21.2393, Calls: Comp Ling, Translation/France

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Subject: 21.2393, Calls: Comp Ling, Translation/France

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Date: 28-May-2010
From: Helene Mazo < mazo at elda.org >
Subject: 7th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation

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Subject: 7th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation

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Full Title: 7th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation 
Short Title: IWSLT 2010 

Date: 02-Dec-2010 - 03-Dec-2010
Location: Paris, France 
Contact Person: Joseph Mariani
Meeting Email: Joseph.Mariani at limsi.fr
Web Site: http://iwslt2010.fbk.eu/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Translation 

Call Deadline: 04-Sep-2010 

Meeting Description:

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 7th International Workshop on Spoken 
Language Translation will take place in Paris, France on 2-3 December 
2010. 

Call For Papers

The IWSLT invites submissions of scientific papers to be published in the 
workshop proceedings and presented in dedicated technical sessions of the 
workshop, either in oral or poster form. The workshop welcomes high 
quality contributions covering theoretical and practical issues in the field of 
machine translation (MT), in general, and spoken language translation 
(SLT), including Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Text-to-Speech 
Synthesis (TTS) and MT, in particular. Possible topics include, but are not 
limited to:

- Speech and text MT
- Integration of ASR and MT
- MT and SLT approaches
- MT and SLT evaluation
- Language resources for MT and SLT
- Open source software for MT and SLT
- Pivot-language-based MT
- Adaptation in MT
- Simultaneous speech translation
- Efficiency in MT
- Stream-based algorithms for MT
- Multilingual ASR and TTS

Submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by three members of the 
workshop program committee. Authors of accepted papers are requested to 
present their paper at the workshop.

Evaluation Campaign:
IWSLT evaluations are not organized for the sake of competition, but their 
goal is to foster cooperative work and scientific exchange. In this respect, 
IWSLT proposes challenging research tasks and an open experimental 
infrastructure for the scientific community working on spoken and written 
language translation. This year, the IWSLT evaluation campaign will offer 
three tasks:

- public speeches (talk) on a variety of topics, from English to French (new 
challenge),
- spoken dialogues (dialog) in travel situations, between Chinese and 
English,
- traveling expressions (BTEC), from Arabic, Turkish, and French to English.

For each task, monolingual and bilingual language resources will be 
provided to participants in order to train their translation systems, as well as 
sets of manual and automatic speech transcripts (with n-best and lattices) 
and reference translations, allowing researchers working only on written 
language translation to also participate. Moreover, blind test sets will be 
released and all translation outputs produced by the participants will be 
evaluated using several automatic translation quality metrics. Human 
assessment will be carried out for the translation of spoken dialogues and 
basic travel expressions.

The goal of this year's new challenge (translation of public speeches) will be
to establish reference baselines and appropriate evaluation protocols for 
future evaluations. As a consequence, although an evaluation server will be 
set-up to compute several translation accuracy metrics, there will be no 
official ranking of participants published by the organizers for this task.

Each participant in the evaluation campaign is requested to submit a paper
describing the MT system, the utilized resources, and results using the 
provided test data. Contrastive run submissions using only the bilingual 
resources provided by IWSLT as well as investigations of the contribution of 
each utilized resource are highly appreciated. Results feedback will be 
provided by the organizers a few days after the run submissions. Finally, all 
participants are requested to present their papers describing their MT 
systems at the workshop.

Important Dates:
Evaluation Campaign:

- Training corpus release: 28 May 2010
- Test corpus release: 23 August 2010
- Run submissions due (DIALOG, BTEC): 6 September 2010
- Run submissions due (TALK): 30 September 2010
- MT system description due: 14 October 2010
- Notification of acceptance: 29 October 2010
- Camera-ready paper due: 10 November 2010

Scientific Papers:
- Paper submission due: 4 September 2010
- Notification of acceptance: 16 October 2010
- Camera-ready paper due: 10 November 2010

Organizers:
IWSLT Steering Committee:

- Alex Waibel (CMU, USA / Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), 
Germany)
- Marcello Federico (FBK-irst, Italy)
- Satoshi Nakamura (NICT, Japan)

Chairs:
Workshop:
- Alex Waibel (CMU, USA / KIT, Germany)
- Joseph Mariani (LIMSI-CNRS & IMMI, France)

Evaluation Committee:
- Michael Paul (NICT, Japan)
- Marcello Federico (FBK-irst, Italy)

Program Committee:
- Ian Lane (CMU, USA)
- François Yvon (LIMSI-CNRS/U. Paris Sud 11, France)

Local Organizing Committee:
- Martine Garnier-Rizet (IMMI, Chair)
- Lynn Barreteau (IMMI)
- Joseph Mariani (LIMSI-CNRS & IMMI)
- Aurélien Max (LIMSI-CNRS/U. Paris Sud 11)
- Guillaume Wisniewski (LIMSI-CNRS/U. Paris Sud 11)

Program Committee:
- Alexandre Allauzen (LIMSI-CNRS/U. Paris Sud 11, France)
- Laurent Besacier (LIG, France)
- Arianna Bisazza (FBK-irst, Italy)
- Francisco Casacuberta (ITI-UPV, Spain)
- Boxing Chen (NRC, Canada)
- Mehmet U?ur Do?an (Tubitak-Uekae, Turkey)
- Matthias Eck (Mobile Technologies, USA)
- Philipp Koehn (Univ. Edinburgh, UK)
- Philippe Langlais (Univ. Montreal, Canada)
- Geunbae Lee (Postech, Korea)
- Yves Lepage (GREYC, France)
- Haizhou Li (I2R, Singapore)
- José B. Mariño (TALP-UPC, Spain)
- Coskun Mermer (Tubitak-Uekae, Turkey)
- Hermann Ney (RWTH, Germany)
- Hwee Tou Ng (NUS, Singapore)
- Matthias Paulik (CMU, USA)
- Holger Schwenk (LIUM, France)
- Wade Shen (MIT-LL, USA)
- Sebastian Stüker (KIT, Germany)
- Eiichiro Sumita (NICT, Japan)
- Hajime Tsukada (NTT, Japan)
- Haifeng Wang (Baidu, China)
- Andy Way (DCU, Ireland)
- Joy Zhang (CMU, USA)
- Chengqing Zong (CASIA, China)

For all information, please visit the IWSLT 2010 Web site: 
http://iwslt2010.fbk.eu

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