WAT 2021
Workshop on Asian Translation
The eighth Workshop on Asian Translation (WAT 2021) was held by the joint conference of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP 2021) on 6 August, 2021, in Bangkok, Thailand.
lotus.kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp/WAT/WAT2021/
Important dates
| Shared task submission | 3 May |
| Research paper submission | 3 May |
| System description paper for shared tasks submission | 24 May |
| Notification of acceptance for research papers | 31 May |
| Review feedback of system description papers | 31 May |
| Camera-ready deadline | 7 June |
| Workshop | 6 August |
Shared tasks
- Document-level
- Multimodal
- Indic
- ALT+
- Patent
- News commentary
- Restricted
Schedule
| 07:00 - 7:05 | Welcome Toshiaki Nakazawa |
| 07:05 - 07:45 | Invited Talk Chair: Raj Dabre |
| 07:05 - 07:45 | Massively Multilingual Translation and Evaluation Francisco Guzmán, Angela Fan |
| 07:45 - 07:50 | 🕑 |
| 07:50 - 09:30 | Shared Task I Restricted / ALT+UCSY / NICT-SAP Chair: Akiko Eriguchi, Chenchen Ding, Raj Dabre |
| 07:50 - 08:10 | Task descriptions and results Restricted Akiko Eriguchi ALT+UCSY Chenchen Ding NICT-SAP Raj Dabre |
| 08:10 - 08:20 | NHK’s Soft Lexically Constrained Neural Machine Translation at WAT 2021 Hideya Mino, Kazutaka Kinugawa, Hitoshi Ito, Isao Goto, Ichiro Yamada, Takenobu Tokunaga |
| 08:20 - 08:30 | Input Augmentation Improves Constrained Beam Search for Neural Machine Translation: NTT at WAT 2021 Katsuki Chousa, Makoto Morishita |
| 08:30 - 08:40 | NICT’s Neural Machine Translation Systems for the WAT21 Restricted Translation Task Zuchao Li, Masao Utiyama, Eiichiro Sumita, Hai Zhao |
| 08:40 - 08:50 | Machine Translation with the Pre-specified Target-side Words Using a Semi-autoregressive Model Seiichiro Kondo, Aomi Koyama, Tomoshige Kiyuna, Tosho Hirasawa, Mamoru Komachi |
| 08:50 - 09:00 | NECTEC’s Participation in WAT-2021 Zar Zar Hlaing, Ye Kyaw Thu, Thazin Myint Oo, Mya Ei San, Sasiporn Usanavasin, Ponrudee Netisopakul, Thepchai Supnithi |
| 09:00 - 09:10 | Hybrid Statistical Machine Translation for English-Myanmar: UTYCC-Team1 Submission to WAT-2021 Ye Kyaw Thu, Thazin Myint Oo, Hlaing Myat Nwe, Khaing Zar Mon, Nang Aeindray Kyaw, Naing Linn Phyo, Nann Hwan Khun, Hnin Aye Thant |
| 09:10 - 09:20 | NICT-2 Translation System at WAT-2021: Applying a Pretrained Multilingual Encoder-Decoder Model to Low-resource Language Pairs Kenji Imamura, Eiichiro Sumita |
| 09:20 - 09:30 | Rakuten’s Participation in WAT 2021: Examining the Effectiveness of Pre-trained Models for Multilingual and Multimodal Machine Translation Raymond Hendy Susanto, Dongzhe Wang, Sunil Yadav, Mausam Jain, Ohnmar Htun |
| 09:30 - 09:35 | 🕑 |
| 09:35 - 10:15 | Invited Talk II Chair: Isao Goto |
| 09:35 - 10:15 | Understanding and Improving Context Usage in Context-aware Translation Graham Neubig |
| 10:15 - 10:20 | 🕑 |
| 10:20 - 11:40 | Research Paper/Findings I Hidaya Mino |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | BTS: Back TranScription for Speech-to-Text Post-Processor using Text-to-Speech-to-Text Chanjun Park, Jaehyung Seo, Seolhwa Lee, Chanhee Lee, Hyeonseok Moon, Sugyeong Eo, Heuiseok Lim |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Zero-pronoun Data Augmentation for Japanese-to-English Translation Ryokan Ri, Toshiaki Nakazawa, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Evaluation Scheme of Focal Translation for Japanese Partially Amended Statutes Takahiro Yamakoshi, Takahiro Komamizu, Yasuhiro Ogawa, Katsuhiko Toyama |
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Joint Optimization of Tokenization and Downstream Model Tatsuya Hiraoka, Sho Takase, Kei Uchiumi, Atsushi Keyaki, Naoaki Okazaki |
| 11:40 - 13:00 | 🍴 |
