WAT 2019

Workshop on Asian Translation


The sixth Workshop on Asian Translation (WAT 2019) was held on 4 November, 2019, in Hong Kong.

lotus.kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp/WAT/WAT2019/

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 4 November

Shared tasks

Schedule

   
09:00 - 09:30 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
09:30 - 10:30 Research Paper I
09:30 - 09:50 Compact and Robust Models for Japanese-English Character-level Machine Translation
Jinan Dai, Kazunori Yamaguchi
09:50 - 10:10 Controlling Japanese Honorifics in English-to-Japanese Neural Machine Translation
Weston Feely, Eva Hasler, Adrià de Gispert
10:10 - 10:30 Designing the Business Conversation Corpus
Matīss Rikters, Ryokan Ri, Tong Li, Toshiaki Nakazawa
10:30 - 10:50 Poster booster I
10:50 - 12:30 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 onWAT 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 🍴
14:00 - 14:45 Invited talk
Dr. Desmond Elliot
14:45 - 15:05 Poster booster II
15:05 - 15:10 Commemorative photo
15:10 - 16:30 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 - 17:30 Research paper II
16:30 - 16:50 Sentiment Aware Neural Machine Translation
Chenglei Si, Kui Wu, Ai Ti Aw, Min-Yen Kan
16:50 - 17:10 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 - 17:30 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 - 17:35 Closing

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