Wednesday, November 10, 2021 | |
| 9:00–9:10 | Opening Remarks |
| 9:10–10:15 Session 1: Shared Task Overview Papers I (Session Chair: Philipp Koehn) | |
| 9:10–10:15 | Findings of the 2021 Conference on Machine Translation (WMT21) Farhad Akhbardeh, Arkady Arkhangorodsky, Magdalena Biesialska, Ondřej Bojar, Rajen Chatterjee, Vishrav Chaudhary, Marta R. Costa-jussa, Cristina España-Bonet, Angela Fan, Christian Federmann, Markus Freitag, Yvette Graham, Roman Grundkiewicz, Barry Haddow, Leonie Harter, Kenneth Heafield, Christopher Homan, Matthias Huck, Kwabena Amponsah-Kaakyire, Jungo Kasai, Daniel Khashabi, Kevin Knight, Tom Kocmi, Philipp Koehn, Nicholas Lourie, Christof Monz, Makoto Morishita, Masaaki Nagata, Ajay Nagesh, Toshiaki Nakazawa, Matteo Negri, Santanu Pal, Allahsera Auguste Tapo, Marco Turchi, Valentin Vydrin and Marcos Zampieri |
| 9:00–9:25 | News Translation Task |
| 9:25–9:35 | Similar Languages Translation Task |
| 9:35–9:45 | Automatic Postediting Task |
| 9:45–9:55 | Triangular Translation Task |
| 9:55–10:05 | Indo-European Multilingual Translation Task |
| 10:05–10:15 | Findings of the WMT 2021 Shared Task on Large-Scale Multilingual Machine Translation Guillaume Wenzek, Vishrav Chaudhary, Angela Fan, Sahir Gomez, Naman Goyal, Somya Jain, Douwe Kiela, Tristan Thrush and Francisco Guzmán |
| 10:15–10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 10:30–12:00 News Translation Task | |
| 10:30–12:00 | GTCOM Neural Machine Translation Systems for WMT21 Chao Bei and Hao Zong |
| 10:30–12:00 | The University of Edinburgh’s English-German and English-Hausa Submissions to the WMT21 News Translation Task Pinzhen Chen, Jindřich Helcl, Ulrich Germann, Laurie Burchell, Nikolay Bogoychev, Antonio Valerio Miceli Barone, Jonas Waldendorf, Alexandra Birch and Kenneth Heafield |
| 10:30–12:00 | Tune in: The AFRL WMT21 News-Translation Systems Grant Erdmann, Jeremy Gwinnup and Tim Anderson |
| 10:30–12:00 | The TALP-UPC Participation in WMT21 News Translation Task: an mBART-based NMT Approach Carlos Escolano, Ioannis Tsiamas, Christine Basta, Javier Ferrando, Marta R. Costa-jussa and José A. R. Fonollosa |
| 10:30–12:00 | CUNI Systems in WMT21: Revisiting Backtranslation Techniques for English-Czech NMT Petr Gebauer, Ondřej Bojar, Vojtěch Švandelík and Martin Popel |
| 10:30–12:00 | Ensembling of Distilled Models from Multi-task Teachers for Constrained Resource Language Pairs Amr Hendy, Esraa A. Gad, Mohamed Abdelghaffar, Jailan S. ElMosalami, Mohamed Afify, Ahmed Y. Tawfik and Hany Hassan Awadalla |
| 10:30–12:00 | Miðeind’s WMT 2021 Submission Haukur Barri Símonarson, Vésteinn Snæbjarnarson, Pétur Orri Ragnarson, Haukur Jónsson and Vilhjalmur Thorsteinsson |
| 10:30–12:00 | Allegro.eu Submission to WMT21 News Translation Task Mikołaj Koszowski, Karol Grzegorczyk and Tsimur Hadeliya |
| 10:30–12:00 | Illinois Japanese $$ English News Translation for WMT 2021 Giang Le, Shinka Mori and Lane Schwartz |
