WAT 2020
Workshop on Asian Translation
Location
- Online
Links
Important Dates
| Translation task submission | 18 September |
| Research paper submission | 18 September |
| System description paper submission | 23 October |
| Notification of acceptance | 23 October |
| Review feedback of system description papers | 30 October |
| Camera-ready deadline | 06 November |
| Workshop | 04 December |
Shared Tasks
- Document-level
- Scientific paper
- Patent
- Newswire
- News commentary
- Information technology and wikinews
- Mixed-domain
- Indic
- Multimodal
Schedule
| 10:00 | Welcome |
| 10:05 | Research Paper I |
| 10:05 | An Effective Optimization Method for Neural Machine Translation: The Case of English-Persian Bilingually Low-Resource Scenario Benyamin Ahmadnia, Bonnie Dorr |
| 10:25 | Transformer-based Double-token Bidirectional Autoregressive Decoding in Neural Machine Translation Kenji Imamura, Eiichiro Sumita |
| 10:45 | Translation of New Named Entities from English to Chinese Zizheng Zhang, Tosho Hirasawa, Wei Houjing, Masahiro Kaneko, Mamoru Komachi |
| 11:05 | 🕑 |
| 11:10 | Shared Task I - ASPEC / JIJI / Multimodal En-Ja |
| 11:10 | Task Descriptions and Results Toshiaki Nakazawa, Isao Goto, Hideki Nakayama |
| 11:24 | Meta Ensemble for Japanese-Chinese Neural Machine Translation: Kyoto-U+ECNU Participation to WAT 2020 Zhuoyuan Mao, Yibin Shen, Chenhui Chu, Sadao Kurohashi, Cheqing Jin |
| 11:36 | Neural Machine Translation Using Extracted Context based on Deep Analysis for the Japanese-English Newswire Task at WAT 2020 Isao Goto, Hideya Mino, Hitoshi Ito, Kazutaka Kinugawa, Ichiro Yamada, Hideki Tanaka |
| 11:48 | TMU Japanese-English Multimodal Machine Translation System for WAT 2020 Hiroto Tamura, Tosho Hirasawa, Masahiro Kaneko, Mamoru Komachi |
| 12:00 | 🍴 |
| 14:00 | Shared Task II - Indic Multilingual / UFAL EnOdia / Multimodal En-Hi / Hinden |
| 14:00 | Task Descriptions and Results Raj Dabre, Shantipriya Parida |
| 14:15 | HW-TSC's Participation in the WAT 2020 Indic Languages Multilingual Task Zhengzhe Yu, Zhanglin Wu, Xiaoyu Chen, Daimeng Wei, Hengchao Shang, Jiaxin Guo, Zongyao Li, Minghan Wang, Liangyou Li, Lizhi Lei, Hao Yang, Ying Qin |
| 14:27 | NICT's Submission To WAT 2020: How Effective Are Simple Many-To-Many Neural Machine Translation Models? Raj Dabre, Abhisek Chakrabarty |
| 14:39 | ODIANLP's Participation in WAT2020 Shantipriya Parida, Petr Motlicek, Amulya Ratna Dash, Satya Ranjan Dash, Debasish Kumar Mallick, Satya Prakash Biswal, Priyanka Pattnaik, Biranchi Narayan Nayak, Ondřej Bojar |
| 14:51 | Multimodal Neural Machine Translation for English to Hindi Sahinur Rahman Laskar, Abdullah Faiz Ur Rahman Khilji, Partha Pakray, Sivaji Bandyopadhyay |
| 15:03 | The ADAPT Centre's Participation in WAT 2020 English-to-Odia Translation Task Prashanth Nayak, Rejwanul Haque, Andy Way |
| 15:15 | NLPRL Odia-English: Indic Language Neural Machine Translation System Rupjyoti Baruah, Rajesh Kumar Mundotiya |
| 15:27 | WT: Wipro AI Submissions to the WAT 2020 Santanu Pal |
| 15:39 | 🕑 |
| 15:45 | Shared Task III - JPC / BSD |
| 15:45 | Task Descriptions and Results Chenchen Ding, Toshiaki Nakazawa |
| 15:55 | Korean to Japanese Neural Machine Translation System using Hanja Information Hwichan Kim, Tosho Hirasawa, Mamoru Komachi |
| 16:07 | Goku's Participation in WAT 2020 Dongzhe Wang, Ohnmar Htun |
| 16:19 | The ADAPT Centre's Neural MT Systems for the WAT 2020 Document-Level Translation Task Wandri Jooste, Rejwanul Haque, Andy Way |
| 16:31 | The University of Tokyo's Submissions to the WAT 2020 Shared Task Matīss Rikters, Toshiaki Nakazawa, Ryokan Ri |
| 16:43 | Improving NMT via Filtered Back Translation Nikhil Jaiswal, Mayur Patidar, Surabhi Kumari, Manasi Patwardhan, Shirish Karande, Puneet Agarwal, Lovekesh Vig |
| 16:55 | 🕑 |
| 17:00 | Research Paper II |
| 17:00 | A parallel evaluation data set of software documentation with document structure annotation Bianka Buschbeck, Miriam Exel |
| 17:20 | Inference-only sub-character decomposition improves translation of unseen logographic characters Danielle Saunders, Weston Feely, Bill Byrne |
| 17:40 | An Error-based Investigation of Statistical and Neural Machine Translation Performance on Hindi-to-Tamil and English-to-Tamil Akshai Ramesh, Venkatesh Balavadhani Parthasa, Rejwanul Haque, Andy Way |
| 18:00 | Closing |