The seventh Machine Translation Summit, organized by the Asia-Pacific Association for Machine Translation (AAMT), was held at Kent Ridge Digital Labs on the campus of National University of Singapore from 13 to 17 September 1999. Meetings of the MT Summit have been held once every two years since 1987 under the auspices of AAMT, EAMT (European Association for Machine Translation) and AMTA (Association for Machine Translation in the Americas). MT Summit VII, which is the last conference of the 20th century in the premier series of conferences on machine translation, provides a forum for discussing the prospect of MT and related areas in the coming century. MT Summit VII features an expanded program including research papers, reports on users' experiences, discussions of policy issues, invited talks, panels, exhibitions, tutorials, and workshops.