| 10:30–12:00 | MiSS@WMT21: Contrastive Learning-reinforced Domain Adaptation in Neural Machine Translation Zuchao Li, Masao Utiyama, Eiichiro Sumita and Hai Zhao |
| 10:30–12:00 | The Fujitsu DMATH Submissions for WMT21 News Translation and Biomedical Translation Tasks Ander Martinez |
| 10:30–12:00 | Adam Mickiewicz University’s English-Hausa Submissions to the WMT 2021 News Translation Task Artur Nowakowski and Tomasz Dwojak |
| 10:30–12:00 | eTranslation’s Submissions to the WMT 2021 News Translation Task Csaba Oravecz, Katina Bontcheva, David Kolovratník, Bhavani Bhaskar, Michael Jellinghaus and Andreas Eisele |
| 10:30–12:00 | The University of Edinburgh’s Bengali-Hindi Submissions to the WMT21 News Translation Task Proyag Pal, Alham Fikri Aji, Pinzhen Chen and Sukanta Sen |
| 10:30–12:00 | The Volctrans GLAT System: Non-autoregressive Translation Meets WMT21 Lihua Qian, Yi Zhou, Zaixiang Zheng, Yaoming ZHU, Zehui Lin, Jiangtao Feng, Shanbo Cheng, Lei Li, Mingxuan Wang and Hao Zhou |
| 10:30–12:00 | NVIDIA NeMo’s Neural Machine Translation Systems for English-German and English-Russian News and Biomedical Tasks at WMT21 Sandeep Subramanian, Oleksii Hrinchuk, Virginia Adams and Oleksii Kuchaiev |
| 10:30–12:00 | Facebook AI’s WMT21 News Translation Task Submission Chau Tran, Shruti Bhosale, James Cross, Philipp Koehn, Sergey Edunov and Angela Fan |
| 10:30–12:00 | Tencent Translation System for the WMT21 News Translation Task Longyue Wang, Mu Li, Fangxu Liu, Shuming Shi, Zhaopeng Tu, Xing Wang, Shuangzhi Wu, Jiali Zeng and Wen Zhang |
| 10:30–12:00 | HW-TSC’s Participation in the WMT 2021 News Translation Shared Task Daimeng Wei, Zongyao Li, Zhanglin Wu, Zhengzhe Yu, Xiaoyu Chen, Hengchao Shang, Jiaxin Guo, Minghan Wang, Lizhi Lei, Min Zhang, Hao Yang and Ying Qin |
| 10:30–12:00 | LISN @ WMT 2021 Jitao Xu, Minh Quang Pham, Sadaf Abdul Rauf and François Yvon |
| 10:30–12:00 | WeChat Neural Machine Translation Systems for WMT21 Xianfeng Zeng, Yijin Liu, Ernan Li, Qiu Ran, Fandong Meng, Peng Li, Jinan Xu and Jie Zhou |
| 10:30–12:00 | Small Model and In-Domain Data Are All You Need Hui Zeng |
| 10:30–12:00 | The Mininglamp Machine Translation System for WMT21 Shiyu Zhao, Xiaopu Li, Minghui Wu and Jie Hao |
| 10:30–12:00 | The NiuTrans Machine Translation Systems for WMT21 Shuhan Zhou, Tao Zhou, Binghao Wei, Yingfeng Luo, Yongyu Mu, Zefan Zhou, Chenglong Wang, Xuanjun Zhou, Chuanhao Lv, Yi Jing, Laohu Wang, Jingnan Zhang, Canan Huang, Zhongxiang Yan, Chi Hu, Bei Li, Tong Xiao and Jingbo Zhu |
| 10:30–12:00 Similar Languages Translation Task | |
| 10:30–12:00 | Improving Similar Language Translation With Transfer Learning Ife Adebara and Muhammad Abdul-Mageed |
| 10:30–12:00 | T4T Solution: WMT21 Similar Language Task for the Spanish-Catalan and Spanish-Portuguese Language Pair Miguel Canals and Marc Raventós Tato |
| 10:30–12:00 | Neural Machine Translation for Tamil–Telugu Pair Sahinur Rahman Laskar, Bishwaraj Paul, Prottay Kumar Adhikary, Partha Pakray and Sivaji Bandyopadhyay |
