Program of the 14th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2017)
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Thursday, December 14th, 2017
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08:15-09:00 |
Workshop Registration |
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09:00-09:30 |
Welcome Remarks (1F 102 Presentation Room) Satoshi Nakamura, IWSLT 2017 Workshop Chair (NAIST, Japan); Alex Waibel, IWSLT Steering Committee (CMU, USA & KIT, Germany); Fumihiko Tomita, NICT Vice President (NICT, Japan) |
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09:30-10:30 |
Invited Talk 1 [pdf] Chair: Alex Waibel (1F 102 Presentation Room) "The Move to Neural Machine Translation at Google", Mike Schuster (Google, USA) |
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10:30-11:00 |
Coffee Break |
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11:00-12:00 |
Chair: Katsuhito Sudo (1F 102 Presentation Room)
"Overview of the IWSLT 2017 Evaluation Campaign", Mauro Cettolo (FBK, Italy), Marcello Federico (FBK, Italy), Luisa Bentivogli (FBK, Italy), Jan Niehues (KIT, Germany), Sebastian Stüker (KIT, Germany), Katsuhito Sudoh (NAIST, Japan), Koichiro Yoshino (NAIST, Japan), and Christian Federmann (Microsoft, USA) |
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12:00–13:30 |
Lunch |
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13:30-15:30 |
Poster and Exhibition Session Chair: Sakriani Sakti (2F 205 Presentation Room) |
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13:30-15:30 |
Scientific Papers
"Neural Machine Translation Training in a Multi-Domain Scenario", Hassan Sajjad (QCRI-HBKU, Qatar), Nadir Durrani (QCRI-HBKU, Qatar), Fahim Dalvi (QCRI-HBKU, Qatar), Yonatan Belinkov (MIT CSAIL, USA), and Stephan Vogel
“Domain-Independent Punctuation and Segmentation Insertion”, Eunah Cho (KIT, Germany), Jan Niehues (KIT, Germany), and Alex Waibel (KIT, Germany)
P03: [pdf][poster]"Synthetic Data for Neural Machine Translation of Spoken-Dialects”, Hany Hassan (MSR AI, USA), Mostafa Elaraby (MSR AI, USA) and Ahmed Tawfik (MSR AI, USA)
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P06: [pdf][poster] |
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13:30-15:30 |
System Description Papers “Going Beyond Zero-Shot MT: Combining Phonological, Morphological and Semantic Factors. The UdS-DFKI System at IWSLT 2017”, Cristina España-Bonet (UdS & DFKI GmbH, Germany), and and Josef van Genabith (UdS & DFKI GmbH, Germany)
“The Samsung and University of Edinburgh’s submission to IWSLT17”, Pawel Przybysz (Samsung, Poland), Marcin Chochowski (Samsung R&D Center, Poland), Rico Sennrich (University of Edinburgh, UK), Barry Haddow (University of Edinburgh, UK) and Alexandra Birch (University of Edinburgh, UK)
P09: [pdf][poster]
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P11: [pdf][poster] |
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13:30-15:30 |
Exhibitions
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15:30-16:00 |
Coffee Break |
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16:00-17:30 |
Oral Session 1 |
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16:00–16:30 |
"Towards Better Translation Performance on Spoken Language", Chao Bei (GTCOM, China) and Hao Zong (GTCOM, China)
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16:30–17:00 |
"Kyoto University MT System Description for IWSLT 2017", Raj Dabre (Kyoto University, Japan), Fabien Cromieres (JST, Japan) and Sadao Kurohashi (Kyoto University, Japan)
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17:00-17.30 |
"The 2017 KIT IWSLT Speech-to-Text Systems for English and German", Thai Son Nguyen (KIT, Germany), Markus Müller (KIT, Germany), Matthias Sperber (KIT, Germany), Thomas Zenkel (KIT, Germany), Sebastian Stüker (KIT, Germany), and Alex Waibel (KIT, Germany)
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| 18:00-20:00 |
Social Event: Dinner Banquet at RIHGA Royal Hotel Tokyo 3F Garden Terrace Map and direction to the banquet place (10-minute walk)
From RIHGA Royal Hotel Tokyo:
To Tokyo Metro Waseda Station: 10-minute walk
To JR Takadanobaba Station - Free shuttle bus from hotel bus stop: 09:00 to 21:00, every 00/30 minutes - 8 minutes by taxi (900 - 1,000 JPY) - 30-minute walk |
Friday, December 15th, 2017
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08:30-09:30 |
Workshop Registration |
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09:30-10:30 |
Invited Talk 2 [pdf] "Simultaneous Interpreting, Cognitive Constraints, and Information Structure", Akira Mizuno (Aoyama Gakuin University & JAITS, Japan) |
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10:30-11:00 |
Coffee Break |
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11:00-12:00 |
Oral Session 2 |
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11:00-11:30 |
O2-1: [pdf][slides]
"CharCut: Human-Targeted Character-Based MT Evaluation with Loose Differences", Adrien Lardilleux (Fujitsu & DGT, Luxembourg) and Yves Lepage (Waseda University, Japan)
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11:30-12:00 |
"Data Selection with Cluster-Based Language Difference Models and Cynical Selection", Lucía Santamaría (Amazon, Germany) and Amittai Axelrod (Amazon, USA)
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12:00-13:30 |
Lunch |
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13:30-15:00 |
Oral Session 3 |
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13:30–14:00 |
"Continuous Space Reordering Models for Phrase-based MT”, Nadir Durrani (QCRI-HBKU, Qatar) and Fahim Dalvi (QCRI-HBKU, Qatar)
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14:00-14:30 |
"Evolution Strategy based Automatic Tuning of Neural Machine Translation Systems", Hao Qin (Tokyo Inst. Tech, Japan), Takahiro Shinozaki(Tokyo Inst. Tech, Japan), and Kevin Duh (JHU, USA)
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| 14:30-15:00 |
"Improving Zero-Shot Translation of Low-Resource Languages", Surafel Melaku Lakew (FBK & University Trento, Italy), Quintino Francesco Lotito(University of Trento, Italy), Matteo Negri (FBK, Italy), Marco Turchi (FBK, Italy), and Marcello Federico (FBK, Italy)
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| 15:00-15:30 | Coffee Break |
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Panel Discussion Chair: Jan Niehues (1F 102 Presentation Room)Panelists:
Topic2: The Future of the IWSLT Evaluation Campaign
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