IWSLT 2008

International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation

20-21 October 2008

Waikiki, Hawai’i, USA

 

Proceedings

 

 

Keynote speech

Scott Hourin: Language technology in humanitarian aid and disaster response [abstract]

 

Evaluation Campaign

 

Michael Paul: Overview of the IWSLT 2008 evaluation campaign. … pp.1-17

 

Andreas Zollmann, Ashish Venugopal, and Stephan Vogel: The CMU syntax-augmented machine translation system: SAMT on Hadoop with n-best alignments…. pp.18-25

 

Yanjun Ma, John Tinsley, Hany Hassan, Jinhua Du, and Andy Way: Exploiting alignment techniques in MATREX: the DCU machine translation system for IWSLT 2008…. pp.26-33

 

Nicola Bertoldi, Roldano Cattoni, Marcello Federico, and Madalina Barbaiani: FBK @ IWSLT-2008…. pp.34-38

 

Yves Lepage, Adrien Lardilleux, Julien Gosme, and Jean-Luc Manguin: The GREYC machine translation system for the IWSLT 2008 evaluation campaign…. pp.39-45

 

Boxing Chen, Deyi Xiong, Min Zhang, Aiti Aw, and Haizhou Li: I2R multi-pass machine translation system for IWSLT 2008….pp.46-51

 

Yang Liu, Zhongjun He, Haitao Mi, Yun Huang, Yang Feng, Wenbin Jiang, Yajuan Lu, and Qun Liu: The ICT system description for IWSLT 2008….pp.52-57

 

L.Besacier, A.Ben-Youssef, and H.Blanchon: The LIG Arabic/English speech translation system at IWSLT08….pp.58-62

 

Holger Schwenk, Yannick Estève, and Sadaf Abdul Rauf: The LIUM Arabic/English statistical machine translation system for IWSLT 2008….pp.63-68

 

Wade Shen, Brian Delaney, Tim Anderson, and Ray Slyh: The MIT-LL/AFRL IWSLT-2008 MT system….pp.69-76

 

Masao Utiyama, Andrew Finch, Hideo Okuma, Michael Paul, Hailong Cao, Hirofumi Yamamoto, Keiji Yasuda, and Eiichiro Sumita: The NICT/ATR speech translation system for IWSLT 2008….pp.77-84

 

Yanqing He, Jiajun Zhang, Maoxi Li, Licheng Fang, Yufeng Chen, Yu Zhou, and Chengqing Zong: The CASIA statistical machine translation system for IWSLT 2008…pp.85-91

 

Katsuhito Sudoh, Taro Watanabe, Jun Suzuki, Hajime Tsukada, and Hideki Isozaki: NTT statistical machine translation system for IWSLT 2008….pp.92-97

 

Jonghoon Lee and Gary Geunbae Lee: POSTECH machine translation system for IWSLT 2008 evaluation campaign….pp.98-103

 

Simon Carter, Christof Monz, and Sirvan Yahyaei: TheQMUL system description for IWSLT 2008….pp.104-107

 

David Vilar, Daniel Stein, Yuqi Zhang, Evgeny Matusov, Arne Mauser, Oliver Bender, Saab Mansour, and Hermann Ney: The RWTH machine translation system for IWSLT 2008….pp.108-115

 

Maxim Khalilov, Maria R. Costa-jussà, Carlos A.Henríquez Q., José A.R.Fonollosa, Adolfo Hernández H., José B.Mariño, Rafael E. Banchs, Chen Boxing, Min Zhang, Aiti Aw, and Haizhou Li: The TALP&I2R SMT systems for IWSLT 2008….pp.116-123

 

Haifeng Wang, Hua Wu, Xiaoguang Hu, Zhanyi Liu, Jianfeng Li, Dengjun Ren, and Zhengyu Niu: The TCH machine translation system for IWSLT 2008….pp.124-131

 

Jin’ichi Murakami, Masato Tokuhisa, and Satoru Ikehara: Statistical machine translation without long parallel sentences for training data….pp.132-137

 

Coşkun Mermer, Hamza Kaya, Ömer Farukhan Güneş, and Mehmet Uğur Doğan: The TÜBÍTAK-UEKAE statistical machine translation system for IWSLT 2008….pp.138-142

 

 

Technical Papers

 

Nicola Bertoldi, Madalina Barbaiani, Marcello Federico, and Roldano Cattoni: Phrase-based statistical machine translation with pivot languages….pp.143-149

 

Francis Bond, Eric Nichols, Darren Scott Appling, and Michael Paul: Improving statistical machine translation by paraphrasing the training data….pp.150-157

 

Alain Désilets, Marta Stojanovic, Jean-François Lapointe, Rick Rose, and Aarthi Reddy: Evaluating productivity gains of hybrid ASR-MT systems for translation dictation….pp.158-165

 

C.-L. Kao, S.Saleem, R.Prasad, F.Choi, P.Natarajan, D.Stallard, K.Krstovski, and M.Kamali: Rapid development of an English/Farsi speech-to-speech translation system….pp.166-173

 

Muntsin Kolss, Matthias Wölfel, Florian Kraft, Jan Niehues, Matthias Paulik, and Alex Waibel: Simultaneous German-English lecture translation….pp.174-181

 

Holger Schwenk: Investigations on large-scale lightly-supervised training for statistical machine translation….pp.182-189

 

David Vilar, Daniel Stein, and Hermann Ney: Analysing soft syntax features and heuristics for hierarchical phrase based machine translation….pp.190-197

 

Richard Zens and Hermann Ney: Improvements in dynamic programming beam search for phrase-based statistical machine translation….pp.195-205