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Program


December 1, 2009

09:00 09:30 workshop registration

Workshop Opening
09:30 09:40 Welcome Remarks
Satoshi NAKAMURA (NICT, Japan)
Evaluation Campaign: "Overview Talk"
09:40 10:10 Overview of the IWSLT 2009 Evaluation Campaign
Michael PAUL (NICT, Japan)
coffee break
Evaluation Campaign: "Challenge Task"
10:30 11:00 Two methods for stabilizing MERT: NICT at IWSLT 2009
Masao UTIYAMA, Hirofumi YAMAMOTO, Eiichiro SUMITA (NICT, Japan)
11:00 11:30 Low-Resource Machine Translation Using MaTrEx: The DCU Machine Translation System for IWSLT 2009
Yanjun MA, Tsuyoshi OKITA, Özlem ÇETINOGLU, Jinhua DU, Andy WAY (Dublin City University, Ireland)
11:30 12:00 The CASIA Statistical Machine Translation System for IWSLT 2009
Maoxi LI, Jiajun ZHANG , Yu ZHOU, Chengqing ZONG (National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences; China)
lunch break
Invited Talk
13:00 14:00 Human Translation and Machine Translation
Philipp KOEHN (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Technical Paper: "Oral I"
14:00 14:30 Morphological Pre-Processing for Turkish to English Statistical Machine Translation
Arianna BISAZZA, Marcello FEDERICO (FBK-irst, Italy)
14:30 15:00 Enriching SCFG Rules Directly From Efficient Bilingual Chart Parsing
Martin CMEJREK, Bowen ZHOU, Bing XIANG (IBM, USA)
15:00 15:30 A Unified Framework for Phrase-Based, Hierarchical, and Syntax-Based Statistical Machine Translation
Hieu HOANG, Philipp KOEHN, Adam LOPEZ (Univ. Edinburgh, UK)
coffee break
Evaluation Campaign: "Poster I"
15:50 16:50 The TÜBITAK-UEKAE Statistical Machine Translation System for IWSLT 2009
Coskun MERMER, Hamza KAYA, Mehmet Ugur DOGAN (TÜBITAK-UEKAE, Turkey)
15:50 16:50 The UOT System: Improve String-to-Tree Translation Using Head-Driven Phrasal Structure Grammar and Predicate-Argument Structures
Xianchao WU, Takuya MATSUZAKI, Naoaki OKAZAKI, Yusuke MIYAO, Jun'ichi TSUJII (University of Tokyo, Japan)
15:50 16:50 The GREYC Translation Memory for the IWSLT2009 Evaluation Campaign: one step beyond translation memory
Yves LEPAGE, Adrien LARDILLEUX, Julien GOSME (University of Caen, France)
15:50 16:50 The ICT Statistical Machine Translation Systems for the IWSLT 2009
Haitao MI, Yang LIU, Tian XIA, Xinyan XIAO, Yang FENG, Jun XIE, Hao XIONG, Zhaopeng TU, Daqi ZHENG, Yanjuan LU, Qun LIU (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; China)
15:50 16:50 The University of Washington Machine Translation System for IWSLT 2009
Mei YANG, Amittai AXELROD, Kevin DUH, Katrin KIRCHHOFF (University of Washington, USA)
15:50 16:50 Statistical Machine Translation adding Pattern based Machine translation in Chinese-English Translation
Jin'ichi MURAKAMI, Masato TOKUHISA, Satoru IKEHARA (Tottori University, Japan)
Demo Session
16:50 17:20 Network-based Speech-to-Speech Translation
Chiori HORI, Sakriani SAKTI, Michael PAUL, Satoshi NAKAMURA (NICT, Japan)
Banquet
18:00 20:00 Restaurant "LA TERRE" (Miraikan, 7F)

December 2, 2009

09:00 09:30 workshop registration

Invited Talk
09:30 10:30 Two-way Speech-to-Speech Translation for Communicating Across Language Barriers
Premkumar NATARAJAN (BBN Technologies, USA)
coffee break
Technical Paper: "Oral II"
10:50 11:20 Structural Support Vector Machines for Log-Linear Approach in Statistical Machine Translation
Katsuhiko HAYASHI (University of Doshisha, Japan); Taro WATANABE, Hajime TSUKADA and Hideki ISOZAKI (NTT, Japan)
11:20 11:50 Online Language Model Adaptation for Spoken Dialog Translation
Germán SANCHIS-TRILLES (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain); Mauro CETTOLO, Nicola BERTOLDI, Marcello FEDERICO (FBK-irst, Italy)
lunch break
Invited Talk
13:00 14:00 Monolingual Knowledge Acquisition and a Multilingual Information Environment
Kentaro TORISAWA (NICT, Japan)
Evaluation Campaign: "Poster II"
14:00 15:00 AppTek Turkish-English Machine Translation System Description for IWSLT 2009
Selçuk KÖPRÜ (Apptek Inc., Turkey)
14:00 15:00 LIG approach for IWSLT09 : Using Multiple Morphological Segmenters for Spoken Language Translation of Arabic
Fethi BOUGARES, Laurent BESACIER, Hervé BLANCHON (LIG, France)
14:00 15:00 Barcelona Media SMT system description for the IWSLT 2009: introducing source context information
Marta R. COSTA-JUSSA, Rafael E. BANCHS (Barcelona Media, Spain)
14:00 15:00 FBK @ IWSLT-2009
Nicola BERTOLDI, Arianna BISAZZA, Mauro CETTOLO, Marcello FEDERICO (FBK-irst, Italy); Germán SANCHIS-TRILLES (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)
14:00 15:00 LIUM's Statistical Machine Translation Systems for IWSLT 2009
Holger SCHWENK, Loïc BARRAULT, Yannick ESTÈVE, Patrik LAMBER (University of le Mans, France)
14:00 15:00 I²R's Machine Translation System for IWSLT 2009
Xiangyu DUAN, Deyi XIONG, Hui ZHANG, Min ZHANG, Haizhou LI (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)
coffee break
Evaluation Campaign: "BTEC Task"
15:20 15:50 The NUS Statistical Machine Translation System for IWSLT 2009
Preslav NAKOV, Chang LIU, Wei LU, Hwee Tou NG (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
15:50 16:20 The UPV Translation System for IWSLT 2009
Guillem GASCÓ, Joan Andreu SÁNCHEZ (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)
16:20 16:50 The MIT-LL/AFRL System for IWSLT 2009
Wade SHEN, Brian DELANEY, Arya Ryan AMINZADEH (MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA); Timothy ANDERSON, Raymond SLYH (Air Force Research Laboratory, USA)
Workshop Closing
16:50 17:00 Closing Remarks
Marcello FEDERICO (FBK-irst, Italy)