IWSLT 2022

International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT)


The International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT) is an annual scientific conference on spoken language translation.

IWSLT 2022 was held at ACL 2022 online and in Dublin, Ireland from 26 May to 27 May, 2022.

Last updated from iwslt.org/2022 on May 19th, 2022

Shared tasks

  • Simultaneous Speech Translation
    • Juan Pino (Meta)
    • Katsuhito Sudoh (NAIST)
  • Offline Speech Translation
    • Marco Turchi (FBK)
  • Low-Resource Speech Translation
    • Antonis Anastasopoulos (George Mason U.)
  • Speech-to-Speech Translation
    • Juan Pino (Meta)
  • Multilingual Speech Translation
    • Elizabeth Salesky (JHU)
  • Dialect Speech Translation
    • Kevin Duh (JHU)
  • Formality Control for SLT
    • Maria Nadejde (Amazon)
  • Isometric SLT
    • Prashant Mathur (Amazon)

Schedule

Day 1

Thursday, 26 May, 2022

   
09:00-09:10 Welcome Remarks
09:10-10:30 Findings of the IWSLT 2022 Evaluation Campaign
Elizabeth Salesky, Marcello Federico, Marta Costa-jussà (editors)
10:30-11:00 ☕️
11:00-12:30 Oral 1: Scientific Papers
11:00-11:18 SubER - A Metric for Automatic Evaluation of Subtitle Quality
Patrick Wilken, Panayota Georgakopoulou, Evgeny Matusov
11:18-11:36 Improving Arabic Diacritization by Learning to Diacritize and Translate
Brian Thompson, Ali Alshehri
11:36-11:54 Simultaneous Neural Machine Translation with Prefix Alignment
Yasumasa Kano, Katsuhito Sudoh, Satoshi Nakamura
11:54-12:12 Locality-Sensitive Hashing for Long Context Neural Machine Translation
Frithjof Petrick, Jan Rosendahl, Christian Herold, Hermann Ney
12:12-12:30 Who Are We Talking About? Handling Person Names in Speech Translation
Marco Gaido, Matteo Negri, Marco Turchi
12:30-14:00 🍴
14:00-15:00 Keynote: Synchronization in translation for dubbing: implications for its automation
Frederic Chaume
15:00-15:30 ☕️
15:30-17:30 Poster Session: System Papers
  The YiTrans Neural Speech Translation Systems for IWSLT 2022 Offline Shared Task
Ziqiang Zhang, Junyi Ao
  Amazon Alexa AI’s System for IWSLT 2022 Offline Speech Translation Shared Task
Akshaya Vishnu Kudlu Shanbhogue, Ran Xue, Ching-Yun Chang, Sarah Campbell
  Efficient yet Competitive Speech Translation: FBK@IWSLT2022
Marco Gaido, Sara Papi, Dennis Fucci, Giuseppe Fiameni, Matteo Negri, Marco Turchi
  Effective combination of pretrained models - KIT@IWSLT2022
Ngoc-Quan Pham, Tuan Nam Nguyen, Thai-Binh Nguyen, Danni Liu, Carlos Mullov, Jan Niehues, Alexander Waibel
  The USTC-NELSLIP Offline Speech Translation Systems for IWSLT 2022
Weitai Zhang, Zhongyi Ye, Haitao Tang, Xiaoxi Li, Xinyuan Zhou, Jing Yang, Jianwei Cui, Dan Liu, Junhua Liu, Lirong Dai
  The AISP-SJTU Simultaneous Translation System for IWSLT 2022
Qinpei Zhu, Renshou Wu, Guangfeng Liu, Xinyu Zhu, Xingyu Chen, Yang Zhou, Qingliang Miao, Rui Wang, Kai Yu
  The Xiaomi Text-to-Text Simultaneous Speech Translation System for IWSLT 2022
Bao Guo, Mengge Liu, Wen Zhang, Hexuan Chen, Chang Mu, Xiang Li, Jianwei Cui, Bin Wang, Yuhang Guo
  NVIDIA NeMo Offline Speech Translation Systems for IWSLT 2022
Oleksii Hrinchuk, Vahid Noroozi, Abhinav Khattar, Anton Peganov, Sandeep Subramanian, Somshubra Majumdar, Oleksii Kuchaiev
  The NiuTrans’s Submission to the IWSLT22 English-to-Chinese Offline Speech Translation Task
Yuhao Zhang, Canan Huang, Chen Xu, Xiaoqian Liu, Bei Li, Anxiang Ma, Tong Xiao, Jingbo Zhu
  The HW-TSC’s Offline Speech Translation System for IWSLT 2022 Evaluation
Yinglu Li, Minghan Wang, Jiaxin GUO, Xiaosong Qiao, Yuxia Wang, Daimeng Wei, Chang Su, Yimeng Chen, Min Zhang, shimin tao, Hao Yang, Ying Qin
  The HW-TSC’s Simultaneous Speech Translation System for IWSLT 2022 Evaluation
Minghan Wang, Jiaxin GUO, Yinglu Li, Xiaosong Qiao, Yuxia Wang, Zongyao Li, Chang Su, Yimeng Chen, Min Zhang, shimin tao, Hao Yang, Ying Qin
  MLLP-VRAIN UPV systems for the IWSLT 2022 Simultaneous Speech Translation and Speech-to-Speech Translation tasks
Javier Iranzo-Sánchez, Javier Jorge Cano, Alejandro Pérez-González-de-Martos, Adrián Giménez Pastor, Gonçal Garcés Díaz-Munío, Pau Baquero-Arnal, ‪Joan Albert Silvestre-Cerdà, Jorge Civera Saiz, Albert Sanchis, Alfons Juan
  Pretrained Speech Encoders and Efficient Fine-tuning Methods for Speech Translation: UPC at IWSLT 2022
Ioannis Tsiamas, Gerard I. Gállego, Carlos Escolano, José A. R. Fonollosa, Marta R. Costa-jussà
  CUNI-KIT System for Simultaneous Speech Translation Task at IWSLT 2022
Peter Polák, Ngoc-Quan Pham, Tuan Nam Nguyen, Danni Liu, Carlos Mullov, Jan Niehues, Ondřej Bojar, Alexander Waibel
  NAIST Simultaneous Speech-to-Text Translation System for IWSLT 2022
Ryo Fukuda, Yuka Ko, Yasumasa Kano, Kosuke Doi, Hirotaka Tokuyama, Sakriani Sakti, Katsuhito Sudoh, Satoshi Nakamura
  The HW-TSC’s Speech to Speech Translation System for IWSLT 2022 Evaluation
Jiaxin GUO, Yinglu Li, Minghan Wang, Xiaosong Qiao, Yuxia Wang, Hengchao Shang, Chang Su, Yimeng Chen, Min Zhang, shimin tao, Hao Yang, Ying Qin
  CMU’s IWSLT 2022 Dialect Speech Translation System
Brian Yan, Patrick Fernandes, Siddharth Dalmia, Jiatong Shi, Yifan Peng, Dan Berrebbi, Xinyi Wang, Graham Neubig, Shinji Watanabe
  ON-TRAC Consortium Systems for the IWSLT 2022 Dialect and Low-resource Speech Translation Tasks
Marcely Zanon Boito, John Ortega, Hugo Riguidel, Antoine Laurent, Loïc Barrault, Fethi Bougares, Firas Chaabani, Ha Nguyen, Florentin Barbier, Souhir Gahbiche, Yannick Estève
  JHU IWSLT 2022 Dialect Speech Translation System Description
Jinyi Yang, Amir Hussein, Matthew Wiesner, Sanjeev Khudanpur
  Controlling Translation Formality Using Pre-trained Multilingual Language Models
Elijah Rippeth, Sweta Agrawal, Marine Carpuat
  Controlling Formality in Low-Resource NMT with Domain Adaptation and Re-Ranking: SLT-CDT-UoS at IWSLT2022
Sebastian Vincent, Loïc Barrault, Carolina Scarton
  Improving Machine Translation Formality Control with Weakly-Labelled Data Augmentation and Post Editing Strategies
Daniel Zhang, Jiang Yu, Pragati Verma, Ashwinkumar Ganesan, Sarah Campbell
  HW-TSC’s Participation in the IWSLT 2022 Isometric Spoken Language Translation
Zongyao Li, JiaXin Guo, Daimeng Wei, Hengchao Shang, Minghan Wang, Ting Zhu, Zhanglin Wu, Zhengzhe Yu, Xiaoyu Chen, Lizhi Lei, Hao Yang, Ying Qin
  AppTek’s Submission to the IWSLT 2022 Isometric Spoken Language Translation Task
Patrick Wilken, Evgeny Matusov
  Hierarchical Multi-task learning framework for Isometric-Speech Language Translation
Aakash Bhatnagar, Nidhir Bhavsar, Muskaan Singh, Petr Motlicek
17:30 End of Day 1

