The 16th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation
IWSLT 2019 – First Call for Participation
November 2nd – 3rd, 2019 – Hong Kong
http://www.iwslt.org
IMPORTANT DATES
Scientific papers:
September 1st: paper submissions
October 7th: notification of acceptance
October 13th: camera-ready paper due
Evaluation Campaign:
June: release of train and dev data
July 1st – September 8th: evaluation period
Sept 22nd: system description paper due
October 7th: review feedback
October 13th: camera-ready paper due
The International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT) is a yearly scientific workshop, associated with an open evaluation campaign on spoken language translation, where both scientific papers and system descriptions are presented. The 16th IWSLT will take place in Hong Kong, on November 2nd and 3rd, 2019.
Evaluation Campaign
IWSLT will feature three evaluation tasks focusing on end-to-end speech translation, multimodel models and spontaneous speech:
Speech translation of audiovisual content: HowTo and TED and real lectures from English to Portuguese and German
Clean speech translation of spontaneous, disfluent telephone conversations from Spanish to English
Text translation on a less resourced language pair: English to Czech
Training and development data for each task will be released to the participants through the workshop website at the beginning of June 2019. The evaluation period will be from July 1st to September 8th 2019.
Scientific papers
The IWSLT invites submissions of scientific papers to be published in the workshop proceedings and presented in dedicated technical sessions during the workshop, either in oral or poster format. The workshop welcomes high quality, original contributions covering theoretical and practical issues in the fields of automatic speech recognition and machine translation that are applied to spoken language translation. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
MT and SLT approaches
End-to-End models for SLT
MT and SLT evaluation
Language resources for MT and SLT
Open source software for ASR, MT and SLT
Multilingual ASR and TTS
Multimodal speech and text translation
Architectures for ASR, MT and SLT
Adaptation for ASR, MT and SLT
Post- and Pre-processing for ASR, MT and SLT
Efficiency in ASR, MT and SLT