What is the EAMT?
The European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT) is an organization that serves the growing community of people interested in MT and translation tools, including users,

EAMT 2008 Conference, 22-23 September 2008, Hamburg, Germany. First Call for Papers can be found here AMTA 2008 Conference, 21-25 October 2008, Waikiki, Hawai'i. Visit the conference website here

developers, and researchers of this increasingly viable technology.

IAMT
The EAMT is one of three regional associations of the International Association for Machine Translation (IAMT). Its sister organizations are the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA) and the Asian-Pacific Association for Machine Translation (AAMT).

Activities
Together with the AMTA and the AAMT, the EAMT publishes a newsletter, MTNI, and organizes workshops and conferences, such as the bi-annual MT Summit. Under the auspices of the IAMT, it also compiles listings of companies and products which are distributed free or at nominal cost to its members. The EAMT also maintains a mailing list, mt-list@eamt.org, as a public forum for the discussion of translation technology.

Non-profit
The EAMT is a non-profit organization registered in Switzerland. The EAMT was established in 1991, and it is the only organization of its kind in Europe.