Proceedings of the 11th
International Workshop on
Spoken Language Translation
(IWSLT 2014)
December 4th and 5th, 2014
Edited by
Marcello Federico, Sebastian Stüker, François Yvon
Table of contents
Satoshi Nakamura - Foreword
Keynotes
Arul Menezes: Speech translation for everyone – breaking down
the barriers [abstract]
Evaluation campaign
Mauro Cettolo, Jan Niehues,
Sebastian Stüker, Luisa Bentivogli, Marcello Federico: Report on the 11th IWSLT evaluation campaign;
pp.2-17 [PDF, 450KB]
B.BabaAli, R.Serizel,
S.Jalalvand, R.Gretter, D.Giuliani: FBK @ IWSLT
2014 – ASR track; pp.18-25 [PDF, 199KB]
Peter Bell, Pawel
Swietojanski, Joris Driesen, Mark Sinclair, Fergus McInnes, Steve Renals: The UEDIN ASR systems for the IWSLT 2014 evaluation;
pp.26-33 [PDF, 332KB]
Meriem Beloucif, Chi-kiu Lo,
Dekai Wu: Improving MEANT based semantically
tuned SMT; pp.34-41 [PDF, 497KB]
Nicola Bertoldi, Prashanu
Mathur, Nicolas Ruiz, Marcello Federico: FBK’s
machine translation and speech translation systems for the IWSLT 2014
evaluation campaign; pp.42-48 [PDF, 271KB]
Alexandra Birch, Matthias
Huck, Nadir Durrani, Nikolay Bogoychev, Philipp Koehn: Edinburgh SLT and MT system description for the
IWSLT 2014 evaluation; pp.49-56 [PDF, 199KB]
Markus Freitag, Joern
Wuebker, Stephan Peitz, Hermann Ney, Matthias Huck, Alexandra Birch, Nadir
Durrani, Philipp Koehn, Mohammed Mediani, Isabel Slawik, Jan Niehues, Eunach
Cho, Alex Waibel, Nicola Bertoldi, Mauro Cettolo, Marcello Federico: Combined spoken language translation;
pp.57-64 [PDF, 243KB]
Michael Kazi, Elizabeth
Salesky, Brian Thompson, Jessica Ray, Michael Coury, Tim Anderson, Grant Erdmann,
Jeremy Gwinnup, Katherine Young, Brian Ore, Michael Hutt: The MITLL-AFRL IWSLT 2014 MT system; pp.65-72
[PDF, 243KB]
Kevin Kilgour, Michael Heck,
Markus Müller, Matthias Sperber, Sebastian Stüker, Alex Waibel: The 2014 KIT IWSLT speech-to-text systems for
English, German and Italian; pp.73-79 [PDF, 217KB]
Mohamed Morchid, Stéphane
Huet, Richard Dufour: A topic-based approach
for post-processing correction of automatic translations; pp.80-85 [PDF,
385KB]
Raymond W.M.Ng, Mortaza
Doulaty, Rama Doddipatla, Wilker Aziz, Kashif Shah, Oscar Saz, Madina Hasan,
Ghada AlHaribi, Lucia Specia, Thomas Hain: The USFD
SLT system for IWSLT 2014; pp.86-91 [PDF, 287KB]
Quoc Bao Nguyen, Tat Thang
Vu, Chi Mai Luong: The speech recognition
systems of IOIT for IWSLT 2014; pp.92-95. [PDF, 233KB]
Achraf Ben Romdhane, Salma
Jamoussi, Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou, Kamel Smaïli: Phrase-based language modelling for statistical
machine translation; pp.96-99. [PDF, 209KB]
Anthony Rousseau, Loïc
Barrault, Paul Deléglise, Yannick Estève, Holger Schwenk, Samir Bennacef,
Armando Muscariello, Stephan Vanni: The LIUM
English-to-French spoken language translation system and the Vecsys/LIUM
automatic speech recognition system for Italian language for IWSLT 2014;
pp.100-105. [PDF, 220KB]
Natalia Segal, Hélène
Bonneau-Maynard, Quoc Khanh Do, Alexandre Allauzen, Jean-Luc Gauvain, Lori
Lamel, François Yvon: LIMSI English-French
speech translation system; pp.106-112. [PDF, 289KB]
Peng Shen, Yugang Lu, Xinhui
Hu, Naoyuki Kanda, Masahiro Saiko, Chiori Hori: The
NCT ASR system for IWSLT 2014; pp.113-118. [PDF, 200KB]
Isabel Slawik, Mohammed
Mediani, Jan Niehues, Yuqi Zhang, Eunah Cho, Teresa Herrmann, Thanh-Le Ha, Alex
Waibel: The KIT translation systems for IWSLT
2014; pp.119-126. [PDF, 298KB]
Katsuhito Sudoh, Graham
Neubig, Kevin Duh, Katsuhiko Hayashi: NTT-NAIST
syntax-based SMT systems for IWSLT 2014; pp.127- 133. [PDF, 282KB]
Shijin Wang, Yuguang Wang,
Jianfeng Li, Yiming Cui, Lirong Dai: The USTC
machine translation system for IWSLT 2014; pp.134-138. [PDF, 417KB]
Xiaolin Wang, Andrew Finch,
Masao Utiyama, Taro Watanabe, Eiichiro Sumita: The
NICT translation system for IWSLT 2014; pp.139-142 [PDF, 176KB]
Krzysztof Wolk, &
Krzysztof Marasek: Polish-English speech
statistical machine translation systems for the IWSLT 2014; pp.143-149.