| 10:30–12:00 | Low Resource Similar Language Neural Machine Translation for Tamil-Telugu Vandan Mujadia and Dipti Sharma |
| 10:30–12:00 | Similar Language Translation for Catalan, Portuguese and Spanish Using Marian NMT Reinhard Rapp |
| 10:30–12:00 | NITK-UoH: Tamil-Telugu Machine Translation Systems for the WMT21 Similar Language Translation Task Richard Saldanha, Ananthanarayana V. S, Anand Kumar M and Parameswari Krishnamurthy |
| 10:30–12:00 | A3-108 Machine Translation System for Similar Language Translation Shared Task 2021 Saumitra Yadav and Manish Shrivastava |
| 10:30–12:00 Automatic Post-Editing Task | |
| 10:30–12:00 | Netmarble AI Center’s WMT21 Automatic Post-Editing Shared Task Submission Shinhyeok Oh, Sion Jang, Hu Xu, Shounan An and Insoo Oh |
| 10:30–12:00 | Adapting Neural Machine Translation for Automatic Post-Editing Abhishek Sharma, Prabhakar Gupta and Anil Nelakanti |
| 10:30–12:00 Triangular Translation Task | |
| 10:30–12:00 | ISTIC’s Triangular Machine Translation System for WMT2021 Hangcheng Guo, Wenbin Liu, Yanqing He, Tian Lan, Hongjiao Xu, Zhenfeng Wu and You Pan |
| 10:30–12:00 | HW-TSC’s Participation in the WMT 2021 Triangular MT Shared Task Zongyao Li, Daimeng Wei, Hengchao Shang, Xiaoyu Chen, Zhanglin Wu, Zhengzhe Yu, Jiaxin Guo, Minghan Wang, Lizhi Lei, Min Zhang, Hao Yang and Ying Qin |
| 10:30–12:00 | DUTNLP Machine Translation System for WMT21 Triangular Translation Task Huan Liu, Junpeng Liu, Kaiyu Huang and Degen Huang |
| 10:30–12:00 | Pivot Based Transfer Learning for Neural Machine Translation: CFILT IITB @ WMT 2021 Triangular MT Shivam Mhaskar and Pushpak Bhattacharyya |
| 10:30–12:00 | Papago’s Submissions to the WMT21 Triangular Translation Task Jeonghyeok Park, Hyunjoong Kim and Hyunchang Cho |
| 10:30–12:00 Indo-European Multilingual Translation Task | |
| 10:30–12:00 | Machine Translation of Low-Resource Indo-European Languages Wei-Rui Chen and Muhammad Abdul-Mageed |
| 10:30–12:00 | CUNI systems for WMT21: Multilingual Low-Resource Translation for Indo-European Languages Shared Task Josef Jon, Michal Novák, João Paulo Aires, Dusan Varis and Ondřej Bojar |
| 10:30–12:00 | Transfer Learning with Shallow Decoders: BSC at WMT2021’s Multilingual Low-Resource Translation for Indo-European Languages Shared Task Ksenia Kharitonova, Ona de Gibert Bonet, Jordi Armengol-Estapé, Mar Rodriguez i Alvarez and Maite Melero |
| 10:30–12:00 | EdinSaar@WMT21: North-Germanic Low-Resource Multilingual NMT Svetlana Tchistiakova, Jesujoba Alabi, Koel Dutta Chowdhury, Sourav Dutta and Dana Ruiter |
| 10:30–12:00 | TenTrans Multilingual Low-Resource Translation System for WMT21 Indo-European Languages Task Han Yang, Bojie Hu, Wanying Xie, ambyera han, Pan Liu, Jinan Xu and Qi Ju |
| 10:30–12:00 Large-Scale Multilingual Translation Task | |
| 10:30–12:00 | The University of Maryland, College Park Submission to Large-Scale Multilingual Shared Task at WMT 2021 Saptarashmi Bandyopadhyay, Tasnim Kabir, Zizhen Lian and Marine Carpuat |
