Program of the 12th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2015)
Thursday, December 3rd, 2015
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08:30-09:15 |
WORKSHOP REGISTRATION |
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09:15-09:30 |
Welcome Remark Chi Mai Luong (General Chair) & Alex Waibel (Steering Committee Chair)IOIT, Vietnam & KIT-CMU, Germany, USA |
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09:30-10:30 |
Report on the 12th IWSLT Evaluation Campaign, IWSLT 2015 [slides] [pdf] Mauro Cettolo, Jan Niehues, Sebastian Stüker, Luisa Bentivogli and MarcelloFederico |
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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 |
ASR:The I2R ASR System for IWSLT 2015 [slides][pdf]
Huy Dat Tran, Jonathan Dennis and Wen Zheng Ng |
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11:30-12:00 |
SMT: Stanford Neural Machine Translation Systems for Spoken Language Domain [slides][pdf] Minh-Thang Luong and Christopher D. Manning Stanford, USA |
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12:00-12:30 |
SLT: The LIUM ASR and SLT Systems for IWSLT 2015 [slides][pdf] Mercedes Garcia Martinez, Loïc Barrault, Anthony Rousseau, Paul Deléglise and Yannick Estève LIUM, 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 |
Multifeature Modular Deep Neural Network Acoustic Models [slides][pdf] Kevin Kilgour and Alex Waibel KIT, Germany |
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14:30–15:00 |
Class-Based N-gram Language Difference Models for Data Selection [slides][pdf] Amittai Axelrod, Yogarshi Vyas, Marianna Martindale and Marine Carpuat JHU/UMD, USA |
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15:00-15.30 |
Parser Self-Training for Syntax-Based Machine Translation [slides][pdf] Makoto Morishita, Koichi Akabe, Yuto Hatakoshi, Graham Neubig, Koichiro Yoshino and Satoshi Nakamura NAIST, Japa
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15:30-16:00 |
Coffee Break |
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16:00-17:30 |
POSTER SESSION I |
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Unsupervised comparable corpora preparation and exploration for bilingual [pdf] translation equivalents Krzysztof Wolk and Krzysztof Marasek PJIIT, Poland |
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Evaluation and Revision of a Speech Translation System for Healthcare [pdf] Mark Seligman and Mike Dillinger Spoken Translation, Inc., USA
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Source Discriminative Word Lexicon for Translation Disambiguation [pdf] Teresa Herrmann, Jan Niehues and Alex Waibel. KIT, Germany
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Using Language Adaptive Deep Neural Networks for Improved Multilingual Speech Recognition [pdf] Markus Mueller and Alex Waibel KIT,Germany
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Morphology-Aware Alignments for Translation to and from a Synthetic Language [pdf] Franck Burlot and François Yvon LIMSI-CNRS, France
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The IOIT English ASR system for IWSLT 2015 [pdf] Van Huy Nguyen, Quoc Bao Nguyen, Tat Thang Vu and Chi Mai Luong IOIT, Vietnam
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The I2R ASR System for IWSLT 2015 [pdf] Huy Dat Tran, Jonathan Dennis and Wen Zheng Ng HLT-I2R, Singapore
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The NAIST English Speech Recognition System for IWSLT 2015 [pdf] Michael Heck, Quoc Truong Do, Sakriani Sakti, Graham Neubig and Satoshi Nakamura NAIST, Japan
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The RWTH Aachen Machine Translation System for IWSLT 2015 [pdf] Jan-Thorsten Peter, Farzad Toutounchi, Stephan Peitz, Parnia Bahar, Andreas Guta and Hermann Ney RWTH, Germany
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The MITLL-AFRL IWSLT 2015 MT System [pdf] Michaeel Kazi, Brian Thompson, Elizabeth Salesky, Timothy Anderson, Grant Erdmann, Eric Hansen, Brian Ore, Katherine Young, Jeremy Gwinnup, Michael Hutt and Christina May MITLL-AFRL, USA
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The MLLP ASR Systems for IWSLT 2015 [pdf] Miguel Ángel Del Agua Teba, Adrià Agustí Martínez Villaronga, Santiago Piqueras Gozalbes, Adrià Giménez Pastor, Jose Alberto Sanchís Navarro, Jorge Civera Saiz and Alfons Juan Císcar MLLP, Spain |
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The LIUM ASR and SLT Systems for IWSLT 2015 [pdf] Mercedes Garcia Martinez, Loïc Barrault, Anthony Rousseau, Paul Deléglise and Yannick Estève LIUM, France
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The KIT Translation Systems for IWSLT 2015 [pdf] Thanh-Le Ha, Jan Niehues, Eunah Cho, Mohammed Mediani and Alex Waibel KIT, Germany
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The 2015 KIT IWSLT Speech-to-Text Systems for English and German [pdf] Markus Mueller, Thai Son Nguyen, Matthias Sperber, Kevin Kilgour, Sebastian Stüker and Alex Waibel KIT, Germany
