarov, Hermann Ney
10:00	Commercial User Track: A Survey of Qualitative Error Analysis for Neural Machine Translation Systems Denise Díaz, James Cross, Vishrav Chaudhary, Ahmed Kishky, Philipp Koehn
	Research Track: Machine Translation with Unsupervised Length-Constraints Jan Niehues
10:30	Commercial User Track: COMET - Deploying a New State-of-the-art MT Evaluation Metric in Production Craig Stewart, Ricardo Rei, Catarina Farinha, Alon Lavie
	Research Track: Constraining the Transformer NMT Model with Heuristic Grid Beam Search Guodong Xie, Andy Way
11:00	Demo 1 - Intento
11:30	Demo 2 - Systran
12:00	Keynote: Faithful NLG in an era of Ethical Awareness: Opportunities for MT Mona Diab
12:50	🕑
13:00	Commercial User Track: Scaling up automatic translation for software: reduction of post-editing volume with well-defined customer impact Dag Schmidtke
	Research Track: Machine Translation System Selection from Bandit Feedback Jason Naradowsky, Xuan Zhang, Kevin Duh
13:30	Commercial User Track: Auto MT Quality Prediction Solution and Best Practice Martin Lei Xiao, York Jin
	Research Track: Generative latent neural models for automatic word alignment Anh Khoa Ngo Ho, Franc ̧ois Yvon
14:00	Commercial User Track: A language comparison of human evaluation & quality estimation Silvio Picinini, Adam Bittlingmayer
	Research Track: The Impact of Indirect Machine Translation on Sentiment Classification Alberto Poncelas, Pintu Lohar, James Hadley, Andy Way
14:30	Commercial User Track: Machine translation quality across demographic dialectal variation in Social Media Adithya Renduchintala, Dmitriy Genzel
	Research Track: Towards Handling Compositionality in Low-Resource Bilingual Word Induction Viktor Hangya, Alexander Fraser
15:00	🕑
15:10	Student Mentoring Session

Day 4


8:00	Opening
8:10	Keynote: Factor 1000: Better MT, more content, and what we can do with it Chris Wendt
8:50	🕑
9:00	Commercial User Track: Making the business case for adopting MT Rodrigo Cristina
	Research Track: The OpenNMT Neural Machine Translation Toolkit: 2020 Edition Guillaume Klein, François Hernandez, Vincent Nguyen, Jean Senellart
9:30	Commercial User Track: Flexible Customization of a Single Neural Machine Translation System with Multi-dimensional Metadata Inputs Evgeny Matusov, Patrick Wilken, Christian Herold
	Research Track: The Sockeye 2 Neural Machine Translation Toolkit at AMTA 2020 Tobias Domhan, Michael Denkowski, David Vilar, Xing Niu, Felix Hieber, Kenneth Heafield
10:00	Commercial User Track: Enhance CX with Neural Machine Translation Technology Rubén Martínez-Domínguez, Matíss Rikters, Artūrs Vasiļevskis, Mārcis Pinnis, Paula Reichenberg
	Research Track: THUMT: An Open-Source Toolkit for Neural Machine Translation Zhixing Tan, Jiacheng Zhang, Xuancheng Huang, Gang Chen, Shuo Wang, Maosong Sun, Huanbo Luan, Yang Liu
10:30	Commercial User Track: Machine Translation Hype, Crash-Tested by Translation Students Jon Ritzdorf
	Research Track: Panel on Open Source NMT Toolkit Development Moderator: Matt Post
11:00	Demo 3 - Amazon
11:30	Demo 4 - XTM
12:00	Keynote: Navigating Change: Keys to implementing language technology in government Danielle Silverman
12:50	🕑
13:00	Commercial User Track: Use MT to Simplify and Speed Up Your Alignment for TM Creation Judith Klein
	Research Track: Successful Tech Transfer of MT Research in Government Kathy Baker
13:30	Commercial User Track: Selection of MT System in Translation Workflows Aleš Tamchyna
	Research Track: Plugging into Trados: Augmenting Translation in the Enclave Corey Miller, Chiara Higgins, Paige Havens, Steven Van Guilder, Rodney Morris, Danielle Silverman
	Commercial User Track: Beyond MT: Opening Doors for an NLP Pipeline Alex Yanishevsky
	Research Track: PEMT for the Public Sector: Discovery, Scoping, and Delivery Konstantine Boukhvalov, Eileen Block
	Commercial User Track: Building Multi-Purpose MT Portfolio Konstantin Savenkov
15:00	🕑
15:10	AMTA Business Meeting

Day 5


7:50	Opening
8:00	Keynote: Using language technology to enable two-way communication in humanitarian assistance Eric Paquin
8:50	🕑
9:00	Government Track: A Tale of Eight Countries or the EU Council Presidency Translator in Retrospect (slides) Mārcis Pinnis, Toms Bergmanis, Kristīne Metuzāle, Valters Šics, Artūrs Vasiļevskis, Andrejs Vasiļjevs
9:30	Government Track: Why is it so Hard to Develop Comparable Translation Evaluations and How Can Standards Help? Jennifer DeCamp
	Commercial User Track: Simultaneous Speech Translation in Google Translate Jeff Pitman
10:30	Government Track: Using Contemporary US Government Data to Train Custom MT for COVID-19 Achim Ruopp
	Commercial User Track: Understanding Challenges to Enterprise Machine Translation Adoption Bart Mączyński
11:00	Demo 5 - Facebook
11:30	Demo 5 - CustomMT
12:00	Keynote: Research stories from Google Translate's Transcribe Mode Colin Cherry
12:50	🕑
	Commercial User Track: Lexically Constrained Decoding for Sequence Generation Tony O'Dowd
	Research Track: Dynamic Masking for Improved Stability in Online Spoken Language Translation Yuekun Yao, Barry Haddow
	Commercial User Track: Building Salesforce Neural Machine Translation System Kazuma Hashimoto, Raffaella Buschiazzo, Caiming Xiong, Teresa Marxhall
	Research Track: On Target Segmentation for Direct Speech Translation Mattia A. Di Gangi, Marco Gaido, Matteo Negri, Marco Turchi
	Commercial User Track: Interactive Adaptation of Neural MT on Commercial Datasets Patrick Simianer, Joern Wuebker, John DeNero
	Research Track: Domain Robustness in Neural Machine Translation Mathias Müller, Annette Rios, Rico Sennrich
	Commercial User Track: Enabling New MT Post-Editing Scenarios with Continuous Localization Igor Afanasyev
	Research Track: Low-Resource NMT: an Empirical Study on the Effect of Rich Morphological Word Segmentation on Inuktitut Tan Ngoc, Fatiha Sadat

The 14th biennial conference of the Association of Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA 2020) was hosted online from 5 October to 9 October, 2020.