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1) Subject:MT Summit and Nominations for IAMT Award

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Date: 10 Apr 2009
From:Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at ptd.net>
Subject:MT Summit and Nominations for IAMT Award

At the MT Summit in Ottawa this August, it will again be time to present
the "IAMT Award of Honor" to a member of our community.  Each of the
regional associations has been invited to produce nominations for the
award.  The AMTA representative on the nominating committee is Bob
Frederking <ref at cs.cmu.edu>.  Please send him any nominations you wish
to make, with a short justification statement, by April 20.  Included
below is the list of past awardees, and a relevant excerpt from the IAMT
bylaws.  Thank you.

Past Awardees:
1997: Makoto Nagao
1999: Muriel Vasconcellos
2001: John Hutchins
2003: none
2005: Maghi King
2007: Winifred Lehman (in memoriam)

Excerpt from bylaws:  http://www.eamt.org/legal/bylaws.php
The Council of IAMT shall confer an award on the occasion of its
biennial "MT Summit" conference to the individual member who in its
opinion has made an outstanding contribution to the promotion and
development of machine translation and/or to the aims and objectives of
IAMT:
...[to] bring together users, developers, researchers, sponsors, and
other individuals or institutional or corporate entities interested in
machine translation for the purpose of studying, evaluating, and
understanding the science of machine translation and educating the
public on important scientific techniques and principles of machine
translation.

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