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18:30 |
SOCIAL EVENT DINNER |
Friday, December 4th, 2015
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09:00-10:30 |
ORAL SESSION II |
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09:00-10:00 |
Invited talk: Improving SMT by Model Filtering and Phrase Embedding [slides] Chengqing ZONG NLPR, China |
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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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1 0:30-11:00 |
Coffee Break |
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11:00-12:30 |
ORAL SESSION III |
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11:00-11:30 |
Inducing Bilingual Lexicons from Small Quantities of Sentence-Aligned Phonemic Transcriptions [slides] [pdf] Oliver Adams, Graham Neubig, Trevor Cohn and Steven Bird UNIMELB, Australia; NAIST, Japan
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11:30-12:00 |
Learning Segmentations that Balance Latency versus Quality in Spoken [slides] [pdf] Language Translation Hassan S. Shavarani, Maryam Siahbani, Ramtin Mehdizadeh Seraj and Anoop Sarkar SFU, Canada
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12:00-12:30 |
Punctuation Insertion for Real-time Spoken Language Translation [slides] [pdf] Eunah Cho, Kevin Kilgour, 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: IV |
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14:00-15:00 |
Panel: New trends in Spoken Language translation
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15:00-15:30 |
An Open Source Toolkit for Word-level Confidence Estimation in Machine Translation [slides] [pdf]
Christophe Servan, Le Ngoc Tien, Luong Ngoc Quang, Lecouteux Benjamin and Besacier Laurent IMAG, France; IDIAP, Switzerland
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15:30-16:00 |
Phrase-level Quality Estimation for Machine Translation [slides] [pdf] Varvara Logacheva and Lucia Specia USFD, UK |
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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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Development of a Filipino-to-English Bidirectional Statistical Machine [pdf] Translation System that dynamically updates via user feedback Joel Ilao, Jasmine Ang, Marc Randell Chan, Paolo Genato and Joyce Uy DLSU, Philippines
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Risk-aware Distribution of SMT Outputs for Translation of Documents [pdf] Targeting Many Anonymous Readers Yo Ehara, Masao Utiyama and Eiichiro Sumita TMU/NICT, Japan
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Applying Cross-Entropy Difference for Selecting Parallel Training Data [pdf] from Publicly Available Sources for Conversational Machine Translation William Lewis, Christian Federmann and Ying Xin Microsoft Research, USA
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Improving Continuous Space Language Models using Auxiliary Features [pdf] Walid Aransa, Holger Schwenk and Loic Barrault LIUM, France
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Improving Translation of Emphasis with Pause Prediction in Speech-tospeech [pdf] Translation Systems Quoc Truong Do, Sakriani Sakti, Graham Neubig, Tomoki Toda and Satoshi Nakamura ICTS/NAIST, Japan
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The English-Vietnamese Machine Translation System for IWSLT 2015 [pdf] Viet Tran Hong, Huyen Vu Thuong, Vinh Nguyen Van and Trung Le Tien Hanoi, Vietnam
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The JAIST-UET-MITI Machine Translation Systems for IWSLT 2015 [pdf] Hai-Long Trieu, Thanh-Quyen Dang, Phuong-Thai Nguyen and Le-Minh Nguyen JAIST,Japan /UET,Vietnam
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PJAIT Systems for the IWSLT 2015 Evaluation Campaign Enhanced by Comparable Corpora [pdf] Krzysztof Wolk and Krzysztof Marasek PJAIT, Poland
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Improvement of Word Alignment Models for Vietnamese-to-English Translation [pdf] Takahiro Nomura, Hajime Tsukada and Tomoyoshi Akiba TUT, Japan
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The Edinburgh Machine Translation Systems for IWSLT 2015 [pdf] Matthias Huck and Alexandra Birch UEDIN, UK
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The Heidelberg University English-German translation system for IWSLT [pdf] 2015 Laura Jehl, Patrick Simianer, Julian Hitschler and Stefan Riezler HDU, Germany
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The UMD Machine Translation Systems at IWSLT 2015 [pdf] Amittai Axelrod and Marine Carpuat UMD, USA
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Stanford Neural Machine Translation Systems for Spoken Language Domains [pdf] Minh-Thang Luong and Christopher D. Manning Stanford, USA
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18:00- |
CLOSING REMARKS + ANNOUNCEMENTS |
In case of any questions, just send an e-mail to Margit Rödder.
