EAMT2020
Conference of the European Association of Machine Translation
The 22nd Annual Conference of the European Association of Machine Translation 2022 (EAMT 2020) was hosted online from 3 November to 5 November, 2020.
The event was organized by Unbabel, INESC-ID and Instituto Superior Técnico.
Schedule
Day 1
Tuesday, 3 November
| 09:00 – 09:30 | Opening of the Conference |
| 09:30 – 10:00 | Research track What’s the Difference Between Professional Human and Machine Translation? A Blind Multi-language Study on Domain-specific MT Lukas Fischer, Samuel Läubli Chair: Marco Turchi) |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Research track MT for subtitling: User evaluation of post-editing productivity Maarit Koponen, Umut Sulubacak, Kaisa Vitikainen, Jörg Tiedemann Chair: Marco Turchi |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Research track Leveraging Multilingual Resources for Language Invariant Sentiment Analysis Allen Antony, Arghya Bhattacharya, Jaipal Goud, Radhika Mamidi Chair: Marco Turchi |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | ☕️ |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Research track Efficiently Reusing Old Models Across Languages via Transfer Learning Tom Kocmi, Ondřej Bojar Chair: Amin Farajian |
| 12:00 – 12:30 | Research track When and Why is Unsupervised Neural Machine Translation Useless? Yunsu Kim, Miguel Graça, Hermann Ney Chair: Amin Farajian |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | 🍴 |
| 14:00 – 15:00 | The WMT Shared Tasks Barry Haddow Chair: Ondřej Bojar |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Best Thesis Award The Roles of Language Models and Hierarchical Models in Neural Sequence-to-Sequence Prediction Felix Stahlberg Chair: Carol Scarton |
| 15:30 – 16:30 | Poster Session Research and user tracks - Part 1 Chair: Helena Moniz |
| Fine-grained Human Evaluation of Transformer and Recurrent Approaches to Neural Machine Translation for English-to-Chinese Yuying Ye, Antonio Toral | |
| Incorporating External Annotation to improve Named Entity Translation in NMT Maciej Modrzejewski, Miriam Exel, Bianka Buschbeck, Thanh-Le Ha, Alexander Waibel | |
| A multi-source approach for Breton–French hybrid machine translation Víctor M. Sánchez-Cartagena, Mikel L. Forcada, Felipe Sánchez-Martínez | |
| Low-Resource Unsupervised NMT: Diagnosing the Problem and Providing a Linguistically Motivated Solution Lukas Edman, Antonio Toral, Gertjan van Noord | |
| Learning Non-Monotonic Automatic Post-Editing of Translations from Human Orderings António Góis, Kyunghyun Cho, André Martins | |
| Document-level Neural MT: A Systematic Comparison António Lopes, M. Amin Farajian, Rachel Bawden, Michael Zhang, André T. Martins | |
| MT syntactic priming effects on L2 English speakers Natália Resende, Benjamin Cowan, Andy Way | |
| With or without you? Effects of using machine translation to write flash fiction in the foreign language Nora Aranberri | |
| Fine-Grained Error Analysis on English-to-Japanese Machine Translation in the Medical Domain Takeshi Hayakawa, Yuki Arase | |
| Unified Humor Detection Based on Sentence-pair Augmentation and Transfer Learning Minghan Wang, Hao Yang, Ying Qin, Shiliang Sun, Yao Deng | |
| Intelligent Translation Memory Matching and Retrieval with Sentence Encoders Tharindu Ranasinghe, Constantin Orasan, Ruslan Mitkov | |
| 16:30 – 17:30 | Poster Session Research and user tracks - part 2 Chair: Maja Popovic |
| Modelling Source- and Target- Language Syntactic Information as Conditional Context in Interactive Neural Machine Translation Kamal Kumar Gupta, Rejwanul Haque, Asif Ekbal, Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Andy Way | |
| Comprehension and Trust in Crises: Investigating the Impact of Machine Translation and Post-Editing Alessandra Rossetti, Sharon O’Brien, Patrick Cadwell | |
| Efficient Transfer Learning for Quality Estimation with Bottleneck Adapter Layer Hao Yang, Minghan Wang, Ning Xie, Ying Qin, Yao Deng | |
| Quality In, Quality Out: Learning from Actual Mistakes Frederic Blain, Nikolaos Aletras, Lucia Specia | |
| NICE: Neural Integrated Custom Engines Daniel Marín Buj, Daniel Ibáñez García, Zuzanna Parcheta, Francisco Casacuberta | |
| Persistent MT on software technical documentation – a case study María Concepción Laguardia | |