[PDF, 302KB]
Joern Wuebker, Stephan Peitz,
Andreas Guta, Hermann Ney: The RWTH Aachen
machine translation systems for IWSLT 2014; pp.150-154. [PDF, 233KB]
Technical papers
Ahmed Ali, Hamdy Mubarak,
Stephan Vogel: Advances in dialectal Arabic speech
recognition: a study using Twitter to improve Egyptian ASR; pp.156-162.
[PDF, 337KB]
Timo Baumann, Srinivas
Bangalore, Julia Hirschberg: Towards
simultaneous interpreting: the timing of incremental machine translation and
speech synthesis; pp.163-168. [PDF, 271KB]
L.Besacier, B.Lecouteux,
N.Q.Luong, K.Hour, M.Hadjsalah: Word
confidence estimation for speech translation; pp.169-175. [PDF, 317KB]
Eunah Cho, Jan Niehues, Alex
Waibel: Machine translation of multi-party
meetings: segmentation and disfluency removal strategies; pp.176-183. [PDF,
233KB]
Chenchen Ding, Ye Kyaw Thu,
Masao Utiyama, Andrew Finch, Eiichiro Sumita: Empircal
dependency-based head finalization for statistical Chinese-, English-, and
French-to-Myanmar (Burmese) machine
translation; pp.184-191. [PDF, 401KB]
Quoc-Khanh Do, Alexandre
Allauzen, François Yvon: Discriminative adaptation
of continuous space translation models; pp.192-199. [PDF, 383KB]
Matthias
Eck, Yuri Zemlyanskiy, Joy Zhang, Alex Waibel: Extracting
translation pairs from social network content; pp.200-205. [PDF, 288KB]
Andrew Finch, Xiaolin Wang,
Eiichiro Sumita: An exploration of segmentation
strategies in stream decoding; pp.206-213. [PDF, 298KB]
Li Gong, Aurélien Max,
François Yvon: Incremental development of
statistical machine translation systems; pp.214-222. [PDF, 948KB]
Thanh-Le Ha, Jan Niehues,
Alex Waibel: Lexical translation model using a deep
neural network architecture; pp.223-229. [PDF, 301KB]
Sanjika Hewavitharana, Dennis
Mehay, Sankaranarayanan Ananthakrishnan, Rohit Kumar, John Makhoul: Anticipatory translation model adaptation
for bilingual conversations; pp.230-235. [PDF, 256KB]
Sariya Karimova, Patrick
Simianer, Stefan Riezler: Offline extraction
of overlapping phrases for hierarchical phrase-based translation;
pp.236-243. [PDF, 251KB]
Gaurav Kumar, Yuan Cao, Ryan
Cotterell, Chris Callison-Burch, Daniel Povey, Sanjeev Khudanpur: Translations of the Callhome Egyptian Arabic corpus for conversational speech translation;
pp.244-248. [PDF, 175KB]
Mohammed Mediani, Joshua
Winebarger, Alexander Waibel: Improving
in-domain data selection for small in-domain sets; pp.249-256. [PDF, 321KB]
Markus Müller, Sebastian
Stüker, Zaid Sheikh, Florian Metze, Alex Waibel: Multilingual
deep bottle neck features: a study on language selection and training
techniques; pp.257-264. [PDF, 162KB]
Graham Neubig, Katsuhiro
Sudoh, Yusuke Oda, Kevin Duh, Hajime Tsukuda, Masaaki Nagata: The NAIST-NTT TED talk treebank; pp.265-270.
[PDF, 453KB]
Stephan Peitz, Markus
Freitag, Hermann Ney: Better punctuation prediction
with hierarchical phrase-based translation; pp.271-278. [PDF, 221KB]
Ge Wu, Yuqi Zhang, Alexander
Waibel: Rule-based preordering on multiple
syntactic levels in statistical machine translation; pp.279-286. [PDF,
446KB]