Interspeech 2004: ICSLP Satellite Workshop

International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation

Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation

 

September 30 – October 1, 2004

ATR Spoken Language Translation Research Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan.

 

Proceedings

 

Evaluation campaign

 

Yasuhiro Akiba, Marcello Federico, Noriko Kando, Hiromi Nakaiwa, Michael Paul, Jun’ichi Tsujii: Overview of the IWSLT04 evaluation campaign... 1-12

 

Eiichiro Sumita, Yasuhiro Akiba, Takao Doi, Andrew Finch, Kenji Imamura, Hideo Okuma, Michael Paul, Mitsuo Shimohata & Taro Watanabe: EBMT, SMT, hybrid and more: ATR spoken language translation system. ... 13-20

 

Herve Blanchon, Christian Boitet, Francis Brunet-Manquat, Mutsuko Tomokiyo, Agnes Hamon, Vo Trung Hung & Youcef Bey: Towards fairer evaluations of commercial MT systems on basic travel expressions corpora. ... 21-26

 

Yang Muyun, Zhao Tiejun, Liu Haijie, Shi Xiasheng & Jiang Hongfei: Auto word alignment based Chinese-English EBMT. ... 27-29

 

Philippe Langlais, Michael Carl & Oliver Streiter: Experimenting with phrase-based statistical translation within the IWSLT 2004 Chinese-to-English shared translation task. ... 31-38

 

Young-Suk Lee & Salim Roukos: IBM spoken language translation system evaluation. ... 39-46

 

Hou Hongxu, Deng Dan, Zou Gang, Yu Hongkui, Liu Yang, Xiong Deyi & Liu Qun: An EBMT system based on word alignment. ... 47-49

 

Nicola Bertoldi, Roldano Cattoni, Mauro Cettolo & Marcello Federico: The ITC-irst statistical machine translation system for IWSLT-2004. ... 51-58

 

Emil Ettelaie, Kevin Knight, Daniel Marcu, Dragos Stefan Munteanu, Franz J. Och, Ignacio Thayer & Quamrul Tipu: The ISI/USC MT system. ... 59-60

 

Juergen Reichert & Alex Waibel: The ISL EDTRL system. ... 61-64

 

Stephan Vogel, Sanjika Hewavitharana, Muntsin Kolss & Alex Waibel: The ISL statistical translation system for spoken language translation.  ... 65-72

 

Yuncun Zuo, Yu Zhou & Chengqing Zong: Multi-engine based Chinese-to-English translation system. ... 73-77

 

Oliver Bender, Richard Zens, Evgeny Matusov & Hermann Ney: Alignment templates: the RWTH SMT system. ... 79-84

 

Adria de Gispert & Jose B. Marino: TALP: Xgram-based spoken language translation system. ... 85-90

 

Eiji Aramaki & Sadao Kurohashi: Example-based machine translation using structural translation examples. ... 91-94

 

Technical papers

 

Herve Blanchon, Christian Boitet & Laurent Besacier: Spoken dialogue translation systems evaluation: results, new trends, problems and proposals. ... 95-102

 

Mauro Cettolo & Marcello Federico: Minimum error training of log-linear translation models. ... 103-106

 

Adria de Gispert, Jose B. Marino & Josep M. Crego: Phrase-based alignment combining corpus cooccurrences and linguistic knowledge. ... 107-114

 

Liang Gu & Yuqing Gao: On feature selection in maximum entropy approach to statistical concept-based speech-to-speech translation. ... 115-121

 

Najeh Hajlaoui & Christian Boitet: PolyphraZ: a tool for the quantitative and subjective evaluation of parallel corpora. ... 123-129

 

Fei Huang, Stephan Vogel & Alex Waibel: Toward named entity extraction and translation in spoken language translation. ... 131-137

 

Evgeny Matusov, Maja Popovic, Richard Zens & Hermann Ney: Statistical machine translation of spontaneous speech with scarce resources. ... 139-146

 

Satoshi Nakamura, Konstantin Markov, Takatoshi Jitsuhiro, Jin-Song Zhang, Hirofumi Yamamoto & Genichiro Kikui: Multi-lingual speech recognition system for speech-to-speech translation. ... 146-154