AMTA 2018 Tutorial Proposal (To Be Submitted by Monday, December 11, 2017)

AMTA 2018 Tutorial Proposal (to be submitted by Monday, December 11, 2017)

Tutorials at AMTA 2018are intended to attract experts who can share their expertise in half-day (or occasionally full-day) teaching sessions. Tutorials are held before the conference, and provide background that will help participants understand the conference program (especially for newcomers to the field), or enrich their understanding of particular technical, applied, and business matters surrounding research, development and use of MT and translation technology. Tutorials are often delivered as PowerPoint presentations, sometimes with demos, online information, participant exercises and other instructional materials and activities.

Tutorial Policy and Information

Handouts: Tutorial fees reflect the fact that participants are buying access to an expert, and gaining something of value. In this light, it is important to provide well-organized presentations for the participants. Tutorial presenters are responsible for providing materials such as PowerPoint slides to AMTA, for compilation in a PDF file, which AMTA will provide to attendees in electronic form. AMTA will not print out materials for tutorial organizers – if the organizers plan to distribute such materials, they should bring them to AMTA.

Timing and Location: Tutorials will be held on Saturday, March 17, 2018 and Wednesday, March 21, 2018, the days immediately before and after the main conference at the Aloft Boston Seaport hotelin Boston, Massachusetts.

Compensation: The tutorial presenter will receive an honorarium of $500 if there are at least 12 registered attendees for the tutorial. The honorarium will not increase if there is more than one presenter.

Cancelation: Please note that for cost reasons, the AMTA 2018organizing committee reserves the right, at its discretion, to cancel any tutorial that has fewer than 8 to 10 registered attendees.

Agreement for Presenter of Tutorial

1)If my tutorial proposal is accepted for AMTA 2018, I commit to preparing a suitable instructional presentation, and providing it in pdf form to the Tutorials Chair no later than Friday, March 2, 2018.

2)I commit to travel to the conference site to deliver the tutorial on Saturday, March 17, 2018 or Wednesday, March 21, 2018, dependent on conference scheduling. I assert that I have all necessary travel permissions, visas, and funding to do so.

3)I agree to allow AMTA to distribute extra copies of the tutorial presentation after the conference for a nominal fee.

Tutorial Title ______

Tutorial Presenter ______

Agreement Date______

Tutorial Description

Length: (Half Day or Full Day):

Preferred date (Saturday, March 17, 2018 or Wednesday, March 21, 2018):

Technical Requirements:

Content (include below or attach a description of at most one page):