| November 27, 2006 | ||
| Workshop Opening | ||
| 9:15 | 9:20 | Address of Welcome |
| Satoshi NAKAMURA | ||
| 9:20 | 9:50 | Overview of the IWSLT06 Evaluation Campaign |
| Michael PAUL | ||
| Best Paper Award (chair: Satoshi NAKAMURA) | ||
| 09:50 | 10:20 | The RWTH Statistical Machine Translation System for the IWSLT 2006 Evaluation |
| Arne MAUSER, Richard ZENS, Evgeny MATUSOV, Sasa HASAN, Hermann NEY | ||
coffee  break |
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| Evaluation Campaign I (chair: Chengqing ZONG) | ||
| 10:40 | 11:00 | The NiCT-ATR Statistical Machine Translation System for IWSLT 2006 |
| Ruiqiang ZHANG, Hirofumi YAMAMOTO, Michael PAUL, Hideo OKUMA, Keiji YASUDA, Yves LEPAGE, Etienne DENOUAL, Daichi MOCHIHASHI, Andrew FINCH, Eiichiro SUMITA | ||
| 11:00 | 11:20 | NTT Statistical Machine Translation for IWSLT 2006 |
| Taro WATANABE, Jun SUZUKI, Hajime TSUKADA, Hideki ISOZAKI | ||
| 11:20 | 11:40 | The UKA/CMU Statistical Machine Translation System for IWSLT 2006 |
| Matthias ECK, Ian LANE, Nguyen BACH, Sanjika HEWAVITHARANA, Muntsin KOLSS, Bing ZHAO, Almut Silja HILDEBRAND, Stephan VOGEL, Alex WAIBEL | ||
| 11:40 | 12:00 | The ITC-irst SMT System for IWSLT 2006 |
| Boxing CHEN, Roldano CATTONI, Nicola BERTOLDI, Mauro CETTOLO, Marcello FEDERICO | ||
lunch  break |
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| Invited Talk (chair: Satoshi NAKAMURA) | ||
| 13:30 | 14:30 | TC-STAR: a Speech to Speech Translation Project |
| Gianni LAZZARI (ITC-irst, Italy) | ||
| Evaluation Campaign II (chair: Matthias ECK) | ||
| 14:30 | 14:50 | Toward Integrating Word Sense and Entity Disambiguation into Statistical Machine Translation |
| Marine CARPUAT, Yihai SHEN, Xiaofeng YU, Dekai WU | ||
| 14:50 | 15:10 | The TALP Ngram-based SMT System for IWSLT 2006 |
| Josep M. CREGO, Adrià de GISPERT, Patrik LAMBERT, Maxim KHALILOV, Marta R. COSTA-JUSSÀ, José B. MARIÑO, Rafael BANCHS, José A.R. FONOLLOSA | ||
| 15:10 | 15:30 | TALP Phrase-Based System and TALP System Combination for IWSLT 2006 |
| Marta R. COSTA-JUSSÀ, Josep M. CREGO, Adrià de GISPERT, Patrik LAMBERT, Maxim KHALILOV, José A.R. FONOLLOSA, José B. MARIÑO, Rafael BANCHS | ||
| 15:30 | 15:50 | The MIT-LL/AFRL IWSLT-2006 MT System |
| Wade SHEN, Brian DELANEY, Tim ANDERSON | ||
| coffee break |
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| Technical Paper I (chair: Marcello FEDERICO) | ||
| 16:10 | 16:30 | Automatic Sentence Segmentation and Punctuation Prediction for Spoken Language Translation |
| Evgeny MATUSOV, Arne MAUSER, Hermann NEY | ||
| 16:30 | 16:50 | Continuous Space Language Models for the IWSLT 2006 Task |
| Holger SCHWENK, Marta R. COSTA-JUSSÀ and José A. R. FONOLLOSA | ||
| 16:50 | 17:10 | Using Monolingual Source-Language Data to Improve MT Performance |
| Nicola UEFFING | ||
| 17:10 | 17:30 | Reordering Rules for Phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation |
| Boxing CHEN, Mauro CETTOLO, Marcello FEDERICO | ||
| Banquet | ||
| 18:00 | bus transfer from the workshop venue to the banquet venue | |
| 19:00 | 21:30 | restaurant "The Garden Oriental" (Garden Terrace) |
| 21:30 | bus transfer to Kyoto station OR night-spot activities located nearby (15 min. walk) |
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| November 28, 2006 | ||
