Program
Full IWSLT 2012 proceedings in printable form [pdf]
| Thursday, December 6th, 2012 | ||
| 08:30-09:15h | Workshop Registration | |
| 09:15-09:30h | Welcome remarks — room 4018, near lift 2/3 Eiichiro Sumita, Dekai Wu |
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| 09:30-10:15h | Keynote speech 1 (chair: Michael Paul) — room 4018, near lift 2/3 "Toward Universal Network-based Speech Translation" [abstract] [slides] Dr. Chai Wutiwiwatchai, National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC) |
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| 10:15-10:35h | Coffee Break | |
| 10:35-12:00h | Oral Session - Evaluation Campaign I (chair: Graham Neubig) — room 4018, near lift 2/3 | |
| 10:35-11:20h | "Overview of the IWSLT 2012 Evaluation Campaign" [pdf] [slides] Marcello Federico, Mauro Cettolo, Luisa Bentivogli, Michael Paul, Sebastian Stüker |
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| 11:20-11:40h | "The NICT ASR System for IWSLT2012" [pdf] [slides] Hitosho Yamamoto, Youzheng Wu, Chien-Lin Huang, Xugang Lu, Paul R. Dixon, Shigeki Matsuda, Chiori Hori, Hideki Kashioka |
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| 11:40-12:00h | "The KIT Translation systems for IWSLT 2012" [pdf] [slides] Mohammed Mediani, Yuqi Zhang, Thanh-Le Ha, Jan Niehues, Eunah Cho, Teresa Herrmann, Rainer Kärgely, Alexander Waibel |
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| 12:00-14:00h | Lunch Break | |
| 14:00-16:00h | Oral Session - Evaluation Campaign II (chair: Christian Saam) — room 5620, near lift 31/32 | |
| 14:00-14:20h | "The UEDIN Systems for the IWSLT 2012 Evaluation" [pdf] [slides] Eva Hasler, Peter Bell, Arnab Ghoshal, Barry Haddow, Philipp Koehn, Fergus McInnes, Steve Renals, Pawel Swietojanski |
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| 14:20-14:40h | "The NAIST MachineTranslation System for IWSLT2012" [pdf] [slides] Graham Neubig, Kevin Duh, Masaya Ogushi, Takatomo Kano, Tetsuo Kiso, Sakriani Sakti, Tomoki Toda, Satoshi Nakamura |
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| 14:40-15:00h | "FBK's Machine Translation Systems for IWSLT 2012's TED Lectures" [pdf] [slides] Nicholas Ruiz, Arianna Bisazza, Roldano Cattoni, Marcello Federico |
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| 15:00-15:20h | Coffee Break | |
| 15:20-15:40h | "The RWTH Aachen Speech Recognition and Machine Translation System for IWSLT 2012" [pdf] [slides] Stephan Peitz, Saab Mansour, Markus Freitag, Minwei Feng, Matthias Huck, Joern Wuebker, Malte Nuhn, Markus Nuβbaum-Thom, Hermann Ney |
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| 15:40-16:00h | "The HIT- LTRC Machine Translation System for IWSLT 2012" [pdf] [slides] Xiaoning Zhu, Yiming Cui, Conghui Zhu, Tiejun Zhao, Hailong Cao |
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| 16:00-17:30h | Poster Session I (chair: Michael Paul) — room 5620, near lift 31/32 | |
| ・"FBK @ IWSLT 2012 - ASR track" [pdf] Daniele Falavigna, Roberto Gretter, Fabio Brugnara, Diego Giuliani ・"The 2012 KIT and KIT-NAIST English ASR Systems for the IWSLT Evaluation" [pdf] Christian Saam, Christian Mohr, Kelvin Kilgour, Michael Heck, Matthias Sperber, Keigo Kubo, Sebastian Stüker, Sakriani Sakti, Graham Neubig, Tomoki Toda, Satoshi Nakamura, Alexander Waibel ・"The KIT-NAIST (Contrastive) English ASR System for IWSLT 2012" [pdf] Michael Heck, Keigo Kubo, Matthias Sperber, Sakriani Sakti, Sebastian Stüker, Christian Saam, Kelvin Kilgour, Christian Mohr, Graham Neubig, Tomoki Toda, Satoshi Nakamura, Alexander Waibel ・"EBMT System of Kyoto University in OLYMPICS Task at IWSLT 2012" [pdf] Chengui Chu, Toshiaki Nakazawa, Sadao Kurohashi ・"The LIG English to French Machine Translation System for IWSLT 2012" [pdf] Laurent Besancier, Benjamin Lecouteux, Marwen Azouzi, Quan Luong Ngoc ・"The MIT-LL/AFRL IWSLT-2012 MT System" [pdf] Jennifer Drexler, Wade Shen, Timothy Anderson, Brian Ore, Ray Slyh, Eric Hansen, Terry Gleason ・"Minimum Bayes-Risk Decoding Extended with Two Methods: NAIST-NICT at IWSLT 2012" [pdf] Hiroaki Shimizu, Masao Utiyama, Eiichiro Sumita, Satoshi Nakamura ・"The NICT Translation System for IWSLT 2012" [pdf] Andrew Finch, Ohnmar Htun, Eiichiro Sumita ・"TED Polish-to-English translation system for the IWSLT 2012" [pdf] Krzysztof Marasek ・"Forest-to-String Translation using Binarized Dependency Forest for IWSLT 2012 OLYMPICS Task" [pdf] Hwidong Na, Jong-Hyeok Lee ・"Romanian to English Automatic MT Experiments at IWSLT12" [pdf] Stefan Dumitrescu, Radu Ion, Dan Ştefănescu, Tiberiu Boroş, Dan Tufis ・"The TÜBİTAK Statistical Machine Translation System for IWSLT 2012" [pdf] Coskun Mermer, Hamza Kaya, Ilknur Durgar El-Kahlout, Mehmet Ugur Dogan + 7 poster presentations of the papers presented in the oral sessions |