| 10:30–12:00 | To Optimize, or Not to Optimize, That Is the Question: TelU-KU Models for WMT21 Large-Scale Multilingual Machine Translation Sari Dewi Budiwati, Tirana Fatyanosa, Mahendra Data, Dedy Rahman Wijaya, Patrick Adolf Telnoni, Arie Ardiyanti Suryani, Agus Pratondo and Masayoshi Aritsugi |
| 10:30–12:00 | MMTAfrica: Multilingual Machine Translation for African Languages Chris Chinenye Emezue and Bonaventure F. P. Dossou |
| 10:30–12:00 | The LMU Munich System for the WMT 2021 Large-Scale Multilingual Machine Translation Shared Task Wen Lai, Jindřich Libovický and Alexander Fraser |
| 10:30–12:00 | Back-translation for Large-Scale Multilingual Machine Translation Baohao Liao, Shahram Khadivi and Sanjika Hewavitharana |
| 10:30–12:00 | Maastricht University’s Large-Scale Multilingual Machine Translation System for WMT 2021 Danni Liu and Jan Niehues |
| 10:30–12:00 | Data Processing Matters: SRPH-Konvergen AI’s Machine Translation System for WMT’21 Lintang Sutawika and Jan Christian Blaise Cruz |
| 10:30–12:00 | TenTrans Large-Scale Multilingual Machine Translation System for WMT21 Wanying Xie, Bojie Hu, Han Yang, Dong Yu and Qi Ju |
| 10:30–12:00 | Multilingual Machine Translation Systems from Microsoft for WMT21 Shared Task Jian Yang, Shuming Ma, Haoyang Huang, Dongdong Zhang, Li Dong, Shaohan Huang, Alexandre Muzio, Saksham Singhal, Hany Hassan, Xia Song and Furu Wei |
| 10:30–12:00 | HW-TSC’s Participation in the WMT 2021 Large-Scale Multilingual Translation Task Zhengzhe Yu, Daimeng Wei, Zongyao Li, Hengchao Shang, Xiaoyu Chen, Zhanglin Wu, Jiaxin Guo, Minghan Wang, Lizhi Lei, Min Zhang, Hao Yang and Ying Qin |
| 12:00–13:00 | Lunch Break |
| 13:00–14:15 Session 3: Panel Discussion on Evaluation with Nitika Mathur (Univ. Melbourne), Benjamin Marie (NICT), Ricardo Rei (Unbabel), Tom Kocmi (Microsoft) and moderated by Markus Freitag (Google) | |
| 14:15–14:45 | Mini Break |
| 14:45–16:15 Session 4: Research Papers on Evaluation (Session Chair: Antonis Anastasopoulos) | |
| 14:45–16:15 | On the Stability of System Rankings at WMT Rebecca Knowles |
| 14:45–16:15 | To Ship or Not to Ship: An Extensive Evaluation of Automatic Metrics for Machine Translation Tom Kocmi, Christian Federmann, Roman Grundkiewicz, Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt, Hitokazu Matsushita and Arul Menezes |
| 14:45–16:15 | Just Ask! Evaluating Machine Translation by Asking and Answering Questions Mateusz Krubiński, Erfan Ghadery, Marie-Francine Moens and Pavel Pecina |
| 14:45–16:15 | A Fine-Grained Analysis of BERTScore Michael Hanna and Ondřej Bojar |
| 14:45–16:15 | Evaluating Multiway Multilingual NMT in the Turkic Languages Jamshidbek Mirzakhalov, Anoop Babu, Aigiz Kunafin, Ahsan Wahab, Bekhzodbek Moydinboyev, Sardana Ivanova, Mokhiyakhon Uzokova, Shaxnoza Pulatova, Duygu Ataman, Julia Kreutzer, Francis Tyers, Orhan Firat, John Licato and Sriram Chellappan |
