IWSLT 2007

International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation

15-16 October 2007

Trento, Italy

 

Proceedings

 

 

Monday 15 October 2007

 

 

Workshop opening

 

Cameron Shaw Fordyce: Overview of the IWSLT 2007 evaluation campaign. 12pp. [PDF, 923KB]; presentation [PDF, 579KB]

 

 

Technical papers (chair: Satoshi Nakamura)

 

Alicia Pérez, Víctor Guijarrubia, Raquel Justo, M. Inés Torres, Francisco Casacuberta: A comparison of linguistically and statistically enhanced models for speech-to-speech machine translation.  8pp. [PDF, 1234KB]; presentation [PDF, 2546KB]

 

Yuqi Zhang, Richard Zens, Hermann Ney: Improved chunk-level reordering for statistical machine translation. 8pp. [PDF, 255KB]; presentation [PDF, 1644KB]

 

Nguyen Bach, Matthais Eck, Paisarn Charoenpornsawat, Thilo Köhler, Sebastian Stüker, ThuyLinh Nguyen, Roger Hsiao, Alex Waibel, Stephan Vogel, Tanja Schultz, Alan W.Black: The CMU TransTac 2007 eyes-free two-way speech-to-speech translation system. 8pp. [PDF, 489KB]; presentation [PDF, 1043KB]

 

 

System papers: session 1 (chair: Gianni Lazzari)

 

Yu Zhou, Yanqing He, Chengqing Zong: CASIA phrase-based SMT system for IWSLT’07. [Paper not available];  presentation [PDF, 343KB]

 

Josh Schroeder, Philipp Koehn: The University of Edinburgh system description for IWSLT 2007. 6pp. [PDF, 300KB]; presentation [PDF, 222KB]

 

Yves Lepage, Adrien Lardilleux: The GREYC machine translation system for the IWSLT 2007 evaluation campaign. 7pp. [PDF, 312KB]; presentation [PDF, 584KB]

 

Boxing Chen, Jun Sun, Hongfei Jiang, Min Zhang, Ai Ti Aw: I2R Chinese-English translation system for IWSLT 2007. 6pp. [PDF, 91KB]; presentation [PDF, 204KB]

 

 

System papers: session 2 (chair: Alex Waibel)

 

Ian Lane, Andreas Zollmann, Thuy Linh Nguyen, Nguyen Bach, Ashish Venugopal, Stephan Vogel, Kay Rottmann, Ying Zhang, Alex Waibel: The CMU-UKA statistical machine translation systems for IWSLT 2007. 7pp. [PDF, 150KB]; presentation [PDF, 393KB]

 

Hany Hassan, Yanjun Ma, Andy Way: MaTrEx: the DCU machine translation system for IWSLT 2007. 6pp. [PDF, 113KB]; presentation [PDF, 185KB]

 

Nicola Bertoldi, Mauro Cettolo, Roldano Cattoni, Marcello Federico: FBK@IWSLT 2007. 8pp. [PDF, 86KB]; presentation [PDF, 1163KB]

 

Yihai Shen, Chi-kiu Lo, Marine Carpuat, Dekai Wu: HKUST statistical machine translation experiments for IWSLT 2007. 5pp. [PDF, 46KB]; presentation [PDF, 517KB]

 

 

System papers: session 3 (chair: José B. Mariño)

 

Katrin Kirchhoff , Mei Yang: The University of Washington machine translation system for the IWSLT 2007 competition. 6pp. [PDF, 106KB]; presentation [PDF, 505KB]

 

Wade Shen, Brian Delaney, Tim Anderson, Ray Slyh: The MIT-LL/AFRL IWSLT-2007 MT system.  8pp. [PDF, 174KB]; presentation [PDF, 623KB]

 

Andrew Finch, Etienne Denoual, Hideo Okuma, Michael Paul, Hirofumi Yamamoto, Keiji Yasuda, Ruiqiang Zhang, Eiichiro Sumita: The NICT/ATR speech translation system for IWSLT 2007. 8pp. [PDF, 445KB]; presentation [PDF, 2165KB]

 

Taro Watanabe, Jun Suzuki, Katsuhito Sudoh, Hajime Tsukada, Hideki Isozaki: Larger feature set approach for machine translation in IWSLT 2007. 8pp. [PDF, 154KB]; presentation [PDF, 1303KB]

 

Tuesday 16 October 2007

 

Invited talk (chair: Katrin Kirchhoff)

 

Enrique Vidal: Source and target language speech in machine translation. [Paper not available]

 

 

System papers: session 4 (chair: Andy Way)

 

Zhongjun He, Haitao Mi, Yang Liu, Deyi Xiong, Weihua Luo, Yun Huang, Zhixiang Ren, Yajuan Lu, Qun Liu: The ICT statistical machine translation systems for IWSLT 2007. 6pp. [PDF, 102KB]; presentation [PDF, 2153KB]

 

João V. Graça, Diamantino Caseiro, Luísa Coheur: The INESC-ID IWSLT07 SMT system. 6pp. [PDF, 135KB]; presentation [PDF, 736KB]

 

Vicente Alabau, Alberto Sanchis, Francisco Casacuberta: Using word posterior probabilities in lattice translation. 6pp. [PDF, 94KB]; presentation [PDF, 141KB]

               

Laurent Besacier, Amar Mahdhaoui, Viet-Bac Le: The LIG Arabic/English speech translation system at IWSLT07. 5pp. [PDF, 305KB]; presentation [PDF, 313KB]

 

 

System papers: session 5 (chair: Hermann Ney)

 

Wen-Han Chao, Zhou-Jun Li: NUDT machine translation system for IWSLT2007. 4pp. [PDF, 135KB]; presentation by Boxing Chen [PDF, 308KB]

 

Alexandre Patry, Philippe Langlais, Frédéric Béchet: MISTRAL: a lattice translation system for IWSLT 2007.  IWSLT 2007: International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, 15-16 October 2007, Trento, Italy. 5pp. [PDF, 120KB]; presentation [PDF, 491KB]

 

Jin’ichi Murakami, Masato Tokuhisa, Satoru Ikehara: Statistical machine translation using large J/E parallel corpus and long phrase tables. 6pp. [PDF, 69KB]; presentation [PDF, 304KB]

 

Yidong Chen, Xiaodong Shi, Changle Zhou: The XMU SMT system for IWSLT 2007. 4pp. [PDF, 69KB]; presentation [PDF, 1881KB]

 

 

System papers: session 6 (chair: Chengqing Zong)

 

Arne Mauser, David Vilar, Gregor Leusch, Yuqi Zhang, Hermann Ney: The RWTH machine translation system for IWSLT 2007. 8pp. [PDF, 114KB]; presentation [PDF, 152KB]

 

Patrik Lambert, Marta R.Costa-jussà, Josep M.Crego, Maxim Khalilov, José B.Mariño, Rafael E.Banchs, José A.R.Fonollosa, Holger Schwenk: The TALP ngram-based SMT system for IWSLT 2007. 7pp. [PDF, 312KB]; presentation [PDF, 584KB]

 

Coşkun Mermer, Hamza Kaya, Mehmet Uğur Doğan: The TÜBÍTAK-UEKAE statistical machine translation system for IWSLT 2007.  4pp. [PDF, 108KB]; presentation [PDF, 202KB]

 

Christopher J.Dyer: The University of Maryland translation system for IWSLT 2007. 6pp. [PDF, 174KB]

 

Discussion panel (moderator: Philipp Koehn)