Conferences on Machine Translation (MT)
and related aspects of natural
language processing and computational linguistics
[* = conferences for which all papers are listed in indexes of the MT Archive]
[It is intended that all papers given at MT conferences
(listed in sections 1 and 2 below) will eventually be included in the MT
Archive]
1) Pre-1975 conferences
* Conference on Mechanical
Translation, 17-20 June
1952, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [Table
of contents]
* International Conference on Mechanical
Translation, 20 October
1956, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [selected papers published in Mechanical Translation]
National Symposium on Machine Translation, 2-5 February 1960,
International Conference
on Machine Translation and Applied Language Analysis, 5-8 September 1961, National Physical Laboratory, Teddington,
* Annual
meeting of the Association for Machine Translation and Computational
Linguistics, 25-26 August 1963,
2) Conferences wholly devoted
to MT since 1975:
2.1) MT Summit conferences (of the International Association for Machine Translation)
* I. 1987, September 17-19,
*II. 1989, August 16-18,
*III. 1991, July 1-4,
*IV. 1993, July 19-22,
* V. 1995, July 10-13,
* VI. 1997, October 29- November 1,
VII. 1999, September 13-17,
*VIII. 2001, September 18-22,
*IX. 2003, September 23-27,
*X, 2005, September 12-16,
*XI, 2007,
September 10-14,
2.2) Conferences of the Association for Machine
Translation in the
* 1st, 1994, October 5-8,
* 2nd, 1996, October 2-5,
* 3rd, 1998, October 28-31,
* 4th, 2000, October 10-14,
* 5th, 2002, October 8-12,
* 6th, 2004, September 28 - October 2,
* 7th, 2006,
August 8-12,
2.3) Workshops and conferences of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT)
1993, April 26-28,
1994, September,
* 1996, August 29-30, Technische
Universität,
* 1997, May 21-22, Center for Sprogteknologi,
* 1998, April 2-3, World Health
Organization,
* 1999, April 22-23,
* 2000, May 11-12,
* 2002, November 14-15, UMIST,
* 2003, April 13,
* 2003, May 15-17,
* 2004, April 26-27,
* 2005, May 30-31,
* 2006, June 19-20,
2.4)
Conferences on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation
(TMI)
* 1st, TMI-85, August 14-16, 1985,
* 2nd, TMI-88, June 12-14, 1988,
* 3rd, TMI-90, June 11-13, 1990,
* 4th, TMI-92,
June 25-27, 1992,
* 5th, TMI-93, July
14-16, 1993,
* 6th: TMI-95, July 5-7, 1995, Katholieke Universiteit,
* 7th: TMI-97, July 23-25, 1997, St.John’s
College,
* 8th: TMI-99, August 23-25, 1999,
* 9th, TMI-2002, March 13-17, 2002,
* 10th, TMI-2004, October 4-6, 2004,
* 11th, TMI-2007, September 7-9, 2007,
2.5) Translating and the Computer (organised by Aslib)
1. 1978, November 14,
2. 1980, November 20,
3. 1981, November 5-6,
4. 1982, November 11-12,
5. 1983, November 10-11,
6. 1984, November 20-21,
7. 1985, November 14-15,
8. 1986, November 13-14,
9. 1987, November 12-13,
10. 1988, November 10-11,
11. 1989, November 16-17,
12. 1990, November 8-9,
13. 1991, November 28-29,
14. 1992, November 10-11,
15. 1993, November 18-19,
16. 1994, November 10-11,
17. 1995, November 9-10,
18. 1996, November 14-15,
19. 1997, November 13-14,
20. 1998, November 12-13,
21. 1999, November 10-11,
22. 2000, November 16-17,
23. 2001, November 29-30,
24. 2002, November 21-22,
25. 2003, November 20-21,
26. 2004, November 18-19,
27. 2005, November 24-25,
28. 2006, November 16-17,
2.6) Conferences organised by British
Computer Society
International Conference
on Machine Translation. Cranfield Institute of Technology, February 1984. [Published
as: Kelly, Ian D.K. (ed.) Progress in machine translation: natural
language and personal computers.
* Machine Translation: Ten Years On. Second International conference
..
* MT2000: Machine
Translation and Multilingual Applications in the New Millenium.
