| October 20, 2008 |
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| Workshop Opening |
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| 9:00 |
9:10 |
Welcome Remarks |
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| Invited Talk |
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| 09:10 |
10:10 |
Language Technology in Humanitarian Aid and Disaster Response |
| Scott HOURIN (U.S. Marine Corps Forces, USA) |
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coffee  break |
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| Evaluation Campaign : Overview |
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| 10:30 |
11:00 |
Overview of the IWSLT 2008 Evaluation Campaign |
| Michael PAUL |
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| Evaluation Campaign : Oral I |
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| 11:00 |
11:20 |
The TCH Machine Translation System for IWSLT 2008 |
| Haifeng WANG, Hua WU, Xiaoguang HU, Zhanyi LIU, Jianfeng LI, Dengjun REN, Zhengyu NIU |
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| 11:20 |
11:40 |
FBK @ IWSLT-2008 |
| Nicola BERTOLDI, Roldano CATTONI, Marcello FEDERICO, Madalina BARBAIANI |
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| 11:40 |
12:00 |
The NICT/ATR Speech Translation System for IWSLT 2008 |
| Masao UTIYAMA, Andrew FINCH, Hideo OKUMA, Michael PAUL, Hailong CAO, Hirofumi YAMAMOTO, Keiji YASUDA, Eiichiro SUMITA |
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| 12:00 |
12:20 |
I²R Multi-Pass Machine Translation System for IWSLT 2008 |
| Boxing CHEN, Deyi XIONG, Min ZHANG, Aiti AW, Haizhou LI |
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lunch  break |
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| Evaluation Campaign : Poster I |
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| 14:00 |
15:00 |
Exploiting Alignment Techniques in MaTrEx: the DCU Machine Translation System for IWSLT08 |
| Yanjun MA, John TINSLEY, Hany HASSAN, Jinhua DU, Andy WAY |
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| 14:00 |
15:00 |
The GREYC Machine Translation System for the IWSLT 2008 Evaluation Campaign |
| Yves LEPAGE, Adrien LARDILLEUX, Julien GOSME, Jean-Luc MANGUIN |
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| 14:00 |
15:00 |
The ICT System Description for IWSLT 2008 |
| Yang LIU, Zhongjun HE, Haitao MI, Yun HUANG, Yang FENG, Wenbin JIANG, Yajuan LU, Qun LIU |
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| 14:00 |
15:00 |
The LIG Arabic/English Speech Translation System at IWSLT08 |
| Laurent BESACIER, Atef Ben YOUSSEF, Herve BLANCHON |
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| Technical Paper : Oral I |
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| 15:00 |
15:25 |
Improving Statistical Machine Translation by Paraphrasing the Training Data |
| Francis BOND, Eric NICHOLS, Darren Scott APPLING, Michael PAUL |
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| 15:25 |
15:50 |
Investigations on Large-Scale Lightly-Supervised Training for Statistical Machine Translation |
| Holger SCHWENK |
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| 15:50 |
16:15 |
Analysing Soft Syntax Features and Heuristics for Hierarchical Phrase Based Machine Translation |
| David VILAR, Daniel STEIN, Hermann NEY |
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| 16:15 |
16:40 |
Improvements in Dynamic Programming Beam Search for Phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation |
| Richard ZENS, Hermann NEY |
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| Demo Reception (with Coffee Break) |
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| 16:40 |
18:00 |
(to be announced) |
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| October 21, 2008 |
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| Discussion Panel |
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| 09:20 |
10:20 |
(to be announced) |
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| coffee break |
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| Technical Paper : Oral II |
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| 10:40 |
11:05 |
Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation with Pivot Languages |
| Nicola BERTOLDI, Madalina BARBAIANI, Marcello FEDERICO, Roldano CATTONI |
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| 11:05 |
11:30 |
Rapid Development of an English/Farsi Speech-to-Speech Translation System |
| Chia-Lin KAO, Shirin SALEEM, Rohit PRASAD, Fred CHOI, Prem NATARAJAN, David STALLARD, Kriste KRSTOVSKI, Matin KAMALI |
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| 11:30 |
11:55 |
Evaluating Productivity Gains of Hybrid ASR-MT Systems for Translation Dictation |
| Alain DÉSILETS, Marta STOJANOVIC, Jean-Françoise LAPOINTE, Rick ROSE, Aarthi REDDY |
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| 11:55 |
12:20 |
Simultaneous German-English Lecture Translation |
| Muntsin KOLSS, Matthias WÖLFEL, Florian KRAFT, Jan NIEHUES, Matthias PAULIK, Alex WAIBEL |
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| lunch break |
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| Evaluation Campaign : Poster II |
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| 14:00 |
15:20 |
The LIUM Arabic/English Statistical Machine Translation System for IWSLT 2008 |
| Holger SCHWENK, Yannick ESTÈVE, Sadaf Abdul RAUF |
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| 14:00 |
15:20 |
NTT Statistical Machine Translation System for IWSLT 2008 |
| Katsuhito SUDOH, Taro WATANABE, Jun SUZUKI, Hajime TSUKADA, Hideki ISOZAKI |
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| 14:00 |
15:20 |
POSTECH Machine Translation System for IWSLT 2008 Evaluation Campaign |
| Jonghoon LEE, Gary Geunbae LEE |
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| 14:00 |
15:20 |
The QMUL System Description for IWSLT 2008 |
| Simon CARTER, Christof MONZ, Sirvan YAHYAEI |
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| 14:00 |
15:20 |
The TALP & I²R SMT Systems for IWSLT 2008 |
| Maxim KHALILOV, Marta R. COSTA-JUSSÀ, Carlos A. HENRÍQUEZ, José A. R. FONOLLOSA, Adolfo HERNÁNDEZ, José B. MARIÑO, Rafael E. BANCHS, Chen BOXING, Min ZHANG, Aiti AW, Haizhou LI |
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| 14:00 |
15:20 |
Statistical Machine Translation without Long Parallel Sentences for Training Data |
| Jin'ichi MURAKAMI, Masato TOKUHISA, Satoru IKEHARA |
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| 14:00 |
15:20 |
The TUBITAK-UEKAE Statistical Machine Translation System for IWSLT 2008 |
| Coskun MERMER, Hamza KAYA, Ömer Farukhan GÜNES, Mehmet Ugur DOGAN |
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| coffee break |
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| Evaluation Campaign : Oral II |
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| 15:40 |
16:00 |
The MIT-LL/AFRL IWSLT-2008 MT System |
| Wade SHEN, Brian DELANEY, Timothy ANDERSON, Raymond SLYH |
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| 16:00 |
16:20 |
The CMU Syntax-Augmented Machine Translation System: SAMT on Hadoop with N-best Alignments |
| Andreas ZOLLMANN, Ashish VENUGOPAL, Stephan VOGEL |
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| 16:20 |
16:40 |
The RWTH Machine Translation System for IWSLT 2008 |
| David VILAR, Daniel STEIN, Yuqi ZHANG, Evgeny MATUSOV, Arne MAUSER, Oliver BENDER, Saab MANSOUR, Hermann NEY |
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| 16:40 |
17:00 |
The CASIA Statistical Machine Translation System for IWSLT 2008 |
| Yanqing HE, Jiajun ZHANG, Maoxi LI, Licheng FANG, Yufeng CHEN, Yu ZHOU, Chengqing ZONG |
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| Banquet |
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| 17:30 |
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Leave for Banquet Dinner |
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| 18:30 |
20:30 |
Banquet Dinner at the Turtle Bay Resort |
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