http://www.iwslt2011.org/ 2012-05-20T00:47:05+02:00 http://www.iwslt2011.org/ http://www.iwslt2011.org/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2012-01-30T08:25:05+02:00 http://www.iwslt2011.org/doku.php?id=001_iwslt_2012&rev=1327908305&do=diff text/html 2012-01-30T08:18:58+02:00 http://www.iwslt2011.org/doku.php?id=01_what_s_new&rev=1327907938&do=diff * October 15, 2011: Early registration to the IWSLT 2011 workshop is open. * September 27, 2011: Extension of Paper Submission Deadline: October 09 2011 * July 24, 2011: Dr. Sadaoki Furui, Tokyo Institute of Technology accepted to give a key-note speech * July 14, 2011: Dr. Junichi Tsujii, Microsoft Research Asia accepted to give key-note speech * July 14, 2011: Microsoft Research sponsors best student paper and the best system paper awards * July 12, 2011: Paper submissi… text/html 2011-07-06T03:50:24+02:00 http://www.iwslt2011.org/doku.php?id=02_call&rev=1309917024&do=diff The International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT) is a yearly scientific workshop, associated with an open evaluation campaign on spoken language translation, where both scientific papers and system descriptions are presented. The 8th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation will take place in downtown San Francisco, USA on 8-9 December 2011. text/html 2011-11-14T00:02:31+02:00 http://www.iwslt2011.org/doku.php?id=03_venue&rev=1321225351&do=diff The workshop will take place at Hilton San Francisco Union Square 333 O'Farrell Street | San Francisco CA 94102 Special single room rate for IWSLT participants is: 159,-$ per night (extra person is +20,-$). Online-Reservation under: http://www.hilton.com/en/hi/groups/personalized/S/SFOFHHH-SLT-20111207/index.jhtml text/html 2011-11-10T17:31:37+02:00 http://www.iwslt2011.org/doku.php?id=04_important_dates&rev=1320942697&do=diff Scientific Papers: Paper Submission system opens: July 01, 2011 Full-paper submission due: Extension: October 09, 2011 Notification of Acceptance: October 31, 2011 Camera-ready paper due: Technical Papers System Papers November 11, 2011 November 14, 2001 Workshop: December 8-9, 2011 Registration: Registration opens: July 01, 2011 text/html 2011-10-10T11:54:24+02:00 http://www.iwslt2011.org/doku.php?id=05_submission&rev=1318240464&do=diff Paper submission is now open! Submissions of Technical Papers and MT System Descriptions must be done electronically in PDF format through the following submission server: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwslt2011 Authors are strongly encouraged to use the here provided [LaTeX style files] or [MS Word] equivalent. text/html 2011-10-16T09:40:24+02:00 http://www.iwslt2011.org/doku.php?id=06_evaluation&rev=1318750824&do=diff IWSLT proposes challenging research tasks and an open experimental infrastructure for the scientific community working on spoken and written language translation. The IWSLT 2011 Evaluation Campaign will focus on the translation of TED Talks, a collection of public speeches on a variety of topics. Four tracks are proposed addressing different research tasks: text/html 2011-10-16T09:41:30+02:00 http://www.iwslt2011.org/doku.php?id=071_evaluation_server&rev=1318750890&do=diff We setup an evaluation server for the IWSLT 2011 development and evaluation data sets of each track: * devset IWSLT 2010 : https://mastarpj.nict.go.jp/EVAL/IWSLT11/automatic/devset_IWSLT10 * testset IWSLT 2010 : https://mastarpj.nict.go.jp/EVAL/IWSLT11/automatic/testset_IWSLT10 * testset IWSLT 2011 : https://mastarpj.nict.go.jp/EVAL/IWSLT11/automatic/testset_IWSLT11 text/html 2012-02-02T14:58:38+02:00 http://www.iwslt2011.org/doku.php?id=073_bestpaperaward&rev=1328191118&do=diff IWSLT 2011 awarded for the first time the best student paper and the best system paper. Both wards are endowed by Microsoft Research. Best Student Paper: Fill-up versus Interpolation Methods for Phrase-based SMT Adaptation, Arianna Bisazza, Nick Ruiz, Marcello Federico, text/html 2011-12-09T18:36:21+02:00 http://www.iwslt2011.org/doku.php?id=075_key_note&rev=1323452181&do=diff We are glad to announce the following key note speeches @ IWSLT 2011, supported by the Quaero programme