The Association for Machine Translation in the Americas will offer a free showcase of applications on Thursday, August 10, at its seventh biennial conference ( http://amta2006.amtaweb.org/index.htm ). The aim of these presentations is to give the public a general introduction to machine translation and its real world applications.
Showcased applications and their presenters include: Foreign language broadcast/video monitoring (BBN, Virage), cross-language search (Apptek, Mitre), document exploitation (CACI, NovoDynamics, the National Air and Space Intelligence Center), translation for real time communication (Spoken Technologies, Mitre), and general and special purpose machine translation systems, MT portals, and associated tools (Apptek, Basis Technologies, Center for Applied Machine Translation, LanAConsulting, Language Weaver, LEC, Sakhr, Systran and Max Planck Institute).