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| 18:00h | Social Event — lion dance, double decker bus to Tsimshatsui, traditional sailing junk to Lamma island, Chinese seafood banquet on Lamma | |
| Friday, December 7th, 2012 | ||
| 09:30-10:15h | Keynote speech 2 (chair: Chiori Hori) — room 5620, near lift 31/32 "Who Can Understand Your Speech Better — Deep Neural Network or Gaussian Mixture Model?" [abstract] [slides] Dr. Dong Yu, Microsoft Research |
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| 10:15-10:40h | Coffee Break | |
| 10:40-12:00h | Oral Session - Technical Papers I: ASR (chair: Chiori Hori) — room 5620, near lift 31/32 | |
| 10:40-11:00h | "Active Error Detection and Resolution for Speech-to-Speech Translation" [pdf] [slides] Rohit Prasad, Rohit Kumar, Sankaranarayanan Ananthakrishnan, Wei Chen, Sanjika Hewavitharana, Matthew Roy, Frederick Choi, Aaron Challenner, Enoch Kan, Arvind Neelakantan, Prem Natarajan |
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| 11:00-11:20h | "A Method for Translation of Paralinguistic Information" [pdf] [slides] Takatomo Kano, Sakriani Sakti, Shinnosuke Takamichi, Graham Neubig, Tomoki Toda, Satoshi Nakamura |
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| 11:20-11:40h | "Continuous Space Language Models using Restricted Boltzmann Machines" [pdf] [slides] Jan Niehues, Alexander Waibel |
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| 11:40-12:00h | "Focusing Language Models For Automatic Speech Recognition" [pdf] [slides] Daniele Falavigna, Roberto Gretter |
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| 12:00-13:30h | Lunch Break | |
| 13:30-14:15h | Keynote speech 3 (chair: Eiichiro Sumita) — room 5620, near lift 31/32 "Head Finalization: Translation from SVO to SOV" [abstract] [slides] Prof. Hideki Isozaki, Okayama Prefectural University |
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| 14:15-15:35h | Oral Session - Technical Papers II: MT (chair: Dekai Wu) — room 5620, near lift 31/32 | |
| 14:15-14:35h | "Simulating Human Judgment in Machine Translation Evaluation Campaigns" [pdf] [slides] Philipp Koehn |
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| 14:35-14:55h | "Semi-supervised Transliteration Mining from Parallel and Comparable Corpora" [pdf] [slides] Walid Aransa, Hoger Schwenk, Loic Barrault |
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| 14:55-15:15h | "A Simple and Effective Weighted Phrase Extraction for Machine Translation Adaptation" [pdf] [slides] Saab Mansour, Hermann Ney |
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| 15:15-15:35h | "Applications of Data Selection via Cross-Entropy Difference for Real-World Statistical Machine Translation" [pdf] [slides] Amittai Axelrod, QingJun Li, William D. Lewis |
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| 15:35-16:00h | Coffee Break | |
| 16:00-17:30h | Poster Session II (chair: Philipp Koehn) — room 5620, near lift 31/32 | |
| ・"A Universal Approach to Translating Numerical and Time Expressions" [pdf] Mei Tum, Yu Zhou, Chengqing Zong ・"Evaluation of Interactive User Corrections for Lecture Transcription" [pdf] Henrich Kolkhorst, Jevin Kilgour, Sebastian Stüker, Alexander Waibel ・"Factored Recurrent Neural Network Language Model in TED Lecture Transcription" [pdf] Youzheng Wu, Hitoshi Yamamoto, Xugang Lu, Shigeki Matsuda, Chiori Hori, Hideki Kashioka ・"Incremental Adaptation Using Translation Information and Post-Editing Analysis" [pdf] Frederic Blain, Holger Schwenk, Jean Senellart ・"Interactive-Predictive Speech-Enabled Computer-Assisted Translation" [pdf] Shahram Khadivi, Zeinab Vakil ・"MDI Adaptation for the Lazy: Avoiding Normalization in LM Adaptation for Lecture Translation" [pdf] Nick Ruiz, Marcello Federico ・"Segmentation and Punctuation Prediction in Speech Language Translation Using a Monolingual Translation System" [pdf] Eunah Cho, Jan Niehues, Alexander Waibel ・"Sequence Labeling-based Reordering Model for Phrase-based SMT" [pdf] Minwei Feng, Jan-Thorsten Peter, Hermann Ney ・"Sparse Lexicalised Features and Topic Adaptation for SMT" [pdf] Eva Hasler, Barry Haddow, Philipp Koehn ・"Spoken Language Translation Using Automatically Transcribed Text in Training" [pdf] Stephan Peitz, Simon Wiesler, Markus Nuβbaum-Thom, Hermann Ney ・"Towards a Better Understanding of Statistical Post-Edition Usefulness" [pdf] Marion Potet, Laurent Besacier, Herve Blanchon, Marwen Azouzi ・"Towards Contextual Adaptation for Any-text Translation" [pdf] Li Gong, Aurelien Max, Francois Yvon |
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| 17:30-18:00h | Closing Ceremony - Best Paper Awards — room 5620, near lift 31/32 | |
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