| Technical Paper II (chair: Genichiro KIKUI) | ||
| 09:00 | 09:20 | Tuning Machine Translation Parameters with SPSA |
| Patrik LAMBERT, Rafael E. BANCHS | ||
| 09:20 | 09:40 | An Efficient Graph Search Decoder for Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation |
| Brian DELANEY, Wade SHEN, Timothy ANDERSON | ||
| 09:40 | 10:00 | AER: Do we need to "improve" our alignments? |
| David VILAR, Maja POPOVIC, Hermann NEY | ||
| coffee break |
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| Evaluation Campaign III (chair: Eiichiro SUMITA) | ||
| 10:20 | 10:40 | The JHU Workshop 2006 IWSLT System |
| Wade SHEN, Richard ZENS, Nicola BERTOLDI, Marcello FEDERICO | ||
| 10:40 | 11:00 | The XMU Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation System for IWSLT 2006 |
| Yidong CHEN, Xiaodong SHI, Changle ZHOU | ||
| 11:00 | 11:20 | Finite-State Transducer-based Statistical Machine Translation using Joint Probabilities |
| Srinivas BANGALORE, Stephan KANTHAK, Patrick HAFFNER | ||
| 11:20 | 11:40 | The CMU-UKA Syntax Augmented Machine Translation System for IWSLT-06 |
| Andreas ZOLLMANN, Ashish VENUGOPAL, Stephan VOGEL, Alex WAIBEL | ||
| 11:40 | 12:00 | IWSLT-06: experiments with commercial MT systems and lessons from subjective evaluations |
| Christian BOITET, Youcef BEY, Mutsuko TOMOKIYO, Wenjie CAO, Hervé BLANCHON | ||
| lunch break |
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| Invited Talk (chair: Alex WAIBEL) | ||
| 13:30 | 14:30 | Recent Results on MT Evaluation in the GALE Program |
| Salim ROUKOS (IBM, US) | ||
| Evaluation Campaign IV (chair: Hervé BLANCHON) | ||
| 14:30 | 14:50 | NLPR Translation System for IWSLT 2006 Evaluation Campaign |
| Chunguang CHAI, Jinhua DU, Wei WEI, Peng Liu,Keyan ZHOU, Yanqing HE, Chengqing ZONG | ||
| 14:50 | 15:10 | The SLE Example-Based Translation System |
| Pete Whitelock, Victor Poznanski | ||
| 15:10 | 15:30 | Phrase Reordering for Statistical Machine Translation Based on Predicate-Argument Structure |
| Mamoru KOMACHI, Masaaki NAGATA, Yuji MATSUMOTO | ||
| 15:30 | 15:50 | Example-based Machine Translation based on Deeper NLP |
| Toshiaki NAKAZAWA, Kun YU, Daisuke KAWAHARA, Sadao KUROHASHI | ||
| coffee break |
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| Evaluation Campaign V (chair: Youngjik LEE) | ||
| 16:10 | 16:30 | IBM Arabic-to-English Translation for IWSLT 2006 |
| Young-Suk LEE | ||
| 16:30 | 16:50 | The University of Washington Machine Translation System for IWSLT 2006 |
| Katrin KIRCHHOFF, Kevin DUH, Chris LIM | ||
| 16:50 | 17:10 | MATREX: DCU Machine Translation System for IWSLT 2006 |
| Nicolas STROPPA, Andy WAY | ||
| Demonstration | ||
| 17:10 | 17:30 | Speech-to-Speech Translation Technologies @ ATR-SLC |
| Satoshi NAKAMURA | ||
| Open Discussion | ||
| 17:30 | 18:20 | Speech Translation - Where is the Progress? What are the Challenges?" |
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[moderator] Stephan VOGEL (CMU, USA) [panelists] Mike DILLINGER (Spoken Translation, USA), Marcello FEDERICO (ITC-irst, Italy), Ruiqiang ZHANG (NICT/ATR, Japan) |
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| Workshop Closing | ||
| 18:20 | 18:30 | Closing Remarks |
| Marcello FEDERICO | ||