Program of the 11th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2014)
December 04,2014
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08:30-09:15 |
WORKSHOP REGISTRATION |
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09:15-09:30 |
Welcome Remarks Satoshi Nakamura (General Chair) & Alex Waibel (Steeting Committee Chair), NAIST, Japan & KIT/CMU, Germany/USA |
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09:30-10:30 |
Overview of IWSLT 2014 Evaluation Marcello Federico & Sebastian Stüker, FBK, Italy & KIT, Germany |
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10:30-11:00 |
Coffee Break |
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11:00-12:30 |
EVALUATION CAMPAIGN |
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11:00-11:30 |
The NICT ASR System for IWSLT 2014 Peng Shen, Xugang Lu, Xinhui Hu, Naoyuki Kanda, Masahiro Saiko and Chiori Hori NICT, Japan |
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11:30-12:00 |
NTT-NAIST Syntax-based SMT Systems for IWSLT 2014 Katsuhito Sudoh, Graham Neubig, Kevin Duh and Katsuhiko Hayashi, NTT and NAIST, Japan |
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12:00-12:30 |
LIMSI English-French Speech Translation System Natalia Segal, Hélène Bonneau-Maynard, Quoc Khanh Do, Alexandre Al- lauzen, Jean-Luc Gauvain, Lori Lamel and François Yvon LIMSI/CNRS and Univ. Paris-Sud, France |
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12.:30–14:00 |
Lunch |
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14:00-16:00 |
ORAL SESSION I |
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14:00–14:30 |
Anticipatory Translation Model Adaptation for Bilingual Conversations Sanjika Hewavitharana, Dennis Mehay, Sankaranarayanan Ananthakrishnan, Rohit Kumar and John Makhoul BBN, USA |
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14:30–15:00 |
Better Punctuation Prediction with Hierarchical Phrase-Based Translation Stephan Peitz, Markus Freitag and Hermann Ney RWTH Aachen, Germany |
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15:00-15.30 |
Extracting Translation Pairs from Social Network Content Matthias Eck, Yury Zemlyanskiy, Joy Zhang and Alex Waibel, Facebook, USA |
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15:30-16:00 |
Empirical Dependency-Based Head Finalization for Statistical Chinese-, English-, and French-to-Myanmar (Burmese) Machine Translation Chenchen Ding, Ye Kyaw Thu, Masao Utiyama, Andrew Finch and Eiichiro Sumita, NICT, Japan |
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16:00-16:30 |
Coffee Break |
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16:30-18:00 |
POSTER SESSION |
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Polish - English Speech Statistical Machine Translation Systems for the IWSLT 2014 Krzysztof Wolk and Krzysztof Marasek PJIIT, Poland |
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A Topic-based Approach for Post-processing Correction of Automatic Translations Mohamed Morchid, Stéphane Huet and Richard Dufour LIA, France |
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The NICT Translation System for IWSLT 2014 Xiaolin Wang, Andrew Finch, Masao Utiyama, Taro Watanabe and Eiichiro Sumita NICT, Japan |
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The USTC Machine Translation System for IWSLT 2014 Shijin Wang, Yuguang Wang, Jianfeng Li, Yiming Cui and Lirong Dai USTC, China |
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NTT-NAIST Syntax-based SMT Systems for IWSLT 2014 Katsuhito Sudoh, Graham Neubig, Kevin Duh and Katsuhiko Hayashi NTT and NAIST, Japan |
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Improving In-Domain Data Selection For Small In-Domain Sets Mohammed Mediani, Joshua Winebarger and Alex Waibel KIT, Germany |
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Multilingual Deep Bottle Neck Features - A Study on Language Selection and Training Techniques Markus Müller, Sebastian Stücker, Zaid Sheikh, Florian Metze and Alex Waibel KIT, Germany and LTI, Carnegie Mellon, USA |
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Word Confidence Estimation for Speech Translation Laurent Besacier, Benjamin Lecouteux, Luong Ngoc Quang, Kaing Hour and Marwa Hadj Salah LIG, France |
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The NAIST-NTT TED Talk Treebank Graham Neubig, Katsuhito Sudoh, Yusuke Oda, Kevin Duh, Hajime Tsukada and Masaaki Nagata NAIST, Japan |
| Machine Translation of Multi-party Meetings: Segmentation and Disflu- ency Removal Strategies Eunah Cho, Jan Niehues and Alex Waibel, KIT, Germany |
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The USFD SLT System for IWSLT 2014 Raymond W. M. Ng, Mortaza Doulaty, Rama Doddipatla, Wilker Aziz, Kashif Shah, Lucia Specia, Thomas Hain, Oscar Saz, Madina Hasan and Ghada Al- harbi Univ. Sheffield, UK |
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LIMSI English-French Speech Translation System Natalia Segal, Hélène Bonneau-Maynard, Quoc Khanh Do, Alexandre Al- lauzen, Jean-Luc Gauvain, Lori Lamel and François Yvon LIMSI-CNRS and Univ. Paris-Sud, France |
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The LIUM English-to-French Spoken Language Translation System and the Vecsys/LIUM Automatic Speech Recognition System for Italian Lan- guage for IWSLT 2014 Anthony Rousseau, Loïc Barrault, Paul Deléglise, Yannick Estève, Holger Schwenk, Samir Bennacef, Armando Muscariello and Stephan Vanni LIUM and Vecsys, France |
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FBK’s Machine Translation and Speech Translation Systems for the IWSLT 2014 Evaluation Campaign Nicola Bertoldi, Prashant Mathur, Nicholas Ruiz and Marcello Federico FBK, Italy |
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19:00 |
SOCIAL EVENT DINNER |
December 05,2014
