Automatic Simultaneous Translation 2021
Second Workshop on Automatic Simultaneous Translation
The second Workshop on Automatic Simultaneous Translation (AutoSimTrans) was held by the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) in Mexico City on 10 June, 2021.
The topic was Challenges, Recent Advances, and Future Directions.
Important dates
Shared task
Release of training data | January |
Evaluation period | 1 March, 2020 - April 20 |
System description paper due | 6 May |
Review feedback | 11 May |
Camera-ready papers due | 25 May |
Papers
Notification of acceptance | 11 May |
Camera-ready papers due | 25 May |
Workshop | 10 July |
Keynote speakers
Simultaneous Translation Speakers
- Will Lewis, Affiliate Faculty, University of Washington, and Former Principal PM Architect, Microsoft Research
- Lucia Specia, Professor, Imperial College London
- Liang Huang, Associate Professor, Oregon State, and Distinguished Scientist, Baidu Research
Human Interpretation Speaker
- Hong Jiang, Senior Lecturer, Deptartment. of Translation, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Organisers
- Hua Wu, Baidu Inc.
- Colin Cherry, Google
- Liang Huang, Oregon State University and Baidu Research
- Zhongjun He, Baidu Inc.
- Qun Liu,Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab
- Maha Elbayad, Université Grenoble Alpes
Schedule
07:15 - 07:30 | Opening Remarks |
07:30 - 10:10 | Session 1: Invited Talks |
07:30 - 08:10 | Invited Talk 1 Hong Jiang |
08:10 - 08:50 | Invited Talk 2 Lucia Specia |
08:50 - 09:30 | Invited Talk 3 Will Lewis |
09:30 - 10:10 | Invited Talk 4 Liang Huang |
10:10 - 19:00 | 🕑 |
19:00 - 20:20 | Research Paper and System Description |
19:00 - 19:10 | Findings of the Second Workshop on Automatic Simultaneous Translation Ruiqing Zhang, Chuanqiang Zhang, Zhongjun He, Hua Wu, Haifeng Wang |
19:10 - 19:20 | BIT’s system for AutoSimulTrans2021 Mengge Liu, Shuoying Chen, Minqin Li, Zhipeng Wang, Yuhang Guo |
19:20 - 19:30 | XMU’s Simultaneous Translation System at NAACL 2021 Shuangtao Li, Jinming Hu, Boli Wang, Xiaodong Shi, Yidong Chen |
19:30 - 19:40 | System Description on Automatic Simultaneous Translation Workshop Linjie Chen, Jianzong Wang, Zhangcheng Huang, Xiongbin Ding, Jing Xiao |
19:40 - 19:50 | BSTC: A Large-Scale Chinese-English Speech Translation Dataset Ruiqing Zhang, Xiyang Wang, Chuanqiang Zhang, Zhongjun He, Hua Wu, Zhi Li, Haifeng Wang, Ying Chen, Qinfei Li |
19:50 - 20:00 | ICT’s System for AutoSimTrans 2021: Robust Char-Level Simultaneous Translation Shaolei Zhang, Yang Feng |
20:00 - 20:20 | Questions and answers |
20:20 - 20:30 | Closing Remarks |