Thursday, September 7, 2016 | |
| 8:45–9:00 | Opening Remarks |
| 9:00–10:30 | Session 1: Shared Tasks Overview Presentations I |
| 9:00–9:40 | Shared Task: News Translation |
| Findings of the 2017 Conference on Machine Translation (WMT17) Ondřej Bojar, Rajen Chatterjee, Christian Federmann, Yvette Graham, Barry Haddow, Shujian Huang, Matthias Huck, Philipp Koehn, Qun Liu, Varvara Logacheva, Christof Monz, Matteo Negri, Matt Post, Raphael Rubino, Lucia Specia and Marco Turchi | |
| 9:40–10:10 | Shared Task: Multimodal Translation |
| Findings of the Second Shared Task on Multimodal Machine Translation and Multilingual Image Description Desmond Elliott, Stella Frank, Loïc Barrault, Fethi Bougares and Lucia Specia | |
| 10:10–10:30 | Biomedical Translation |
| Findings of the WMT 2017 Biomedical Translation Shared Task Antonio Jimeno Yepes, Aurelie Neveol, Mariana Neves, Karin Verspoor, Ondrej Bojar, Arthur Boyer, Cristian Grozea, Barry Haddow, Madeleine Kittner, Yvonne Lichtblau, Pavel Pecina, Roland Roller, Rudolf Rosa, Amy Siu, Philippe Thomas and Saskia Trescher | |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00–12:30 | Session 2: Shared Tasks Poster Session I |
| 11:00–12:30 | Shared Task: News Translation |
| CUNI submission in WMT17: Chimera goes neural Roman Sudarikov, David Mareček, Tom Kocmi, Dusan Varis and Ondřej Bojar | |
| LIMSI@WMT’17 Franck Burlot, Pooyan Safari, Matthieu Labeau, Alexandre Allauzen and François Yvon | |
| SYSTRAN Purely Neural MT Engines for WMT2017 Yongchao Deng, Jungi Kim, Guillaume Klein, Catherine KOBUS, Natalia Segal, Christophe Servan, Bo Wang, Dakun Zhang, Josep Crego and Jean Senellart | |
| FBK's Participation to the English-to-German News Translation Task of WMT 2017 Mattia Antonino Di Gangi, Nicola Bertoldi and Marcello Federico | |
| The JHU Machine Translation Systems for WMT 2017 Shuoyang Ding, Huda Khayrallah, Philipp Koehn, Matt Post, Gaurav Kumar and Kevin Duh | |
| The TALP-UPC Neural Machine Translation System for German/Finnish-English Using the Inverse Direction Model in Rescoring Carlos Escolano, Marta R. Costa-jussà and José A. R. Fonollosa | |
| LIUM Machine Translation Systems for WMT17 News Translation Task Mercedes García-Martínez, Ozan Caglayan, Walid Aransa, Adrien Bardet, Fethi Bougares and Loïc Barrault | |
| Extending hybrid word-character neural machine translation with multi-task learning of morphological analysis Stig-Arne Grönroos, Sami Virpioja and Mikko Kurimo | |
| The AFRL-MITLL WMT17 Systems: Old, New, Borrowed, BLEU Jeremy Gwinnup, Timothy Anderson, Grant Erdmann, Katherine Young, Michaeel Kazi, Elizabeth Salesky, Brian Thompson and Jonathan Taylor | |
| University of Rochester WMT 2017 NMT System Submission Chester Holtz, Chuyang Ke and Daniel Gildea | |
| LMU Munich’s Neural Machine Translation Systems for News Articles and Health Information Texts Matthias Huck, Fabienne Braune and Alexander Fraser | |
| Rule-based Machine translation from English to Finnish Arvi Hurskainen and Jörg Tiedemann | |
| NRC Machine Translation System for WMT 2017 Chi-kiu Lo, Boxing Chen, Colin Cherry, George Foster, Samuel Larkin, Darlene Stewart and Roland Kuhn | |
