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.

autosimtrans.github.io/2020

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

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