MT User Presentations:  Commercial Users and Translators

Contact: Mike Dillinger  ( mike@translationOptimization.com )

The Commercial User track will focus on how MT can meet business needs such as
just-in-time localization of critical information, provisioning of technical
support information, or creation of preliminary translations for post-editing.
Submissions should focus on the use of MT in a business setting and how it is
integrated with other technologies to support business goals. 


Important dates:

- Submissions due:                    Monday, June 28
- Notification of acceptance:          Monday, July 12
- Final "camera-ready" versions due:  Monday, August 16


Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

- Integrating MT and human translation
- Post-editing experiences and data about productivity
- ROI analyses of post-editing versus translation
- Use of MT to provide localization of data-driven, dynamic, or user-specific
  information
- Use of MT to reduce localization time and/or cost
- Ways in which MT can be used to increase the scope of globalization projects
- Managing change when implementing MT systems
- Open-source and low-cost MT tools: are they realistic and is there a market
  for them?

What to submit:

Ideal presentations will clearly identify a business need and describe how MT
meets those needs, with a candid assessment of its strengths and limitations
for that particular usage.  Submissions should be 250-500 word summaries and
may be sent directly in e-mail or as attachments in RTF format.

How to submit:

Send submissions or questions by email to Mike Dillinger
(mike@translationOptimization.com) by Monday, June 28.