| 14:45–16:15 | Extending Challenge Sets to Uncover Gender Bias in Machine Translation: Impact of Stereotypical Verbs and Adjectives Jonas-Dario Troles and Ute Schmid |
| 16:15-16:45 | Coffee Break |
| 16:45–18:15 Session 5: Research Papers on Data (Session Chair: Mathias Müller) | |
| 16:45–18:15 | Continual Learning in Multilingual NMT via Language-Specific Embeddings Alexandre Berard |
| 16:45–18:15 | DELA Corpus - A Document-Level Corpus Annotated with Context-Related Issues Sheila Castilho, João Lucas Cavalheiro Camargo, Miguel Menezes and Andy Way |
| 16:45–18:15 | Multilingual Domain Adaptation for NMT: Decoupling Language and Domain Information with Adapters Asa Cooper Stickland, Alexandre Berard and Vassilina Nikoulina |
| 16:45–18:15 | Translation Transformers Rediscover Inherent Data Domains Maksym Del, Elizaveta Korotkova and Mark Fishel |
| 16:45–18:15 | Improving Machine Translation of Rare and Unseen Word Senses Viktor Hangya, Qianchu Liu, Dario Stojanovski, Alexander Fraser and Anna Korhonen |
| 16:45–18:15 | Pushing the Right Buttons: Adversarial Evaluation of Quality Estimation Diptesh Kanojia, Marina Fomicheva, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Frédéric Blain, Constantin Orăsan and Lucia Specia |
Thursday, November 11, 2021 | |
| 9:00–10:15 Session 6: Shared Task Overview Papers I | |
| 9:00–9:12 | Findings of the WMT 2021 Shared Task on Efficient Translation Kenneth Heafield, Qianqian Zhu and Roman Grundkiewicz |
| 9:12–9:24 | Findings of the WMT Shared Task on Machine Translation Using Terminologies Md Mahfuz Ibn Alam, Ivana Kvapilíková, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Laurent Besacier, Georgiana Dinu, Marcello Federico, Matthias Gallé, Kweonwoo Jung, Philipp Koehn and Vassilina Nikoulina |
| 9:24–9:36 | Findings of the WMT 2021 Biomedical Translation Shared Task: Summaries of Animal Experiments as New Test Set Lana Yeganova, Dina Wiemann, Mariana Neves, Federica Vezzani, Amy Siu, Inigo Jauregi Unanue, Maite Oronoz, Nancy Mah, Aurélie Névéol, David Martinez, Rachel Bawden, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Roland Roller, Philippe Thomas, Cristian Grozea, Olatz Perez-de-Viñaspre, Maika Vicente Navarro and Antonio Jimeno Yepes |
| 9:36–9:48 | Findings of the WMT 2021 Shared Task on Quality Estimation Lucia Specia, Frédéric Blain, Marina Fomicheva, Chrysoula Zerva, Zhenhao Li, Vishrav Chaudhary and André F. T. Martins |
| 9:48–10:00 | Findings of the WMT 2021 Shared Tasks in Unsupervised MT and Very Low Resource Supervised MT Jindřich Libovický and Alexander Fraser |
| 10:00–10:15 | Results of the WMT21 Metrics Shared Task: Evaluating Metrics with Expert-based Human Evaluations on TED and News Domain Markus Freitag, Ricardo Rei, Nitika Mathur, Chi-kiu Lo, Craig Stewart, George Foster, Alon Lavie and Ondřej Bojar |
| 10:15–10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 10:30–12:00 Efficient Translation Task | |