| Insights from Gathering MT Productivity Metrics at Scale Georg Kirchner | |
| Bifixer and Bicleaner: two open-source tools to clean your parallel data Gema Ramírez-Sánchez, Jaume Zaragoza-Bernabeu, Marta Bañón, Sergio Ortiz Rojas | |
| Domain Informed Neural Machine Translation: Developing Translation Services for Healthcare Enterprise Sahil Manchanda, Galina Grunin | |
| A User Study of the Incremental Learning in NMT Miguel Domingo, Mercedes García-Martínez, Álvaro Peris, Alexandre Helle, Amando Estela, Laurent Bié, Francisco Casacuberta, Manuel Herranz | |
| Ellipsis Translation for a Medical Speech to Speech Translation System Jonathan Mutal, Johanna Gerlach, Pierrette Bouillon, Hervé Spechbach | |
| Estimation vs Metrics: is QE Useful for MT Model Selection? Anna Zaretskaya, José Conceicão, Frederick Bane |
Day 2
Wednesday, 4 November
| 09:30 – 10:30 | Keynote speech Lucia Specia Chair: Mikel Forcada |
| 10:30 – 11:30 | Poster Session Project/product track - part 1** Chair: Jorg Tiedemann |
| QE Viewer: an Open-Source Tool for Visualization of Machine Translation Quality Estimation Results Felipe Soares, Anna Zaretskaya, Diego Bartolome | |
| Document-Level Machine Translation Evaluation Project: Methodology, Effort and Inter-Annotator Agreement Sheila Castilho | |
| Sockeye 2: A Toolkit for Neural Machine Translation Felix Hieber, Tobias Domhan, Michael Denkowski, David Vilar | |
| CEF Data Marketplace: Powering a Long-term Supply of Language Data Amir Kamran, Dace Dzeguze, Jaap van der Meer, Milica Panic, Alessandro Cattelan, Daniele Patrioli, Luisa Bentivogli, Marco Turchi | |
| QRev: Machine Translation of User Reviews: What Influences the Translation Quality? Maja Popović | |
| ELITR: European Live Translator Ondřej Bojar, Dominik Macháček, Sangeet Sagar, Otakar Smrž, Jonáš Kratochvíl, Ebrahim Ansari, Dario Franceschini, Chiara Canton, Ivan Simonini, Thai-Son Nguyen, Felix Schneider, Sebastian Stücker, Alex Waibel, Barry Haddow, Rico Sennrich, Philip Williams | |
| Progress of the PRINCIPLE Project: Promoting MT for Croatian, Icelandic, Irish and Norwegian Andy Way, Petra Bago, Jane Dunne, Federico Gaspari, Andre Kåsen, Gauti Kristmannsson, Helen McHugh, Jon Arild Olsen, Dana Davis Sheridan, Páraic Sheridan, John Tinsley | |
| MTUOC: easy and free integration of NMT systems in professional translation environments Antoni Oliver | |
| INMIGRA3: building a case for NGOs and NMT Celia Rico, María del Mar Sánchez Ramos, Antoni Oliver | |
| The Multilingual Anonymisation Toolkit for Public Administrations (MAPA) Project Ēriks Ajausks, Victoria Arranz, Laurent Bié, Aleix Cerdà-i-Cucó, Khalid Choukri, Montse Cuadros, Hans Degroote, Amando Estela, Thierry Etchegoyhen, Mercedes García-Martínez, Aitor Garcı́a-Pablos, Manuel Herranz, Alejandro Kohan, Maite Melero, Mike Rosner, Roberts Rozis, Patrick Paroubek, Artūrs Vasiļevskis, Pierre Zweigenbaum | |
| APE-QUEST: A Quality Gate for Routing MT Joachim Van den Bogaert, Heidi Depraetere, Sara Szoc, Tom Vanallemeersch, Lucia Specia, Julia Ive, Maxim Khalilov | |
| 11:30 – 12:30 | Poster Session Project/product track - part 2 Chair: Fabio Kepler |
| MICE: a middleware layer for MT Joachim Van den Bogaert, Tom Vanallemeersch, Heidi Depraetere | |
| Neural Translation for the European Union (NTEU) Project Laurent Bié, Aleix Cerdà-i-Cucó, Hans Degroote, Amando Estela, Mercedes García-Martínez, Manuel Herranz, Alejandro Kohan, Maite Melero, Tony O’Dowd, Sinéad O’Gorman, Mārcis Pinnis, Roberts Rozis, Riccardo Superbo, Artūrs Vasiļevskis | |
| OPUS-MT — Building open translation services for the World Jörg Tiedemann, Santhosh Thottingal | |
| OCR, Classification & Machine Translation (OCCAM) Joachim Van den Bogaert, Arne Defauw, Frederic Everaert, Koen Van Winckel, Alina Kramchaninova, Anna Bardadym, Tom Vanallemeersch, Pavel Smrž, Michal Hradiš | |
| CEFAT4Cities, a Natural Language Layer for the ISA2 Core Public Service Vocabulary Joachim Van den Bogaert, Arne Defauw, Sara Szoc, Frederic Everaert, Koen Van Winckel, Alina Kramchaninova, Anna Bardadym, Tom Vanallemeersch | |
| Assessing the Comprehensibility of Automatic Translations (ArisToCAT) Lieve Macken, Margot Fonteyne, Arda Tezcan, Joke Daems | |
| Let MT simplify and speed up your alignment for TM creation Judith Klein, Giorgio Bernardinello | |
