MT Marathon in the Americas 2024 Program


The schedule below is subject to change. Coffee and snacks will be provided every morning.
MondayJuly 29
9:30-10:00 Welcome to MTMA'24
10:00-11:00 Project kickoff
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:30 Project proposals
12:30-13:30 Lunch Break
13:30- Projects
TuesdayJuly 30
10:00-11:00 Antonios Anastasopoulos - Dialectal MT: Challenges and Solutions
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
12:30-13:30 Lunch Break
13:30-15:00 Projects
15:00-16:00 Matt Post - Document-level MT and Evaluation
WednesdayJuly 31
10:00-11:00 Kelly Marchisio - Multilingual Research at Cohere
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
12:30-13:30 Lunch Break
13:30-15:00 Projects
afternoon Mid-week project presentations
15:00-16:00 Kenton Murray - LLMs for Machine Translation
ThursdayAugust 1
10:00-11:00 Philipp Koehn - Multilingual Challenges to Large Language Models
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
12:30-13:30 Lunch Break
13:30-15:00 Projects
15:00-16:00 Paul McNamee - Data Augmentation in Low- and Moderate-Resourced Languages
FridayAugust 2
10:00-11:00 Shuoyang Ding - Evaluation of MT: Raise the bar in the age of human parity and LLMs
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
12:30-13:30 Lunch Break
14:30-15:30 Project presentations
15:30-15:45 Closing Remarks