International Conference at the
2.7) International
Workshops on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT)
* 2004, September 30 – October 1,
* 2005, October 24-25,
* 2006, November 27-28,
* 2007, October 15-16,
2.8) other MT conferences and workshops since 1975
* MATMT workshop, 2008, February 14, Donostia-San Sebastian “Mixing approaches to machine
translation” Table of contents
* METIS Workshop, 2007, January 11,
* Evaluators’ Forum, 1991, April
21-24,
* MT Evaluation, 1992, November 2-3,
3) Workshops on MT
taking place during other conferences
* ESSLLII-1998, August 24-28, Saarbrücken: Workshop on machine translation Table of contents
* 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
* LREC, 2000, workshop May 29
“Evaluation of machine translation” Table of
contents
* ACL-EACL, 2001 workshop July 7 "Data-driven machine translation" Table of contents
* ACL, 2002, workshop July 11 "Speech-to-speech translation" Table of contents
* Coling 2002,
September 1: workshop on "Machine
translation in
* 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]
* HLT-NAACL, 2003 workshop May 31 "Building and using parallel texts: data driven machine translation and beyond" Table of contents
* EACL-2003 workshop April 13 "
* LREC, 2004, workshop May 25 “The utility of parallel and
comprarable corpora” Complete proceedings [PDF, 2226KB]
* ACL, 2005, workshop June 29-30 “Building and Using Parallel Texts –
Data-driven machine translation and beyond” Table
of contents
* RANLP, 2005: International Workshop: Modern approaches in
translation technologies,
* LREC, 2006 May 23, 5th SALTMIL Workshop on Minority Languages: “Strategies for developing
machine translation for minority languages” Complete proceedings [PDF, 5391KB]
* HLT-NAACL, 2006 workshop on “Statistical machine translation” Table of contents
* HLT-NAACL, 2006 workshop June 9 “Medical speech translation” Table of contents
* NAACL-HLT, 2007, workshop April 26 “Syntax and structure in statistical translation” Table of contents
* ACL 2007, second workshop on Statistical machine
translation. Table of contents
4) Conferences on computational linguistics which
include papers on MT topics [* selected MT papers included on this site]:
4.1) Annual meetings of the Association for
Computational Linguistics (ACL)
ACL 1979-2007 available from ACL
* 20th Annual meeting of ACL, 1982, June 16-18,
* 21st Annual meeting of ACL, 1983, June
15-17, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
* 22nd Annual meeting of ACL, 1984, July 2-6,
* 23rd Annual meeting of ACL, 1985, July
8-12,
* 24th Annual meeting of ACL, 1986, June
10-13,
* 25th Annual meeting of ACL, 1987, July
6-9,
* 26th Annual meeting of ACL, 1988, June
7-10, State University of New York at
* 27th Annual meeting of ACL, 1989, June
26-29, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada [Full proceedings at ACL]
* 28th Annual meeting of ACL, 1990, June
6-9,
* 29th Annual meeting of ACL, 1991, June
18-21.
* 30th Annual meeting of ACL, 1992, June
28 – July 2,
* 31st Annual meeting of ACL, 1993, June
22-26,
* 32nd Annual meeting of ACL, 1994,
* 33rd Annual meeting of ACL, 1995,
* 34th Annual meeting of ACL, 1996,
* 35th Annual meeting of ACL, 1997 July 7-12,
Universidad National de Educación a Distancia,
* 36th Annual meeting of ACL, 1998,
* 37th Annual meeting of ACL, 1999,
* 38th Annual meeting of ACL, 2000, October
3-6, Hong Kong [Full
proceedings at ACL]
39th Annual meeting of ACL, 2001, July 6-11,
* 40th Annual meeting of ACL, 2002, July
6-13,
* 41st Annual meeting of ACL, 2003, July
7-12,
* 42nd Annual meeting of ACL, 2004, July,
* 43rd Annual meeting of ACL, 2005, June
25-30,
* 44th Annual meeting of ACL, 2006, July 17-21,
* 45th Annual meeting of ACL, 2007,
4.2) Conferences of the European Chapter of the
Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL) [*selected MT papers included on this site]
EACL 1983-2006: available from ACL
* 5th conference of EACL, 1991, April 9-11,
* 6th conference of EACL, 1993, April 21-23,
* 7th conference of EACL, 1995,
* 8th conference of EACL, 1997, July 7-12,
Universidad National de Educación a Distancia,
* 9th conference of EACL, 1999, June 8-12,
EACL,
2001, July 6-11,
* 10th conference of EACL, 2003, April,
* 11th conference of EACL, 2006, April 3-7,
4.3) Conferences of the North American Chapter of the
Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) [* selected MT papers
included]
ANLP-NAACL, 2000, April 29 - May 3, Language Technology Joint
Conference,
2nd, NAACL, 2001, June 2-7,
* HLT-NAACL, 2003,
May 27 – June 1,
* HLT-NAACL, 2004, May 1-7,
* HLT-NAACL, 2006, June,
* NAACL-HLT, 2007, April 22-27,
4.4) Conferences on Applied Natural Language Processing
(ANLP) [*selected MT papers included]
* 1st, 1983, February 1-3,
* 2nd,
1988, February 9-12,
* 3rd,
1992, March 31 – April 3,
* 4th, 1994, October 13-15,
* 5th, 1997, March 31 – April 3,
* 6th, 2000, April 29 – May 4,
4.5) Conferences on Human Language Technology (HLT) [*
* 1993, March 21-24,
* 1994, March 8-11,
* 2001, March 18-21,
* 2002, March 24-27,
* 2003, May 27 - June 1,
* 2004, May 1-7,
* 2006, June 4-9,
* 2007, April 22-27,
4.6) Computational Linguistics (Coling)
conferences [*
Coling 1965-2002: available from ACL
1st Coling, 1965,
2nd Coling, 1967,
3rd Coling, 1969,
4th Coling, 1971,
5th Coling, 1974,
6th Coling, 1976,
7th Coling, 1978,
8th Coling, 1980,
9th Coling, 1982,
* 10th Coling-ACL, 1984, July 2-6,
* 11th Coling, 1986, August 25-29,
* 12th Coling
1988,
* 13th Coling
1990,
* 14th Coling 1992,
* 15th Coling,
1994,
* 16th Coling,
1996, August 5-9,
* 17th Coling 1998,
* 18th Coling
2000, July 29 - August 6,
* 19th Coling
2002, August 26-30,
* 20th Coling
2004, August 23-27,
* 21st, Coling 2006, July
17-21,
22nd Coling 2008,
4.7) Empirical Methods in Natural Language
Processing (EMNLP) [* = selected MT papers included on this site]
* 1st, 1996, May 17-18,
* 2nd, 1997, August 1-2,
* 3rd, 1998, June 2,
* 4th, 1999, June 21-22 [held
in conjunction with workshop on Very Large Corpora],
* 5th, 2000, October [held in
conjunction with ACL 2000],
* 2001, June 2-7,
* 2002, July [held
in conjunction with ACL 2002],
* 2003, July 11-12, [held in conjuction with ACL 2003],
* 2004, July 25-26 [held in
conjunction with ACL 2004],
* 2005, October,
* 2006, July,
* 2007, June,
4.8) Natural Language Generation [* = selected papers included on this site]
* 5th, 1990, June
3-6,
* 7th, 1994, June 21-24,
* 8th, 1996, June 12-15,
* 9th, 1998, August 5-7,
4.9) Workshop on Very Large Corpora [* = selected papers included on this site]
* 1st, 1993, June 22,
2nd, 1994 not available
* 3rd, 1995, June 30,
* 4th, 1996, Augsut 4,
* 5th, 1997, August 18 and 20,
* 6th, 1998, Augsut 15-16
[held as part of Coling-ACL 1998],
4.10) Language
Resources and Evaluation Conferences (LREC) [* selected MT related papers on this site]
1st, 1998, May 28-30,
* 2nd, 2000, May 31 – June 2,
* 3rd, 2002, May 29-31,
* 4th, 2004, May 24-30,
* 5th, 2006, May 22-28,
4.11) European Summer Schools on Logic, Linguistics and
Information (ESSLLI)
9th,
ESSLLI-1997,
10th, ESSLLI-1998, Saarbrücken.,
4.12) Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing
(RANLP)
1995, September
14-16,
1997, September
11-13,
2001, September
5-7,
2003, September
10-12,
2005, September 21-23,
* RANLP, 2005: International
Workshop: Modern approaches in translation technologies,
2007, September 27-29,
4.13) Controlled Language Applications Workshop (CLAW)
1st, 1996, May 26-27, Katholieke
2nd, 1998, May 21-22,
3rd, 2000 April 29-30,
* 4th, 2003 May 15-17,
* 5th, 2006, August 12,
5) other computational linguistics conferences
Overcoming the language barrier,
IJCNLP, 2004, March 21-26,