---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sebastian Stüker <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 3:38 PM Subject: [Iwslt2013info] IWSLT 2013 - Call for Participation To: [email protected]
Dear all, this December we will have the 10th installation of IWSLT – the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation. This year's anniversary workshop will again feature an exciting evaluation campaign, as well as the opportunity to present scientific work at the workshop. We are looking forward to welcoming you all in beautiful Heidelberg this December. Below you will find the detailed call for participation. All information is also available on the workshop's website: http://www.iwslt2013.org Best Sebastian * * Call for Participation The International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT) is a yearly scientific workshop, associated with an open evaluation campaign on spoken language translation, where both scientific papers and system descriptions are presented. The 10th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation will take place in Heidelberg, Germany on December 5-6, 2013. *Evaluation Campaign* The IWSLT 2013 Evaluation Campaign will focus on the translation of TED Talks, a collection of public speeches on a variety of topics. The evaluation campaign will include the following tracks: *ASR track: * automatic transcription of talks from audio to text *Languages*: English and German * **Input format: * unsegmented SPHERE *Output format:* CTM, no case, no punctuation, UTF8 *SLT track: * speech translation of talks from audio (or ASR output) to text *Input format:* unsegmented SPHERE, or ASR output *Directions:* Official: English -> French, German -> English, English -> German Optional: English-> Spanish, Portuguese (B), Italian, Chinese, Polish, Slovenian, Arabic *Output format:* NIST XML format, true case with punctuation *MT track : * text translation of talks for two language pairs plus eleven optional language pairs: *Input format:* NIST XML format, true case with punctuation *Directions:* Official: English -> French, German -> English, English -> German Optional: English <-> Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese (B), Italian, Chinese, Polish, Slovenian, Turkish, Dutch, Romanian, Russian * Output format:* NIST XML format, true case with punctuation *Evaluation methods:* *- ASR track:* word or character error rate *- SLT/MT: *BLEU (all directions) and subjective metrics (official directions) Training of MT systems and language models for ASR is constrained to data supplied by the organizers. Supplied training, development, and test data will be available under the workshop’s webpage. *Important dates: * · Jun 8, 2013 : Release of TRAIN and DEV data · Aug 19-25, 2013 : Dry run ASR track · Sep 2-7, 2013 : TEST period ASR track · Sep 16-22, 2013 : TEST period SLT track (official directions) · Sep 23-29, 2013 : TEST period MT track (official directions) · Oct 1-31, 2013 : TEST period MT/SLT track (optional directions) · Oct 18, 2013 : System description paper due · Nov 8, 2013 : Review feedback · Nov 18, 2013 : Camera-ready paper due · Dec 5-6, 2013 : Workshop *Scientific Papers* The IWSLT invites submissions of scientific papers to be published in the workshop proceedings and presented in dedicated technical sessions of the workshop, either in oral or poster form. The workshop welcomes high quality contributions covering theoretical and practical issues in the fields of automatic speech recognition and machine translation that are applied to spoken language translation. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: • · Speech and text MT • · Integration of ASR and MT • · MT and SLT approaches • · MT and SLT evaluation • · Language resources for MT and SLT • · Open source software for MT and SLT • · Adaptation in MT • · Simultaneous speech translation • · Speech translation of lectures • · Spoken language summarization • · Efficiency in MT • · Stream-based algorithms for MT • · Multilingual ASR and TTS • · Rich transcription of speech for MT • · Translation of on-verbal events • · IWSLT 2013 review process is double-blind. Submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed. Authors of accepted papers are requested to present their paper at the workshop. *Contact, Evaluation Chair* Marcello Federico, FBK, [email protected] Sebastian Stüker, KIT, [email protected] _______________________________________________ Iwslt2013info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ira.uni-karlsruhe.de/mailman/listinfo/iwslt2013info
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