| 10:30–12:00 | Efficient Machine Translation with Model Pruning and Quantization Maximiliana Behnke, Nikolay Bogoychev, Alham Fikri Aji, Kenneth Heafield, Graeme Nail, Qianqian Zhu, Svetlana Tchistiakova, Jelmer van der Linde, Pinzhen Chen, Sidharth Kashyap and Roman Grundkiewicz |
| 10:30–12:00 | HW-TSC’s Participation in the WMT 2021 Efficiency Shared Task Hengchao Shang, Ting Hu, Daimeng Wei, Zongyao Li, Jianfei Feng, ZhengZhe Yu, Jiaxin Guo, Shaojun Li, Lizhi Lei, ShiMin Tao, Hao Yang, Jun Yao and Ying Qin |
| 10:30–12:00 | The NiuTrans System for the WMT 2021 Efficiency Task Chenglong Wang, Chi Hu, Yongyu Mu, Zhongxiang Yan, Siming Wu, Yimin Hu, Hang Cao, Bei Li, Ye Lin, Tong Xiao and Jingbo Zhu |
| 10:30–12:00 | TenTrans High-Performance Inference Toolkit for WMT2021 Efficiency Task Kaixin WU, Bojie Hu and Qi Ju |
| 10:30–12:00 Terminology Translation Task | |
| 10:30–12:00 | Lingua Custodia’s Participation at the WMT 2021 Machine Translation Using Terminologies Shared Task Melissa Ailem, Jingshu Liu and Raheel Qader |
| 10:30–12:00 | Kakao Enterprise’s WMT21 Machine Translation Using Terminologies Task Submission Yunju Bak, Jimin Sun, Jay Kim, Sungwon Lyu and Changmin Lee |
| 10:30–12:00 | The SPECTRANS System Description for the WMT21 Terminology Task Nicolas Ballier, Dahn Cho, Bilal Faye, Zong-You Ke, Hanna Martikainen, Mojca Pecman, Guillaume Wisniewski, Jean-Baptiste Yunès, Lichao Zhu and Maria Zimina-Poirot |
| 10:30–12:00 | Dynamic Terminology Integration for COVID-19 and Other Emerging Domains Toms Bergmanis and Mārcis Pinnis |
| 10:30–12:00 | CUNI Systems for WMT21: Terminology Translation Shared Task Josef Jon, Michal Novák, João Paulo Aires, Dusan Varis and Ondřej Bojar |
| 10:30–12:00 | PROMT Systems for WMT21 Terminology Translation Task Alexander Molchanov, Vladislav Kovalenko and Fedor Bykov |
| 10:30–12:00 | SYSTRAN @ WMT 2021: Terminology Task Minh Quang Pham, Josep Crego, Antoine Senellart, Dan Berrebbi and Jean Senellart |
| 10:30–12:00 | TermMind: Alibaba’s WMT21 Machine Translation Using Terminologies Task Submission Ke Wang, Shuqin Gu, Boxing Chen, Yu Zhao, Weihua Luo and Yuqi Zhang |
| 10:30–12:00 Biomedical Translation Task | |
| 10:30–12:00 | FJWU Participation for the WMT21 Biomedical Translation Task Sumbal Naz, Sadaf Abdul Rauf and Sami Ul Haq |
| 10:30–12:00 | High Frequent In-domain Words Segmentation and Forward Translation for the WMT21 Biomedical Task Bardia Rafieian and Marta Ruiz Costa Jussa |
| 10:30–12:00 | Huawei AARC’s Submissions to the WMT21 Biomedical Translation Task: Domain Adaption from a Practical Perspective Weixuan Wang, Wei Peng, Xupeng Meng and Qun Liu |
| 10:30–12:00 | Tencent AI Lab Machine Translation Systems for the WMT21 Biomedical Translation Task Xing Wang, Zhaopeng Tu and Shuming Shi |
| 10:30–12:00 | HW-TSC’s Submissions to the WMT21 Biomedical Translation Task Hao Yang, Zhanglin Wu, Zhengzhe Yu, Xiaoyu Chen, Daimeng Wei, Zongyao Li, Hengchao Shang, Minghan Wang, Jiaxin Guo, Lizhi Lei, chuanfei xu, Min Zhang and Ying Qin |
| 10:30–12:00 Quality Estimation Task | |
