WMT06
Workshop on Machine Translation
Location
- New York, United States of America
Links
Shared Tasks
Schedule
Day 1
| 8:45 | Opening Remarks |
| 9:00 | Session 1: Paper Presentations Morpho-syntactic Information for Automatic Error Analysis of Statistical Machine Translation Output Maja Popovic, Adrià de Gispert, Deepa Gupta, Patrik Lambert, Hermann Ney, José B. Mariño, Marcello Federico, Rafael Banchs |
| 9:30 | Initial Explorations in English to Turkish Statistical Machine Translation İlknur Durgar El-Kahlout, Kemal Oflazer |
| 10:00 | Morpho-syntactic Arabic Preprocessing for Arabic to English Statistical Machine Translation Anas El Isbihani, Shahram Khadivi, Oliver Bender, Hermann Ney |
| 10:30 | ☕️ |
| 11:00 | Session 2: Paper Presentations Quasi-Synchronous Grammars: Alignment by Soft Projection of Syntactic Dependencies David Smith, Jason Eisner |
| 11:30 | Why Generative Phrase Models Underperform Surface Heuristics John DeNero, Dan Gillick, James Zhang, Dan Klein |
| 12:00 | Phrase-Based SMT with Shallow Tree-Phrases Philippe Langlais, Fabrizio Gotti |
| 12:30 | 🍴 |
| 14:00 | Session 3: Paper Presentations Searching for alignments in SMT. A novel approach based on an Estimation of Distribution Algorithm Luis Rodríguez, Ismael García-Varea, Jose A. Gámez |
| 14:30 | Invited Talk Kevin Knight |
| 15:30 | ☕️ |
| 16:00 | Session 4: Paper Presentations Discriminative Reordering Models for Statistical Machine Translation Richard Zens, Hermann Ney |
| 16:30 | Generalized Stack Decoding Algorithms for Statistical Machine Translation Daniel Ortiz-Martínez, Ismael García-Varea, Francisco Casacuberta |
| 17:00 | N-Gram Posterior Probabilities for Statistical Machine Translation Richard Zens, Hermann Ney |
Day 2
| 9:00 | Session 5: Paper Presentations Partitioning Parallel Documents Using Binary Segmentation Jia Xu, Richard Zens, Hermann Ney |
| 9:30 | Contextual Bitext-Derived Paraphrases in Automatic MT Evaluation Karolina Owczarzak, Declan Groves, Josef Van Genabith, Andy Way |
| 10:00 | How Many Bits Are Needed To Store Probabilities for Phrase-Based Translation? Marcello Federico, Nicola Bertoldi |
| 10:30 | ☕️ |
| 11:00 | Session 6: Shared Task Manual and Automatic Evaluation of Machine Translation between European Languages Philipp Koehn, Christof Monz |
| 11:30 | NTT System Description for the WMT2006 Shared Task Taro Watanabe, Hajime Tsukada, Hideki Isozaki |
| 11:45 | Mood at work: Ramses versus Pharaoh Alexandre Patry, Fabrizio Gotti, Philippe Langlais |
| 12:00 | 🍴 |
| 14:00 | Session 7: Shared Task Stochastic Inversion Transduction Grammars for Obtaining Word Phrases for Phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation Joan Andreu Sánchez, José Miguel Benedí |
| 14:15 | PORTAGE: with Smoothed Phrase Tables and Segment Choice Models Howard Johnson, Fatiha Sadat, George Foster, Roland Kuhn, Michel Simard, Eric Joanis, Samuel Larkin |
| 14:30 | Syntax Augmented Machine Translation via Chart Parsing Andreas Zollmann, Ashish Venugopal |
| 14:45 | TALP Phrase-based statistical translation system for European language pairs Marta R. Costa-jussà, Josep M. Crego, Adrià de Gispert, Patrik Lambert, Maxim Khalilov, José B. Mariño, José A. R. Fonollosa, Rafael Banchs |
| 15:00 | Phramer - An Open Source Statistical Phrase-Based Translator Marian Olteanu, Chris Davis, Ionut Volosen, Dan Moldovan |
| 15:15 | Language Models and Reranking for Machine Translation Marian Olteanu, Pasin Suriyentrakorn, Dan Moldovan |
| 15:30 | ☕️ |
| 16:00 | Session 8: Shared Task Constraining the Phrase-Based, Joint Probability Statistical Translation Model Alexandra Birch, Chris Callison-Burch, Miles Osborne, Philipp Koehn |
| 16:15 | Microsoft Research Treelet Translation System: NAACL 2006 Europarl Evaluation Arul Menezes, Kristina Toutanova, Chris Quirk |
| 16:30 | N-gram-based SMT System Enhanced with Reordering Patterns Josep M. Crego, Adrià de Gispert, Patrik Lambert, Marta R. Costa-jussà, Maxim Khalilov, Rafael Banchs, José B. Mariño, José A. R. Fonollosa |
| 16:45 | The LDV-COMBO system for SMT Jesús Giménez, Lluís Màrquez |
| 17:00 | Panel Discussion |
Results
General Task
Full results of the shared task: Manual and Automatic Evaluation of Machine Translation between European Languages