IWSLT 2008
International Workshop on Spoken Language
Translation
20-21 October 2008
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
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