WAT 2019
Workshop on Asian Translation
Location
- Online
Links
Important Dates
| Translation task submission | 26 July |
| Research paper submission | 19 August |
| System description paper submission | 13 September |
| Notification of acceptance | 17 September |
| Review feedback of system description papers | 20 September |
| Camera-ready deadline | 30 September |
| Workshop | 04 November |
Schedule
| 9:00 | Welcome and overview |
| Overview of the 6th Workshop on Asian Translation Toshiaki Nakazawa, Nobushige Doi, Shohei Higashiyama, Chenchen Ding, Raj Dabre, Hideya Mino, Isao Goto, Win Pa Pa, Anoop Kunchukuttan, Shantipriya Parida, Ondřej Bojar, Sadao Kurohashi | |
| 9:30 | Research Paper I |
| 9:30 | Compact and Robust Models for Japanese-English Character-level Machine Translation Jinan Dai, Kazunori Yamaguchi |
| 9:50 | Controlling Japanese Honorifics in English-to-Japanese Neural Machine Translation Weston Feely, Eva Hasler, Adrià de Gispert |
| 10:10 | Designing the Business Conversation Corpus Matīss Rikters, Ryokan Ri, Tong Li, Toshiaki Nakazawa |
| 10:30 | Poster booster I |
| 10:50 | System description paper (poster) I |
| English to Hindi Multi-modal Neural Machine Translation and Hindi Image Captioning Sahinur Rahman Laskar, Rohit Pratap Singh, Partha Pakray, Sivaji Bandyopadhyay | |
| Supervised and Unsupervised Machine Translation for Myanmar-English and Khmer-English Benjamin Marie, Hour Kaing, Aye Myat Mon, Chenchen Ding, Atsushi Fujita, Masao Utiyama, Eiichiro Sumita | |
| NICT's participation to WAT 2019: Multilingualism and Multi-step Fine-Tuning for Low Resource NMT Raj Dabre, Eiichiro Sumita | |
| KNU-HYUNDAI’s NMT system for Scientific Paper and Patent Tasks on WAT 2019 Cheoneum Park, Young-Jun Jung, Kihoon Kim, Geonyeong Kim, Jae-Won Jeon, Seongmin Lee, Junseok Kim, Changki Lee | |
| English-Myanmar Supervised and Unsupervised NMT: NICT's Machine Translation Systems at WAT-2019 Rui Wang, Haipeng Sun, Kehai Chen, Chenchen Ding, Masao Utiyama, Eiichiro Sumita | |
| UCSMNLP: Statistical Machine Translation for WAT 2019 Aye Thida, Nway Nway Han, Sheinn Thawtar Oo, Khin Thet Htar | |
| NTT Neural Machine Translation Systems at WAT 2019 Makoto Morishita, Jun Suzuki, Masaaki Nagata | |
| Neural Machine Translation System using a Content-equivalently Translated Parallel Corpus for the Newswire Translation Tasks at WAT 2019 Hideya Mino, Hitoshi Ito, Isao Goto, Ichiro Yamada, Hideki Tanaka, Takenobu Tokunaga | |
| English to Hindi Multi Modal Image Caption Translation: A Shared Task Gurpreet Josan, Jagroop Kaur, Jaswinder Singh | |
| Facebook AI’s WAT19 Myanmar-English Translation Task Submission Peng-Jen Chen, Jiajun Shen, Matthew Le, Vishrav Chaudhary, Ahmed El-Kishky, Guillaume Wenzek, Myle Ott, Marc'Aurelio Ranzato | |
| Combining Translation Memory with Neural Machine Translation Akiko Eriguchi, Spencer Rarrick, Hitokazu Matsushita | |
| CVIT's submissions to WAT-2019 Jerin Philip, Shashank Siripragada, Upendra Kumar, Vinay Namboodiri, C V Jawahar | |
| LTRC-MT Simple & Effective Hindi-English Neural Machine Translation Systems at WAT 2019 Vikrant Goyal, Dipti Misra Sharma | |
| 12:30 | 🍴 |
| 14:00 | Invited talk Dr. Desmond Elliot |
| 14:45 | Poster booster II |
| 15:05 | Commemorative photo |
| 15:10 | System description paper (poster) II |
| Long Warm-up and Self-Training: Training Strategies of NICT-2 NMT System at WAT-2019 Kenji Imamura, Eiichiro Sumita | |
| Supervised neural machine translation based on data augmentation and improved training & inference process Yixuan Tong, Liang Liang, Boyan Liu, Shanshan Jiang, Bin Dong | |
| Sarah's Participation in WAT 2019 Raymond Hendy Susanto, Ohnmar Htun, Liling Tan | |
| Our Neural Machine Translation Systems for WAT 2019 Wei Yang, Jun Ogata | |
| Japanese-Russian TMU Neural Machine Translation System using Multilingual Model for WAT 2019 Aizhan Imankulova, Masahiro Kaneko, Mamoru Komachi | |
| NLPRL at WAT2019: Transformer-based Tamil – English Indic Task Neural Machine Translation System Amit Kumar, Anil Kumar Singh | |
| Idiap NMT System for WAT 2019 Multimodal Translation Task Shantipriya Parida, Ondřej Bojar, Petr Motlicek | |
| WAT2019: English-Hindi Translation on Hindi Visual Genome Dataset Loitongbam Sanayai Meetei, Thoudam Doren Singh, Sivaji Bandyopadhyay | |
| SYSTRAN @ WAT 2019: Russian-Japanese News Commentary task Jitao Xu, TuAnh Nguyen, MinhQuang PHAM, Josep Crego, Jean Senellart | |
| UCSYNLP-Lab Machine Translation Systems for WAT 2019 Yimon ShweSin, Win Pa Pa, KhinMar Soe | |
| 16:30 | Research paper II |
| 16:30 | Sentiment Aware Neural Machine Translation Chenglei Si, Kui Wu, Ai Ti Aw, Min-Yen Kan |
| 16:50 | Overcoming the Rare Word Problem for low-resource language pairs in Neural Machine Translation Thi-Vinh Ngo, Thanh-Le Ha, Phuong-Thai Nguyen, Le-Minh Nguyen |
| 17:10 | Neural Arabic Text Diacritization: State of the Art Results and a Novel Approach for Machine Translation Ali Fadel, Ibraheem Tuffaha, Bara' Al-Jawarneh, Mahmoud Al-Ayyoub |
| 17:30 | Closing |