| September 30, 2004 | ||
| Workshop Opening | ||
| 8:50 | 9:00 | Address of Welcome |
| Seiichi YAMAMOTO | ||
| 9:00 | 9:45 | Overview of the IWSLT04 Evaluation Campaign |
| Yasuhiro AKIBA, Marcello FEDERICO, Noriko KANDO, Hiromi NAKAIWA, Michael PAUL, Jun'ichi TSUJII | ||
coffee  break |
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| Evaluation Campaign : "Statistical MT" (chair: Chengqing ZONG) | ||
| 10:00 | 10:25 | "The ISL Statistical Translation System for Spoken Language Translation" |
| Stephan VOGEL, Sanjika HEWAVITHARANA, Muntsin KOLSS and Alex WAIBEL | ||
| 10:25 | 10:50 | "IBM Spoken Language Translation System Evaluation" |
| Young-Suk LEE and Salim ROUKOS | ||
| 10:50 | 11:15 | "The ISI/USC MT System" |
| Emil ETTELAIE, Kevin KNIGHT, Daniel MARCU, Dragos Stefan MUNTEANU, Franz J. OCH, Ignacio THAYER and Quamrul TIPU | ||
| 11:15 | 11:40 | "The ITC-irst Statistical Machine Translation System for IWSLT-2004" |
| Nicola BERTOLDI, Roldano CATTONI, Mauro CETTOLO and Marcello FEDERICO | ||
| 11:40 | 12:05 | "Alignment Templates: the RWTH SMT System" |
| Oliver BENDER, Richard ZENS, Evgeny MATUSOV and Hermann NEY | ||
| 12:05 | 12:30 | "TALP: Xgram-based Spoken Language Translation System" |
| Adria DE GISPERT and Jose B. MARINO | ||
| lunch break |
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| Invited Talk (chair: Gianni LAZZARI) | ||
| 13:30 | 14:30 | The Statistical Approach to Spoken Language Translation |
| Hermann Ney | ||
| coffee break |
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| Evaluation Campaign "Example-based and Rule-based MT"(chair: Stephan VOGEL) | ||
| 14:45 | 15:10 | "Auto Word Alignment Based Chinese-English EBMT" |
| YANG Muyun, ZHAO Tiejun, LIU Haijie, SHI Xiasheng and JIANG Hongfei | ||
| 15:10 | 15:35 | "Example-based Machine Translation using Structural Translation Examples" |
| Eiji ARAMAKI and Sadao KUROHASHI | ||
| 15:35 | 16:00 | "An EBMT System Based on Word Alignment" |
| HOU Hongxu, DENG Dan, ZOU Gang, YU Hongkui, LIU Yang, XIONG Deyi and LIU Qun | ||
| 16:00 | 16:25 | "Towards Fairer Evaluations of Commercial MT Systems on Basic Travel Expressions Corpora" |
| Herve BLANCHON, Christian BOITET, Francis BRUNET-MANQUAT, Mutsuko TOMOKIYO, Agnes HAMON, Vo Trung HUNG and Youcef BEY | ||
| Banquet | ||
| 16:40 | 17:30 | bus transfer from the workshop venue to the banquet venue |
| 17:30 | 19:30 | restaurant "NOU" (located at the 1F of the Nara-ken New Public Hall ) |
| October 1, 2004 | ||
| Technical Paper : Session 1 (chair: Noriko KANDO) | ||
| 09:00 | 09:25 | "Multi-Lingual Speech Recognition System for Speech-To-Speech Translation" |
| Satoshi NAKAMURA, Konstantin MARKOV, Takatoshi JITSUHIRO, Jin-Song ZHANG, Hirofumi YAMAMOTO and Genichiro KIKUI | ||
| 09:25 | 09:50 | "Minimum Error Training of Log-Linear Translation Models" |
| Mauro CETTOLO and Marcello FEDERICO | ||
| 09:50 | 10:15 | "On Feature Selection in Maximum Entropy Approach to Statistical Concept-based Speech-to-Speech Translation" |
| Liang GU and Yuqing GAO | ||
| 10:15 | 10:40 | "Statistical Machine Translation of Spontaneous Speech with Scarce Resources" |
| Evgeny MATUSOV, Maja POPOVIC, Richard ZENS and Hermann NEY | ||
| coffee break |
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| Evaluation Campaign : "Hybrid MT" (chair: Youngjik LEE) | ||
| 10:55 | 11:20 | "EBMT, SMT, Hybrid and More: ATR Spoken Language Translation System" |
| Eiichiro SUMITA, Yasuhiro AKIBA, Takao DOI, Andrew FINCH, Kenji IMAMURA, Hideo OKUMA, Michael PAUL, Mitsuo SHIMOHATA and Taro WATANABE | ||
| 11:20 | 11:45 | "Multi-Engine Based Chinese-to-English Translation System" |
| Yuncun ZUO, Yu ZHOU and Chengqing ZONG | ||
| 11:45 | 12:10 | "Experimenting with Phrase-Based Statistical Translation within the IWSLT 2004 Chinese-to-English Shared Translation Task" |
| Philippe LANGLAIS, Michael CARL and Oliver STREITER | ||
| 12:10 | 12:35 | "The ISL EDTRL System" |
| Juergen REICHERT and Alex WAIBEL | ||
| lunch break |
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| Invited Talk (chair: Herve BLANCHON) | ||
| 13:30 | 14:30 | How long will we be able to ignore linguistic knowledge and their formalisms? |
| Jun'ichi TSUJII | ||
| coffee break |
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| Technical Paper : Session 2 (chair: Satoshi NAKAMURA) | ||
| 14:45 | 15:10 | "Phrase-based alignment combining corpus cooccurrences and linguistic knowledge" |
| Adria DE GISPERT, Jose B. MARINO and Josep M. CREGO | ||
| 15:10 | 15:35 | "Toward Named Entity Extraction and Translation in Spoken Language Translation" |
| Fei HUANG, Stephan VOGEL and Alex WAIBEL | ||
| 15:35 | 16:00 | "Spoken Dialogue Translation Systems Evaluation: Results, New Trends, Problems and Proposals" |
| Herve BLANCHON, Christian BOITET and Laurent BESACIER | ||
| 16:00 | 16:25 | "PolyphraZ : a tool for the quantitative and subjective evaluation of parallel corpora" |
| Najeh HAJLAOUI and Christian BOITET | ||
| coffee break |
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| Open Discussion | ||
| 16:40 | 17:40 | "Toward the Evaluation of Speech Translation" |
| Marcello FEDERICO (ITC-irst) [moderator] Young-suk LEE (IBM) Hermann NEY (RWTH) Stephan VOGEL (CMU) |
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| Workshop Closing | ||
| 17:40 | 17:50 | Closing Remarks |
| Hiromi NAKAIWA | ||