International Workshop on Spoken
Language Translation
Evaluation
Campaign on Spoken Language Translation
November 27 - 28, 2006
ATR Spoken Language Translation Research
Laboratories,
Proceedings
Michael Paul: Overview of the IWSLT06 evaluation campaign
Srinivas Bangalore, Stephan Kanthak, Patrick Haffner: Finite-state transducer-based statistical machine translation using joint probabilities
Christian Boitet, Youcef Bey, Mutsuko Tomokio, Wenjie Cao, Hervé Blanchon: IWSLT-06: experiments with commercial MT systems and lessons from subjective evaluations
Nicolas Stroppa,
Marine Carpuat, Yihai Shen, Xiaofeng Yu, Dekai Wu: Toward integrating word sense and entity disambiguation into statistical machine translation
Young-Suk Lee: IBM Arabic-to-English translation for IWSLT 2006
Boxing Chen, Roldano Cattoni, Nicola Bertoldi, Mauro Cettolo, Marcello Federico: The ITC-irst SMT system for IWSLT 2006
Wade Shen, Richard Zens, Nicola Bertoldi, Marcello Federico: The JHU workshop 2006 IWSLT system
Toshiaki Nakazawa, Kun Yu, Daisuke Kawahara, Sadao Kurohashi: Example-based machine translation based on deeper NLP
Wade Shen, Brian Delaney, Tim Anderson: The MIT-LL/AFRL IWSLT-2006 MT system
Mamoru Komachi, Masaaki Nagata, Yuji Matsumoto: Phrase reordering for statistical machine translation based on predicate-argument structure
Ruiqiang Zhang, Hirofumi Yamamoto, Michael Paul, Hideo Okuma, Keiji Yasuda, Yves Lepage, Etienne Denoual, Daichi Mochihashi, Andrew Finch, Eiichiro Sumita: The NiCT-ATR statistical machine translation system for IWSLT 2006
Chunguang Chai, Jinhua Du, Wei Wei, Peng Liu, Keyan Zhou, Yanqing He, Chengqing Zong: NLPR translation system for IWSLT 2006 evaluation campaign
Taro Watanabe, Jun Suzuki, Hajime Tsukada, Hideki Isozaki: NTT statistical machine translation for IWSLT 2006
Arne Mauser, Richard Zens, Evgeny Matusov, Sasa Hasan, Hermann Ney: The RWTH statistical machine translation system for the IWSLT 2006 evaluation
Pete Whitelock, Victor Poznanski: The SLE example-based translation system
Josep M. Crego, Adrià de Gispert, Patrick Lambert, Maxim Khalilov, Marta R. Costa-jussà, José B. Mariño, Rafael Banchs, José A.R.Fonollosa: The TALP Ngram-based SMT systems for IWSLT 2006
Marta R. Costa-jussà, Josep M. Crego, Adrià de Gispert, Patrik Lambert, Maxim Khalilov, José A.R.Fonollosa, José B. Mariño, Rafael Banchs: TALP phrase-based system and TALP system combination for IWSLT 2006
Matthias Eck, Ian Lane, Nguyen Bach, Sanjika Hewavitharana, Muntsin Kolss, Bing Zhao, Almut Silja Hildebrand, Stephan Vogel, Alex Waibel: The UKA/CMU statistical machine translation system for IWSLT 2006
Andreas Zollmann, Ashish Venugopal, Stephan Vogel, Alex Waibel: The CMU-UKA syntax augmented machine translation system for IWSLT-06
Katrin Kirchhoff, Kevin Duh, Chris Lim: The University of Washington machine translation system for IWSLT 2006
Yidong Chen, Xiaodong Shi, Changle Zhou: The XMU phrase-based statistical machine translation system for IWSLT 2006
Technical papers
Evgeny Matusov, Arne Mauser, Hermann Ney: Automatic sentence segmentation and punctuation prediction for spoken language translation
Holger Schwenk, Marta R. Costa-jussà and José A. R. Fonollosa: Continuous space language models for the IWSLT 2006 task
Nicola Ueffing: Using monolingual source-language data to improve MT performance
Boxing Chen, Mauro Cettolo, Marcello Federico: Reordering rules for phrase-based statistical machine translation
Patrik Lambert, Rafael E. Banchs: Tuning machine translation parameters with SPSA
Brian Delaney, Wade Shen, Timothy Anderson: An efficient graph search decoder for phrase-based statistical machine translation
David Vilar, Maja Popovic, Hermann Ney: AER: do we need to “improve” our alignments?
Demonstration
Tohru Shimizu, Yutaka Ashikari, Eiichiro Sumita, Hideki Kashioka, Satoshi Nakamura: Development of client-server speech translation system on a multi-lingual speech communication platform
Keynote Speeches
Gianni Lazzari: TC-STAR: a speech to speech translation project [PPT slides]
Salim Roukos: Rosetta: an analyst’s co-pilot [Recent results on MT evaluation in the GALE program] [PPT slides]