Day 2

Friday, 27 May, 2022

   
09:00-10:30 Oral 2: Scientific Papers
09:10-09:30 Anticipation-Free Training for Simultaneous Machine Translation
Chih-Chiang Chang, Shun-Po Chuang, Hung-yi Lee
09:30-09:50 Joint Generation of Captions and Subtitles with Dual Decoding
Jitao Xu, François Buet, Josep Crego, Elise Bertin-Lemée, François Yvon
09:50-10:10 MirrorAlign: A Super Lightweight Unsupervised Word Alignment Model via Cross-Lingual Contrastive Learning
Di Wu, Liang Ding, Shuo Yang, Mingyang Li
10:10-10:30 On the Impact of Noises in Crowd-Sourced Data for Speech Translation
Siqi Ouyang, Rong Ye, Lei Li
10:30-11:00 ☕️
11:00-12:30 Discussion 1: Retrospective
12:30-14:00 🍴
14:00-15:00 Discussion 2: Planning
15:00-15:30 ☕️
15:30-16:30 Discussion 3: Planning
16:30-16:45 Best Student Paper Award
16:45-17:00 Closing Remarks

Paper submission

Submissions should be scientific papers or shared task system description papers. All papers may consist of 4 to 8 pages of content with additional pages of references, formatted using the ACL stylesheets. Upon acceptance, all papers will be given one (1) additional content page to address reviewers’ comments. Accepted papers will be published in the ACL 2022 proceedings and will be presented at the IWSLT conference either orally or as a poster.

  • Scientific papers must be anonymised for submission, while system description papers do not need to be.
  • Submissions which have previously been made available as technical reports or preprints, e.g. on arXiv, may be accepted.
  • Scientific papers for publication that overlap significantly in content or results with papers published elsewhere are not accepted.
  • Scientific papers which have been, or plan to be, submitted to other venues must be declared as such at the time of submission, and must be withdrawn from the other venues if accepted and published at IWSLT 2022.

Timeline

   
15 January Release of shared task training and dev data
13 March Technical paper submission deadline
14-25 March Evaluation period
1 April System paper submission deadline
22 April Paper notification
1 May Camera ready deadline
26-27 May IWSLT conference

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