It has been a huge honour for me to serve as president of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT) over the past six years. As I step down from office, I am delighted that the last EAMT annual conference under my presidency is being held in the beautiful location of Antalya, Turkey. This continues the policy I started in 2009 of bringing EAMT to new regions of Europe. This began with our first visit to the Iberian peninsula (Barcelona, 2009), our first conference in France in 2010 (St. Raphael), followed by the Benelux region in 2011 (Leuven), continuing in 2012 with our first conference hosted in Italy (Trento), followed by the 2014 meeting in Croatia (Dubrovnik). Quite coincidentally, you may have noticed that we have journeyed step-by-step from West to East, almost 4,000km in fact! Just to give you a little hint, next year's conference starts to reverse this trend, but only just! Of course, you'll have to wait until the closing session of this year's meeting before you find out the actual 2016 conference location!
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