| 10:30–12:00 | RTM Super Learner Results at Quality Estimation Task Ergun Biçici |
| 10:30–12:00 | HW-TSC’s Participation at WMT 2021 Quality Estimation Shared Task Yimeng Chen, Chang Su, Yingtao Zhang, Yuxia Wang, Xiang Geng, Hao Yang, Shimin Tao, Guo Jiaxin, Wang Minghan, Min Zhang, Yujia Liu and Shujian Huang |
| 10:30–12:00 | Ensemble Fine-tuned mBERT for Translation Quality Estimation Shaika Chowdhury, Naouel Baili and Brian Vannah |
| 10:30–12:00 | The JHU-Microsoft Submission for WMT21 Quality Estimation Shared Task Shuoyang Ding, Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt, Matt Post, Christian Federmann and Philipp Koehn |
| 10:30–12:00 | TUDa at WMT21: Sentence-Level Direct Assessment with Adapters Gregor Geigle, Jonas Stadtmüller, Wei Zhao, Jonas Pfeiffer and Steffen Eger |
| 10:30–12:00 | Quality Estimation Using Dual Encoders with Transfer Learning Dam Heo, WonKee Lee, Baikjin Jung and Jong-Hyeok Lee |
| 10:30–12:00 | ICL’s Submission to the WMT21 Critical Error Detection Shared Task Genze Jiang, Zhenhao Li and Lucia Specia |
| 10:30–12:00 | Papago’s Submission for the WMT21 Quality Estimation Shared Task Seunghyun Lim, Hantae Kim and Hyunjoong Kim |
| 10:30–12:00 | NICT Kyoto Submission for the WMT’21 Quality Estimation Task: Multimetric Multilingual Pretraining for Critical Error Detection Raphael Rubino, Atsushi Fujita and Benjamin Marie |
| 10:30–12:00 | QEMind: Alibaba’s Submission to the WMT21 Quality Estimation Shared Task Jiayi Wang, Ke Wang, Boxing Chen, Yu Zhao, Weihua Luo and Yuqi Zhang |
| 10:30–12:00 | Direct Exploitation of Attention Weights for Translation Quality Estimation Lisa Yankovskaya and Mark Fishel |
| 10:30–12:00 | IST-Unbabel 2021 Submission for the Quality Estimation Shared Task Chrysoula Zerva, Daan van Stigt, Ricardo Rei, Ana C Farinha, Pedro Ramos, José G. C. de Souza, Taisiya Glushkova, miguel vera, Fabio Kepler and André F. T. Martins |
| 10:30–12:00 Unsupervised and Very Low Resource Translation Task | |
| 10:30–12:00 | The IICT-Yverdon System for the WMT 2021 Unsupervised MT and Very Low Resource Supervised MT Task Àlex R. Atrio, Gabriel Luthier, Axel Fahy, Giorgos Vernikos, Andrei Popescu-Belis and Ljiljana Dolamic |
| 10:30–12:00 | Unsupervised Translation of German–Lower Sorbian: Exploring Training and Novel Transfer Methods on a Low-Resource Language Lukas Edman, Ahmet Üstün, Antonio Toral and Gertjan van Noord |
| 10:30–12:00 | The LMU Munich Systems for the WMT21 Unsupervised and Very Low-Resource Translation Task Jindřich Libovický and Alexander Fraser |
| 10:30–12:00 | Language Model Pretraining and Transfer Learning for Very Low Resource Languages Jyotsana Khatri, Rudra Murthy and Pushpak Bhattacharyya |
| 10:30–12:00 | NRC-CNRC Systems for Upper Sorbian-German and Lower Sorbian-German Machine Translation 2021 Rebecca Knowles and Samuel Larkin |
| 10:30–12:00 | NoahNMT at WMT 2021: Dual Transfer for Very Low Resource Supervised Machine Translation Meng Zhang, Minghao Wu, Pengfei Li, Liangyou Li and Qun Liu |
