Dear all, This is a gentle reminder that the deadline to submit task proposals <https://iwslt.org/assets/pdfs/IWSLT2025-Call_for_Tasks.pdf> for next year's IWSLT edition is *September 30, 2024*. We are looking forward to interesting proposals.
On Mon, Sep 2, 2024 at 12:29 PM Atul Kr. Ojha <shashwatu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear all, > > The International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT) is the > premier annual conference for all aspects of Spoken Language Translation. > Every year, the conference organizes and sponsors open evaluation campaigns > around key challenges in simultaneous and consecutive translation, under > real-time/low latency or offline conditions, and for a variety of languages > in under-resourced or multilingual conditions. System descriptions and > results from participants’ systems and scientific papers related to key > algorithmic advances and best practices are presented. > > IWSLT is the venue of the SIGSLT, the Special Interest Group on Spoken > Language Translation of ACL, ISCA, and ELRA. With a track record of 20+ > years, IWSLT benchmarks and proceedings serve as a reference for all > researchers and practitioners working on speech translation and related > fields. > > There are many challenges in speech translation that have not yet been > addressed, among them, we are really interested in topics related to new > applications scenarios (e.g. meetings, subtitling, dubbing), specific > aspects (e.g. names, accents), different styles, multilingually, discourse > and summarization, multimodal and multi-party speech translation, automatic > evaluation metrics for speech translation. or many other ideas that > researchers have not yet focused on. Therefore, we invite proposals for > *shared > tasks*. > > If you want to propose a new task to encourage researchers around the > world to work on particular timely challenges in SLT, please fill out the > following > form <https://iwslt.org/assets/pdfs/IWSLT2025-Call_for_Tasks.pdf> and > send it to *iwslt-organiz...@googlegroups.com > <iwslt-organiz...@googlegroups.com> *by* September 30th, 2024. *Decisions > about which tasks will run in 2025 will be announced by November 1st, 2024. > > For further information on this initiative, please refer to > *https://iwslt.org/assets/pdfs/IWSLT2025-Call_for_Tasks.pdf > <https://iwslt.org/assets/pdfs/IWSLT2025-Call_for_Tasks.pdf>.* > > Best, > Marine, Marcello, Alex, Jan, Sebastian, Elizabeth, Atul > IWSLT Organisers >