| An Overview of the SEBAMAT Project Reinhard Rapp, George Tambouratzis | |
| DeepSPIN: Deep Structured Prediction for Natural Language Processing André Filipe Torres Martins, lad Niculae, Erick Fonseca, Ben Peters, Gonçalo Correia, Tsvetomila Mihaylova, Marcos Treviso, Pedro Martins | |
| Project MAIA: Multilingual AI Agent Assistant André Filipe Torres Martins, João Graça, Paulo Dimas, Helena Moniz, Graham Neubig | |
| MTrill project: Machine Translation impact on language learning Natália Resende, Andy Way | |
| 12:30 – 14:30 | 🍴 |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Research track Correct Me If You Can: Learning from Error Corrections and Markings Julia Kreutzer, Nathaniel Berger, Stefan Riezler Chair: Andy Way |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Research track Reassessing Claims of Human Parity and Super-Human Performance in Machine Translation at WMT 2019 Antonio Toral Chair: Andy Way |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Research track Revisiting Round-trip Translation for Quality Estimation Jihyung Moon, Hyunchang Cho, Eunjeong L. Park Chair: Andy Way |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | ☕️ |
| 16:30 – 17:30 | EAMT General Assembly Chair: Mikel Forcada |
Day 3
Thursday, 5th November
| 09:30 – 10:00 | User track Terminology-Constrained Neural Machine Translation at SAP Miriam Exel, Bianka Buschbeck, Lauritz Brandt, Simona Doneva Chair: Mary Nurminen |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | User track An English-Swahili parallel corpus and its use for neural machine translation in the news domain Felipe Sanchez-Martınez, Vıctor M. Sanchez-Cartagena, Juan Antonio Perez-Ortiz, Mikel L. Forcada, Miquel Esplà-Gomis, Andrew Secker, Susie Coleman, Julie Wall Chair: Mary Nurminen |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | User track Evaluating the usefulness of neural machine translation for the Polish translators at the European Commission Karolina Stefaniak Chair: Mary Nurminen |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | ☕️ |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Research track Automatic Translation for Multiple NLP tasks: a Multi-task Approach to Machine-oriented NMT Adaptation Amirhossein Tebbifakhr, Matteo Negri, Marco Turchi Chair: José Guilherme |
| 12:00 – 12:30 | Research track Double Attention-based Multimodal Neural Machine Translation with Semantic Image Regions Yuting Zhao, Mamoru Komachi, Tomoyuki Kajiwara, Chenhui Chu Chair: José Guilherme |
| 12:30 – 14:30 | 🍴 |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | User track Machine Translation Post-editing Levels: Breaking Away from the Tradition and Delivering a Tailored Service Mara Nunziatini, Lena Marg Chair: Mary Nurminen |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Translators track A human evaluation of English-Irish statistical and neural machine translation Meghan Dowling, Sheila Castilho, Joss Moorkens, Teresa Lynn, Andy Way Chair: Joss Morkens, Ana Guerberov |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Translators track Re-design of the Machine Translation Training Tool (MT3) Paula Estrella, Emiliano Cuenca, Laura Bruno, Jonathan Mutal, Sabrina Girletti, Lise Volkart, Pierrette Bouillon Chair: Joss Morkens, Ana Guerberov |
| 16:00 – 17:30 | Translators Track Short Presentations Chair: Joss Morkens, Ana Guerberov |
| On the differences between human translations Maja Popovic | |
| PosEdiOn: Post-Editing Assessment in PythOn Antoni Oliver, Sergi Alvarez, Toni Badia | |
| Quantitative Analysis of Post-Editing Effort Indicators for NMT Sergi Alvarez, Antoni Oliver, Toni Badia | |
| Comparing Post-editing based on Four Editing Actions against Translating with an Auto-Complete Feature Félix Do Carmo | |
| Machine Translation Quality: A comparative evaluation of SMT, NMT and tailored-NMT outputs Maria Stasimioti, Vilelmini Sosoni, Katia Kermanidis, Despoina Mouratidis | |
| 17:30 – 18:00 | Translators track Multidimensional assessment of the eTranslation output for English–Slovene Mateja Arnejšek, Alenka Unk Chair: Joss Morkens, Ana Guerberov |
| 18:00 – 18:30 | Translators track How do LSPs compute MT discounts? Presenting a company’s pipeline and its use Randy Scansani, Lamis Mhedhbi Chair: Joss Morkens, Ana Guerberov |
| 18:30 – 19:00 | Closing of the Conference |