| 10:30–12:00 Metrics Task | |
| 10:30–12:00 | cushLEPOR: customising hLEPOR metric using Optuna for higher agreement with human judgments or pre-trained language model LaBSE Lifeng Han, Irina Sorokina, Gleb Erofeev and Serge Gladkoff |
| 10:30–12:00 | MTEQA at WMT21 Metrics Shared Task Mateusz Krubiński, Erfan Ghadery, Marie-Francine Moens and Pavel Pecina |
| 10:30–12:00 | Are References Really Needed? Unbabel-IST 2021 Submission for the Metrics Shared Task Ricardo Rei, Ana C Farinha, Chrysoula Zerva, Daan van Stigt, Craig Stewart, Pedro Ramos, Taisiya Glushkova, André F. T. Martins and Alon Lavie |
| 10:30–12:00 | Regressive Ensemble for Machine Translation Quality Evaluation Michal Stefanik, Vít Novotný and Petr Sojka |
| 10:30–12:00 | Multilingual Machine Translation Evaluation Metrics Fine-tuned on Pseudo-Negative Examples for WMT 2021 Metrics Task Kosuke Takahashi, Yoichi Ishibashi, Katsuhito Sudoh and Satoshi Nakamura |
| 10:30–12:00 | RoBLEURT Submission for WMT2021 Metrics Task Yu Wan, Dayiheng Liu, Baosong Yang, Tianchi Bi, Haibo Zhang, Boxing Chen, Weihua Luo, Derek F. Wong and Lidia S. Chao |
| 10:30–12:00 Test Suites | |
| 10:30–12:00 | Linguistic Evaluation for the 2021 State-of-the-art Machine Translation Systems for German to English and English to German Vivien Macketanz, Eleftherios Avramidis, Shushen Manakhimova and Sebastian Möller |
| 12:00–13:00 | Lunch Break |
| 13:00–14:15 Session 8: Research Papers on Training and Modelling (Session Chair: Mark Fishel) | |
| 13:00–14:15 | Pruning Neural Machine Translation for Speed Using Group Lasso Maximiliana Behnke and Kenneth Heafield |
| 13:00–14:15 | Phrase-level Active Learning for Neural Machine Translation Junjie Hu and Graham Neubig |
| 13:00–14:15 | Learning Feature Weights using Reward Modeling for Denoising Parallel Corpora Gaurav Kumar, Philipp Koehn and Sanjeev Khudanpur |
| 13:00–14:15 | Monotonic Simultaneous Translation with Chunk-wise Reordering and Refinement HyoJung Han, Seokchan Ahn, Yoonjung Choi, Insoo Chung, Sangha Kim and Kyunghyun Cho |
| 13:00–14:15 | Simultaneous Neural Machine Translation with Constituent Label Prediction Yasumasa Kano, Katsuhito Sudoh and Satoshi Nakamura |
| 13:00–14:15 | Contrastive Learning for Context-aware Neural Machine Translation Using Coreference Information Yongkeun Hwang, Hyeongu Yun and Kyomin Jung |
| 14:15–14:45 | Mini Break |
| 14:45–15:45 Session 9: Machine Translation Papers from the Findings of the EMNLP (Session Chair: Matt Post) | |
| 14:45–15:00 | The Low-Resource Double Bind: An Empirical Study of Pruning for Low-Resource Machine Translation, Orevaoghene Ahia, Julia Kreutzer and Sara Hooker |
| 15:00–15:15 | Subword Mapping and Anchoring across Languages, Giorgos Vernikos and Andrei Popescu-Belis |
| 15:15–15:30 | Uncertainty-Aware Machine Translation Evaluation, Taisiya Glushkova, Chrysoula Zerva, Ricardo Rei and André F. T. Martins |
| 15:30–15:45 | Sometimes We Want Ungrammatical Translations, Prasanna Parasarathi |