WAT 2020

Workshop on Asian Translation


The seventh Workshop on Asian Translation (WAT 2020) was held online by the joint conference of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP 2020) on 4 December 2020.

lotus.kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp/WAT/WAT2020/

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 6 November
Workshop 4 December

Shared tasks

  • Document-level
  • Scientific paper
  • Patent
  • Newswire
  • News commentary
  • Information technology and wikinews
  • Mixed-domain
  • Indic
  • Multimodal

Schedule

   
10:00 - 10:05 Welcome
10:05 - 11:05 Research Paper I
10:05 - 10:25 An Effective Optimization Method for Neural Machine Translation: The Case of English-Persian Bilingually Low-Resource Scenario
Benyamin Ahmadnia, Bonnie Dorr
10:25 - 10:45 Transformer-based Double-token Bidirectional Autoregressive Decoding in Neural Machine Translation
Kenji Imamura, Eiichiro Sumita
10:45 - 11:05 Translation of New Named Entities from English to Chinese
Zizheng Zhang, Tosho Hirasawa, Wei Houjing, Masahiro Kaneko, Mamoru Komachi
11:05 - 11:10 🕑
11:10 - 12:00 Shared Task I - ASPEC / JIJI / Multimodal En-Ja
11:10 - 11:24 Task Descriptions and Results
Toshiaki Nakazawa, Isao Goto, Hideki Nakayama
11:24 - 11:36 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 - 11:48 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 - 12:00 TMU Japanese-English Multimodal Machine Translation System for WAT 2020
Hiroto Tamura, Tosho Hirasawa, Masahiro Kaneko, Mamoru Komachi
12:00 - 14:00 🍴
14:00 - 15:39 Shared Task II - Indic Multilingual / UFAL EnOdia / Multimodal En-Hi / Hinden
14:00 - 14:15 Task Descriptions and Results
Raj Dabre, Shantipriya Parida
14:15 - 14:27 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 - 14:39 NICT’s Submission To WAT 2020: How Effective Are Simple Many-To-Many Neural Machine Translation Models?
Raj Dabre, Abhisek Chakrabarty
14:39 - 14:51 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 - 15:03 Multimodal Neural Machine Translation for English to Hindi
Sahinur Rahman Laskar, Abdullah Faiz Ur Rahman Khilji, Partha Pakray, Sivaji Bandyopadhyay
15:03 - 15:15 The ADAPT Centre’s Participation in WAT 2020 English-to-Odia Translation Task
Prashanth Nayak, Rejwanul Haque, Andy Way
15:15 - 15:27 NLPRL Odia-English: Indic Language Neural Machine Translation System
Rupjyoti Baruah, Rajesh Kumar Mundotiya
15:27 - 15:39 WT: Wipro AI Submissions to the WAT 2020
Santanu Pal
15:39 - 15:45 🕑
15:45 - 16:55 Shared Task III - JPC / BSD
15:45 - 15:55 Task Descriptions and Results
Chenchen Ding, Toshiaki Nakazawa
15:55 - 16:07 Korean to Japanese Neural Machine Translation System using Hanja Information
Hwichan Kim, Tosho Hirasawa, Mamoru Komachi
16:07 - 16:19 Goku’s Participation in WAT 2020
Dongzhe Wang, Ohnmar Htun
16:19 - 16:31 The ADAPT Centre’s Neural MT Systems for the WAT 2020 Document-Level Translation Task
Wandri Jooste, Rejwanul Haque, Andy Way
16:31 - 16:43 The University of Tokyo’s Submissions to the WAT 2020 Shared Task
Matīss Rikters, Toshiaki Nakazawa, Ryokan Ri
16:43 - 16:55 Improving NMT via Filtered Back Translation
Nikhil Jaiswal, Mayur Patidar, Surabhi Kumari, Manasi Patwardhan, Shirish Karande, Puneet Agarwal, Lovekesh Vig
16:55 - 17:00 🕑
17:00 - 18:00 Research Paper II
17:00 - 17:20 A parallel evaluation data set of software documentation with document structure annotation
Bianka Buschbeck, Miriam Exel
17:20 - 17:40 Inference-only sub-character decomposition improves translation of unseen logographic characters
Danielle Saunders, Weston Feely, Bill Byrne
17:40 - 18:00 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

Want to learn more about WAT 2020?


Edit this article →

Machine Translate is created and edited by contributors like you!

Learn more about contributing →

Licensed under CC-BY-SA-4.0.

Cite this article →