Automatic Simultaneous Translation 2020
First Workshop on Automatic Simultaneous Translation
The first Workshop on Automatic Simultaneous Translation (AutoSimTrans) was held by the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) in Seattle on 10 July, 2020.
The topic was Challenges, Recent Advances, and Future Directions.
Important dates
Shared task
January | Release of train and develop data |
1 March - 20 April | Evaluation period |
6 May | System description paper |
11 May | Review feedback |
25 May | Camera-ready papers |
Papers
6 May | Submission deadline (both research and systems description papers) |
11 May | Notification of acceptance |
25 May | Camera-ready papers |
10 July | Workshop |
Schedule
07:20 - 07:30 | Opening Remarks |
07:30 - 09:30 | Session 1 chair: Liang Huang |
07:30 - 08:00 | Invited Talk 1 Research stories from Google Translate’s Transcribe Mode Colin Cherry |
08:00 - 08:30 | Invited Talk 2 Human Interpreter Training and Practice: Insights for Simultaneous Machine Translation Research Barry Slaughter Olsen |
08:30 - 09:00 | Invited Talk 3 Discussing Simultaneous Machine Translation Jordan Boyd-Graber |
09:00 - 09:30 | Q&A |
09:30 - 15:00 | 🕑 |
15:00 - 16:10 | Session 2: Research Paper and System Description Zhongjun He |
15:00 - 15:10 | Dynamic Sentence Boundary Detection for Simultaneous Translation Ruiqing Zhang, Chuanqiang Zhang |
15:10 - 15:20 | End-to-End Speech Translation with Adversarial Training Xuancai Li, Chen Kehai, Tiejun Zhao, Muyun Yang |
15:20 - 15:30 | Robust Neural Machine Translation with ASR Errors Haiyang Xue, Yang Feng, Shuhao Gu, Wei Chen |
15:30 - 15:40 | Improving Autoregressive NMT with Non-Autoregressive Model Long Zhou, Jiajun Zhang, Chengqing Zong |
15:40 - 15:50 | Modeling Discourse Structure for Document-level Neural Machine Translation Junxuan Chen, Xiang Li, Jiarui Zhang, Chulun Zhou, Jianwei Cui, Bin Wang, Jinsong Su |
15:50 - 16:00 | BIT’s system for the AutoSimTrans 2020 Minqin Li, Haodong Cheng, Yuanjie Wang, Sijia Zhang, Liting Wu, Yuhang Guo |
16:00 - 16:10 | Q&A |
16:10 - 16:20 | 🕑 |
16:20 - 18:20 | Session 3 chair: Colin Cherry |
16:20 - 16:50 | Invited Talk 4 Baidu Simultaneous Translation: Research and Applications Hua Wu |
16:50 - 17:20 | Invited Talk 5 Machine-aided simultaneous interpreting: An experiment Kay-Fan Cheung |
17:20 - 17:50 | Invited Talk 6 Research and Practice of Simultaneous Speech Translation in Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab Qun Liu |
17:50 - 18:20 | Q&A |
18:20 - 18:30 | Closing Remarks |