{"id":308993,"date":"2016-10-20T09:34:12","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T16:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?post_type=msr-event&#038;p=308993"},"modified":"2025-08-06T11:59:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T18:59:02","slug":"amta-2016-microsoft-research","status":"publish","type":"msr-event","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/event\/amta-2016-microsoft-research\/","title":{"rendered":"AMTA 2016 and Microsoft Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<p><strong>Venue:<\/strong> <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/amtaweb.org\/amta-2016-in-austin-tx\/amta-2016-venue-and-accommodations\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hilton Austin<br \/>\n<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>500 E. Fourth Street<br \/>\nAustin, TX 78701<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/amtaweb.org\/amta-2016-in-austin-tx\/amta-2016-venue-and-accommodations\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><span id=\"label-external-link\" class=\"sr-only\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several Microsoft researchers were in attendance and presented at AMTA 2016 in Austin, Texas, on October 28 &#8211; November 1, 2016. You can learn more about our research presented at AMTA 2016 via the Accepted papers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"msr-url-field":"","msr-podcast-episode":"","msrModifiedDate":"","msrModifiedDateEnabled":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_classifai_error":"","msr_startdate":"2016-10-28","msr_enddate":"2016-11-01","msr_location":"Austin, TX, USA","msr_expirationdate":"","msr_event_recording_link":"","msr_event_link":"","msr_event_link_redirect":false,"msr_event_time":"","msr_hide_region":false,"msr_private_event":false,"msr_hide_image_in_river":0,"footnotes":""},"research-area":[13545],"msr-region":[197900],"msr-event-type":[197941],"msr-video-type":[],"msr-locale":[268875],"msr-program-audience":[],"msr-post-option":[],"msr-impact-theme":[],"class_list":["post-308993","msr-event","type-msr-event","status-publish","hentry","msr-research-area-human-language-technologies","msr-region-north-america","msr-event-type-conferences","msr-locale-en_us"],"msr_about":"<!-- wp:msr\/event-details {\"title\":\"AMTA 2016 and Microsoft Research\",\"backgroundColor\":\"grey\"} \/-->\n\n<!-- wp:msr\/content-tabs --><!-- wp:msr\/content-tab {\"title\":\"Overview\"} --><!-- wp:freeform --><p><strong>Venue:<\/strong> <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/amtaweb.org\/amta-2016-in-austin-tx\/amta-2016-venue-and-accommodations\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hilton Austin<br \/>\n<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>500 E. Fourth Street<br \/>\nAustin, TX 78701<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/amtaweb.org\/amta-2016-in-austin-tx\/amta-2016-venue-and-accommodations\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><span id=\"label-external-link\" class=\"sr-only\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:freeform --><!-- \/wp:msr\/content-tab --><!-- \/wp:msr\/content-tabs -->","tab-content":[{"id":0,"name":"","content":"It was our pleasure to be a part of the 12th biennial conference organized by the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas in Austin, Texas, October 28 - November 1, 2016 at the Austin Hilton Hotel.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/amtaweb.org\/amta-2016-in-austin-tx\/\" target=\"_blank\">AMTA<\/a> is the primary Machine Translation Association in North America, bringing together the research, commercial, and government communities developing and using Machine Translation (MT). Microsoft Research has been deeply involved with AMTA since inception, and was happy to sponsor the event to advance the understanding of the capabilities and techniques of deploying automatic translation, as a way to exchange ideas about the current state and the future of the MT landscape, as well as to meet important partners in the delivery of the Translator service.\r\n\r\nMicrosoft was a sponsor and delighted to have several researchers attend and present at AMTA. If you attended AMTA 2016 we hope you had a chance to chat with our researchers about the projects and opportunities at Microsoft that involve solving interesting machine translation problems for billions of users. You can learn more about our research presented at AMTA 2016 via the Accepted papers.\r\n<h2>Invited Speaker<\/h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Panel on \"MT Commercialization: Past, Present and Future\"\r\nModerator: Daniel Marcu, ISI\/USC and FairTradeTranslation\r\nPanelists: Macduff Hughes, Google; Valery Jacot, Autodesk; Dragos Stefan Munteanu, SDL plc.; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/christw\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Wendt<\/a>, Microsoft Research<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h2>Microsoft Research\u00a0attendees<\/h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/wilewis\/\" target=\"_blank\">Will Lewis<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li>Dag Schmitdtke<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Chris Wendt<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h2>Workshop<\/h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/semitic-mt.seas.gwu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Workshop on MT for Semitic Languages<\/a> | November 1\r\nOrganizers: Mona Diab, George Washington University; Houda Bouamor, Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar; Ahmed ElKholy, Microsoft; Mahmoud Ghoneim, George Washington University; Yuval Marton, Microsoft<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h2>Accepted papers<\/h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>\"MT Thresholding: Achieving a defined quality bar with a mix of human and machine translation\" by\u00a0Dag Schmidtke, Microsoft<\/li>\r\n \t<li>\"Speech translation user experience in practice\" by\u00a0Chris Wendt, Tanvi Surti, and Will Lewis, Microsoft<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>"}],"msr_startdate":"2016-10-28","msr_enddate":"2016-11-01","msr_event_time":"","msr_location":"Austin, TX, USA","msr_event_link":"","msr_event_recording_link":"","msr_startdate_formatted":"October 28, 2016","msr_register_text":"Watch now","msr_cta_link":"","msr_cta_text":"","msr_cta_bi_name":"","featured_image_thumbnail":null,"event_excerpt":"Several Microsoft researchers were in attendance and presented at AMTA 2016 in Austin, Texas, on October 28 - November 1, 2016. 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