| 13:00 - 14:40 | Shared Task II - JPC, Hindi and Malayalam Multimodal, Japanese Multimodal Chair: Shohei Higashiyama, Shantipriya Parida, Hideki Nakayama, Chenhui Chu |
| 13:00 - 13:20 | Task Descriptions and Results: JPC Shohei Higashiyama Hindi and Malayalam Multimodal Shantipriya Parida Japanese Multimodal Hideki Nakayama, Chenhui Chu |
| 13:20 - 13:30 | TMU NMT System with Japanese BART for the Patent task of WAT 2021 Hwichan Kim, Mamoru Komachi |
| 13:30 - 13:40 | System Description for Transperfect Wiktor Stribiżew, Fred Bane, José Conceição, Anna Zaretskaya |
| 13:40 - 13:50 | Bering Lab’s Submissions on WAT 2021 Shared Task Heesoo Park, Dongjun Lee |
| 13:50 - 14:00 | NLPHut’s Participation at WAT2021 Shantipriya Parida, Subhadarshi Panda, Ketan Kotwal, Amulya Dash, Satya Ranjan Dash, Yashvardhan Sharma, Petr Motlicek, Ondřej Bojar |
| 14:00 - 14:10 | Improved English to Hindi Multimodal Neural Machine Translation Sahinur Rahman Laskar, Abdullah Faiz Ur Rahman Khilji, Darsh Kaushik, Partha Pakray, Sivaji Bandyopadhyay |
| 14:10 - 14:20 | IITP at WAT 2021: System description for English-Hindi Multimodal Translation Task Baban Gain, Dibyanayan Bandyopadhyay, Asif Ekbal |
| 14:20 - 14:30 | ViTA: Visual-Linguistic Translation by Aligning Object Tags Kshitij Gupta, Devansh Gautam, Radhika Mamidi |
| 14:30 - 14:40 | TMEKU System for the WAT2021 Multimodal Translation Task Yuting Zhao, Mamoru Komachi, Tomoyuki Kajiwara, Chenhui Chu |
| 14:40 - 14:45 | 🕑 |
| 14:45 - 15:45 | Research Paper/Findings II Chair: Shantipriya Parida |
| 14:45 - 15:05 | Optimal Word Segmentation for Neural Machine Translation into Dravidian Languages Prajit Dhar, Arianna Bisazza, Gertjan van Noord |
| 15:05 - 15:25 | Itihasa: A large-scale corpus for Sanskrit to English translation Rahul Aralikatte, Miryam de Lhoneux, Anoop Kunchukuttan, Anders Søgaard |
| 15:25 - 15:45 | IndoCollex: A Testbed for Morphological Transformation of Indonesian Word Colloquialism Haryo Akbarianto Wibowo, Made Nindyatama Nityasya, Afra Feyza Akyüek, Suci Fitriany, Alham Fikri Aji, Radityo Eko Prasojo, Derry Tanti Wijaya |
| 15:45 - 15:50 | 🕑 |
| 15:50 - 17:20 | Shared Task III - MultiIndicMT Chair: Raj Dabre |
| 15:50 - 16:00 | Task Descriptions and Results: MultiIndicMT Shantipriya Parida |
| 16:00 - 16:10 | NICT-5’s Submission To WAT 2021: MBART Pre-training And In-Domain Fine Tuning For Indic Languages Raj Dabre, Abhisek Chakrabarty |
| 16:10 - 16:20 | How far can we get with one GPU in 100 hours? CoAStaL at MultiIndicMT Shared Task Rahul Aralikatte, Héctor Ricardo Murrieta Bello, Daniel Hershcovich, Marcel Bollmann, Anders Søgaard |
| 16:20 - 16:30 | IIIT Hyderabad Submission To WAT 2021: Efficient Multilingual NMT systems for Indian languages Sourav Kumar, Salil Aggarwal, Dipti Sharma |
| 16:30 - 16:40 | Language Relatedness and Lexical Closeness can help Improve Multilingual NMT: [email protected] WAT2021 Jyotsana Khatri, Nikhil Saini, Pushpak Bhattacharyya |
| 16:40 - 16:50 | Samsung R&D Institute Poland submission to WAT 2021 Indic Language Multilingual Task Adam Dobrowolski, Marcin Szymański, Marcin Chochowski, Paweł Przybysz |
| 16:50 - 17:00 | Multilingual Machine Translation Systems at WAT 2021: One-to-Many and Many-to-One Transformer based NMT Shivam Mhaskar, Aditya Jain, Aakash Banerjee, Pushpak Bhattacharyya |
| 17:00 - 17:10 | IITP-MT at WAT2021: Indic-English Multilingual Neural Machine Translation using Romanized Vocabulary Ramakrishna Appicharla, Kamal Kumar Gupta, Asif Ekbal, Pushpak Bhattacharyya |
| 17:10 - 17:20 | ANVITA Machine Translation System for WAT 2021 MultiIndicMT Shared Task Pavanpankaj Vegi, Sivabhavani J, Biswajit Paul, Chitra Viswanathan, Prasanna Kumar K R |
| 17:20 - 17:25 | Closing Toshiaki Nakazawa |