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09:00-10:30 |
ORAL SESSION II |
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09:00-10:00 |
Invited talk: Speech Translation for Everyone - Breaking down the Barri- ers Arul Menezes Microsoft Research, USA |
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10:00-10:30 |
Open Discussion: The future of IWSLT evaluation Chair: Marcello Federico and Sebastian Stüker, FBK, Italy and KIT, Germany |
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10:30-11:00 |
Coffee Break |
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11:00-12:30 |
ORAL SESSION III |
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11:00-11:30 |
An Exploration of Segmentation Strategies in Stream Decoding Andrew Finch, Xiaolin Wang and Eiichiro Sumita, NICT, Japan |
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11:30-12:00 |
Discriminative Adaptation of Continuous Space Translation Models Quoc-Khanh Do, Alexandre Allauzen and François Yvon, LIMSI-CNRS and Univ. Paris Sud, France |
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12:00-12:30 |
Lexical Translation Model Using A Deep Neural Network Architecture Thanh-Le Ha, Jan Niehues and Alex Waibel, KIT, Germany |
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12:30-14:00 |
Lunch |
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14:00-16:00 |
ORAL SESSION: QUALITY IN INTERPRETATION |
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14:00-15:00 |
Invited Talk: Olga Cosmidou Quality assurance in multilingual conference interpreting - the European Parliament experience Directorate-General for Interpretation and Conferences, Europe |
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15:00-16:00 |
Round Table: Quality in Interpretation Chair: Alex Waibel Participants: S. Altenberg, C. Bahr, O. Cosmidou, S. Stüker, D. Wu, F. Yvon |
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16:00-16:30 |
Coffee Break |
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16:30-18:00 |
POSTER SESSION II |
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Incremental Development of Statistical Machine Translation Systems Li Gong, Aurélien Max and François Yvon, LIMSI-CNRS and Univ. Paris-Sud |
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Offline Extraction of Overlapping Phrases for Hierarchical Phrase-Based Translation Sariya Karimova, Patrick Simianer and Stefan Riezler Heidelberg University, Germany |
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Translations of the CallHome Egyptian Arabic corpus for conversational speech translation Gaurav Kumar, Yuan Cao, Ryan Cotterell, Chris Callison-Burch, Daniel Povey and Sanjeev Khudanpur, Heidelberg University, Germany |
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Rule-Based Preordering on Multiple Syntactic Levels in Statistical Ma- chine Translation Ge Wu, Yuqi Zhang and Alex Waibel KIT, Germany |
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Advances in Dialectal Arabic Speech Recognition: A Study Using Twitter to Improve Egyptian ASR Ahmed Ali, Hamdy Mubarak and Stephan Vogel QCRI, Qatar |
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The RWTH Aachen Machine Translation Systems for IWSLT 2014 Joern Wuebker, Stephan Peitz, Andreas Guta and Hermann Ney, RWTH Aachen, Germany |
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The Speech Recognition Systems of IOIT for IWSLT 2014 Quoc Bao Nguyen, Tat Thang Vu and Chi Mai Luong, UICT and OIIT, Vietnam |
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Combined Spoken Language Translation Markus Freitag, Joern Wuebker, Stephan Peitz, Hermann Ney, Matthias Huck, Alexandra Birch, Nadir Durrani, Philipp Koehn, Mohammed Mediani, Isabel Slawik, Jan Niehues, Eunah Cho, Alex Waibel, Nicola Bertoldi, Mauro Cettolo and Marcello Federico, EU-BRIDGE Consortium, Europe |
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The KIT Translation Systems for IWSLT 2014 Isabel Slawik, Mohammed Mediani, Jan Niehues, Yuqi Zhang, Eunah Cho, Teresa Herrmann, Thanh-Le Ha and Alex Waibel KIT, Germany |
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FBK @ IWSLT 2014 - ASR track Bagher Babaali, Romain Serizel, Shahab Jalalvand, Daniele Falavigna, Roberto Gretter and Diego Giuliani FBK, Italy |
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The UEDIN ASR Systems for the IWSLT 2014 Evaluation Peter Bell, Pawel Swietojanski, Joris Driesen, Mark Sinclair, Fergus McInnes and Steve Renals Univ. Edinburgh, UK |
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Phrase-based Language Modelling for Statistical Machine Translation Achraf Ben Romdhane, Salma Jamoussi, Kamel Smaïli and Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou ISIM Sfax, Tunisia and LORIA, France |
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Edinburgh SLT and MT System Description for the IWSLT 2014 Evaluation Alexandra Birch, Matthias Huck, Nadir Durrani, Nikolay Bogoychev and Philipp Koehn, Univ. Edimburgh, UK |
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Improving MEANT Based Semantically Tuned SMT Meriem Beloucif, Chi-Kiu Lo and Dekai Wu, HKUST, Hong Kong |
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The 2014 KIT IWSLT Speech-to-Text Systems for English, German and Italian Kevin Kilgour, Michael Heck, Markus Mueller, Matthias Sperber, Sebastian Stücker and Alex Waibel, KIT, Germany |
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Towards Simultaneous Interpreting: The Timing of Incremental Machine Translation and Speech Synthesis Timo Baumann, Srinivas Bangalore and Julia Hirschberg Univ. Hamburg, Germany, ATT Labs and Columbia Univ., USA |
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18:00- |
CLOSING REMARKS + ANNOUNCEMENTS |
In case of any questions, just send an e-mail to Margit Rödder.