and IMMI-CNRS (France): * Dr. Sadaoki Furui, Tokyo Institute of Technology: Data-intensive approaches for ASR * Dr. Junichi Tsujii, Microsoft Research Asia: Resource-rich Research on Natural Language Processing and Understanding * Dr. Daniel Marcu, University of Southern California: Meaning-Equivalent Semantics for Understanding, Generation, Translation, and Evaluation text/html 2012-02-02T10:04:43+02:00 http://www.iwslt2011.org/doku.php?id=07_program&rev=1328173483&do=diff Thursday, December 8th, 2011 08:30-09:15h Workshop Registration 09:15-09:30h [Welcome Remarks] - Alex Waibel 09:30-10:15h Prof. Junichi Tsujii - Resource-rich Research on Natural Language Processing and Understanding 10:15-10:35h Coffee Break 10:35-12:00h Evaluation Campaign I 10:35-11:20h Main Findings of the Evaluation Campaign - Marcello Federico 11:20-11:40h The MIT-LL/AFRL IWSLT-2011 MT System A. Ryan Aminzadeh, Wade Shen and Timothy Anderson 11:40-12:00h LIUM’s systems for the IWSLT 20… text/html 2012-02-02T09:48:47+02:00 http://www.iwslt2011.org/doku.php?id=08_proceedings&rev=1328172527&do=diff Here is the proceedings of the workshop for download as a PDF. text/html 2012-03-21T10:09:30+02:00 http://www.iwslt2011.org/doku.php?id=09_presentations&rev=1332320970&do=diff Evaluation Campaign I [Main Findings of the Evaluation Campaign I] Marcello Federico [LIUM’s systems for the IWSLT 2011 Speech Translation Tasks] Anthony Rousseau, Fethi Bougares, Paul Deléglise, Holger Schwenk and Yannick Estève [Speech Recognition for Machine Translation in Quaero] Lori Lamel, Sandrine Courcinous, Julien Despres, Jean-Luc Gauvain, Yvan Josse, Kevin Kilgour, Florian Kraft, Le Viet Bac, Hermann Ney, Markus Nußbaum-Thom, Ilya Oparin, Tim Schlippe, Ralf Schlüter, Tanja Schultz… text/html 2011-11-08T20:34:35+02:00 http://www.iwslt2011.org/doku.php?id=10_registration&rev=1320780875&do=diff The registration for the IWSLT 2011 is now open! The registration procedure(*) takes place in two steps: 1. User account creation 2. Registration as conference participant In order to achieve registration, please access the registration site, and fill out the registration form. text/html 2011-11-29T13:11:19+02:00 http://www.iwslt2011.org/doku.php?id=12_organizers&rev=1322568679&do=diff Steering Committee * Marcello Federico (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy) * Eiichiro Sumita (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan) * Alex Waibel (Carnegie Mellon University, USA & Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) text/html 2011-12-04T14:38:15+02:00 http://www.iwslt2011.org/doku.php?id=13_acknowledgments&rev=1323005895&do=diff Sponsors * [] * [] Institute for Multilingual and Multimedia Information * [] * [] Supporting projects * [] The European project * [] The European Network of Excellence Supporting organizations * [] National Institute of Communication and Information Technology, Japan * [] Fondazione Bruno Kessler - IRST, Italy * [] Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany * [] text/html 2011-07-21T18:29:35+02:00 http://www.iwslt2011.org/doku.php?id=14_related_events&rev=1311265775&do=diff Related conferences/workshops: * 15th Annual Conference of the European Assoc. for Machine Translation, 30-31 May, 2011 - Leuven, Belgium. * 6th Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation and Metrics MATR, 30-31 Jul. 2011 - Edinburgh, UK. * 3rd International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue System Technology, 1-3 Sep. 2011 - Granada, Spain. * 6th Machine Translation Marathon, 5-10 Sept. 2011, Trento, Italy. * 12th Annual Conf. of the International Speech Communication Association, … text/html 2011-07-08T18:35:13+02:00 http://www.iwslt2011.org/doku.php?id=15_contact&rev=1310142913&do=diff Please do not hesitate to contact us concerning ANY questions around IWSLT. We are happy to assist! Program: Mei-Yuh Hwang, Microsoft Research Sebastian Stüker, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology E-mail: technical-program@iwslt2011.org Local arrangements and general organisational questions: text/html 2011-08-22T12:05:42+02:00 http://www.iwslt2011.org/doku.php?id=start&rev=1314007542&do=diff