Proceedings of the

International Workshop on

Spoken Language Translation

December 8 and 9, 2011

San Francisco, USA

Edited by

Marcello Federico, Mei-Yuh Hwang, Margit Rödder, Sebastian Stüker

Table of contents

Keynotes 8

Data-intensive approaches for ASR

Sadaoki Furui

Meaning-equivalent semantics forunderstanding, generation, translation, and evaluation

Daniel Marcu

Resource-rich research on natural language processing and understanding

Junichi Tsujii

Overview of the IWSLT 2011 evaluation campaign. 11-27

Marcello Federico, Luisa Bentivogli, Michael Paul, Sebastian Stüker

The NICT ASR system for IWSLT2011 28-33

Kazuhiko Abe, Youzheng Wu, Chien-lin Huang, Paul R.Dixon, Shigeki Matsuda, Chiori Hori, Hideki Kashioka

The MIT-LL/AFRL IWSLT-2011 MT system. 34-40

A.Ryan Aminzadeh, Tim Anderson, Ray Slyh, Brian Ore, Eric Hansen, Wade Shen, Jennifer Drexler, Terry Gleason

The DCU machine translation systems for IWSLT 2011. 41-48

Pratyush Banerjee, Hala Almaghout, Sudip Naskar, Johann Roturier, Jie Jiang, Andy Way, Josef van Genabith

The NICT translation system for IWSLT 2011. 49-56

Andrew Finch, Chooi-Ling Goh, Graham Neubig, Eiichiro Sumita

The MSR system for IWSLT 2011 evaluation. 57-61

Xiaodong He, Amittai Axelrod, Li Deng, Alex Acero, Mei-Yuh Hwang, Alisa Nguyen, Andrew Wang, Xiahui Huang

LIMSI’s experiments in domain adaptation for IWSLT11. 62-67

Thomas Lavergne, Alexandre Allauzen, Hai-Son Le, François Yvon

LIG English-French spoken language translation system for IWSLT 2011 68-72

Benjamin Lecouteux, Laurent Besacier, Hervé Blanchon

The KIT English-French translation systems for IWSLT 2011. 73-78

Mohammed Mediani, Eunach Cho, Jan Niehues,Teresa Herrmann, Alex Waibel

LIUM’s systems for the IWSLT 2011 speech translation tasks. 79-85

Anthony Rousseau, Fethi Bougares, Paul Deléglise, Holger Schwenk, Yannick Estève

FBK@IWSLT 2011. 86-93

N.Ruiz, A.Bisazza, F.Brugnara, D.Falavigna, D.Giuliani, S.Jaber, R.Gretter, M.Federico

The 2011 KIT English ASR system for the IWSLT evaluation. 94-97

Sebastian Stüker, Kevin Kilgour, Christian Saam, Alex Waibel

DFKI's SC and MT submissions to IWSLT 2011. 98-105

David Vilar, Eleftherios Avramidis, Maja Popović, Sabine Hunsicker

The RWTH Aachen machine translation system for IWSLT 2011. 106-113

Joern Wuebker, Matthias Huck, Saab Mansour, Markus Freitag, Minwei Feng, Stephan Peitz, Christoph Schmidt, Hermann Ney

Advances on spoken language translation in the Quaero program. 114-120

Karim Boudahmane, Bianka Buschbeck, Eunah Cho, Josep Maria Crego, Markus Freitag, Thomas Lavergne, Hermann Ney, Jan Niehues, Stephan Peitz, Jean Senellart, Artem Sokolov, Alex Waibel, Tonio Wandmacher, Joern Wuebker, François Yvon

Speech recognition for machine translation in Quaero. 121-128

Lori Lamel, Sandrine Courcinous, Julien Despres, Jean-Luc Gauvain, Yvan Josse, Kevin Kilgour, Florian Kraft, Viet Bac Le, Hermann Ney, Markus Nußbaum-Thom, Ilya Oparin, Tim Schlippe, Ralf Schlüter, Tanja Schultz, Thiago Fraga da Silva, Sebastian Stüker, Martin Sundermeyer, Bianca Vieru, Ngoc Thang Vu, Alexander Waibel, Cécile Woehrling

Protocol and lessons learnt from the production of parallel corpora for the evaluation of speech translation systems. 129-135

Victoria Arranz, Olivier Hamon, Karim Boudahmane, Martine Garnier-Rizet

Fill-up versus interpolation methods for phrase-based SMT adaptation 136-143

Arianna Bisazza, Nick Ruiz, Marcello Federico

Semantic smoothing and fabrication of phrase pairs for SMT. 144-150

Boxing Chen, Roland Kuhn, George Foster

SCFG latent annotation for machine translation. 151-158

Tagyoung Chung, Licheng Fang, Daniel Gildea

Long-distance hierarchical structure transformation rules utilizing function words. 159-166

Chenchen Ding, Takashi Inui, Mikio Yamamoto

Investigation of the effects of ASR tuning on speech translation performance. 167-174

Paul R.Dixon, Andrew Finch, Chiori Hori, Hideki Kashioka

Extending a probabilistic phrase alignment approach for SMT. 175-182

Mridul Gupta, Sanjika Hewavitharana, Stephan Vogel

Left language model state for syntactic machine translation. 183-190

Kenneth Heafield, Hieu Hoang, Philipp Koehn, Tetsuo Kiso, Marcello Federico

Lexicon models for hierarchical phrase-based machine translation.

Matthias Huck, Saab Mansour, Simon Wiesler, Hermann Ney 191-198

The 2011 KIT QUAERO speech-to-text system for Spanish. 199-205

Kevin Kilgour, Christian Saam, Christian Mohr, Sebastian Stüker, Alex Waibel

Named entity translation using anchor texts. 206-213

Wang Ling, Pável Calado, Bruno Martins, Isabel Trancoso, Alan Black, Luísa Coheur

Unsupervised vocabulary selection for simultaneous lecture translation. 214-221

Paul Maergner, Kevin Kilgour, Ian Lane, Alex Waibel

Combining translation and language model scoring for domain-specific data filtering. 222-229

Saab Mansour, Joern Wuebker, Hermann Ney

Using Wikipedia to translate domain-specific terms in SMT. 230-237

Jan Niehues, Alex Waibel

Modeling punctuation prediction as machine translation. 238-245

Stephan Peitz, Markus Freitag, Arne Mauser, Hermann Ney

Soft string-to-dependency hierarchical machine translation. 246-253

Jan-Thorsten Peter, Matthias Huck, Hermann Ney, Daniel Stein

Speaker alignment in synthesised, machine translation communication. 254-260

Anne H.Schneider, Saturnino Luz:

How good are your phrases? Assessing phrase quality with single class classification. 261-268

Nadi Tomeh, Marco Turchi, Guillaume Wisinewski, Alexandre Allauzen, François Yvon

Annotating data selection for improving machine translation. 269-274

Keiji Yasuda, Hideo Okuma, Masao Utiyama, Eiichiro Sumita