| The Helsinki Neural Machine Translation System Robert Östling, Yves Scherrer, Jörg Tiedemann, Gongbo Tang and Tommi Nieminen | |
| The QT21 Combined Machine Translation System for English to Latvian Jan-Thorsten Peter, Hermann Ney, Ondřej Bojar, Ngoc-Quan Pham, Jan Niehues, Alex Waibel, Franck Burlot, François Yvon, Mārcis Pinnis, Valters Sics, Joost Bastings, Miguel Rios, Wilker Aziz, Philip Williams, Frédéric Blain and Lucia Specia | |
| The RWTH Aachen University English-German and German-English Machine Translation System for WMT 2017 Jan-Thorsten Peter, Andreas Guta, Tamer Alkhouli, Parnia Bahar, Jan Rosendahl, Nick Rossenbach, Miguel Graça and Hermann Ney | |
| The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Systems for the News Translation Task in WMT 2017 Ngoc-Quan Pham, Jan Niehues, Thanh-Le Ha, Eunah Cho, Matthias Sperber and Alexander Waibel | |
| Tilde’s Machine Translation Systems for WMT 2017 Mārcis Pinnis, Rihards Krišlauks, Toms Miks, Daiga Deksne and Valters Šics | |
| C-3MA: Tartu-Riga-Zurich Translation Systems for WMT17 Matīss Rikters, Chantal Amrhein, Maksym Del and Mark Fishel | |
| The University of Edinburgh’s Neural MT Systems for WMT17 Rico Sennrich, Alexandra Birch, Anna Currey, Ulrich Germann, Barry Haddow, Kenneth Heafield, Antonio Valerio Miceli Barone and Philip Williams | |
| XMU Neural Machine Translation Systems for WMT 17 Zhixing Tan, Boli Wang, Jinming Hu, Yidong Chen and xiaodong shi | |
| The JAIST Machine Translation Systems for WMT 17 Long Trieu, Trung-Tin Pham and Le-Minh Nguyen | |
| Sogou Neural Machine Translation Systems for WMT17 Yuguang Wang, Shanbo Cheng, Liyang Jiang, Jiajun Yang, Wei Chen, Muze Li, Lin Shi, Yanfeng Wang and Hongtao Yang | |
| PJIIT's systems for WMT 2017 Conference Krzysztof Wolk and Krzysztof Marasek | |
| Hunter MT: A Course for Young Researchers in WMT17 Jia Xu, Yi Zong Kuang, Shondell Baijoo, Jacob Hyun Lee, Uman Shahzad, Mir Ahmed, Meredith Lancaster and Chris Carlan | |
| CASICT-DCU Neural Machine Translation Systems for WMT17 Jinchao Zhang, Peerachet Porkaew, Jiawei Hu, Qiuye Zhao and Qun Liu | |
| 11:00–12:30 | Shared Task: Multimodal Translation |
| LIUM-CVC Submissions for WMT17 Multimodal Translation Task Ozan Caglayan, Walid Aransa, Adrien Bardet, Mercedes García-Martínez, Fethi Bougares, Loïc Barrault, Marc Masana, Luis Herranz and Joost van de Weijer | |
| DCU System Report on the WMT 2017 Multi-modal Machine Translation Task Iacer Calixto, Koel Dutta Chowdhury and Qun Liu | |
| The AFRL-OSU WMT17 Multimodal Translation System: An Image Processing Approach John Duselis, Michael Hutt, Jeremy Gwinnup, James Davis and Joshua Sandvick | |
| CUNI System for the WMT17 Multimodal Translation Task Jindřich Helcl and Jindřich Libovický | |
| Generating Image Descriptions using Multilingual Data Alan Jaffe | |
| OSU Multimodal Machine Translation System Report Mingbo Ma, Dapeng Li, Kai Zhao and Liang Huang | |
| Sheffield MultiMT: Using Object Posterior Predictions for Multimodal Machine Translation Pranava Swaroop Madhyastha, Josiah Wang and Lucia Specia | |
| NICT-NAIST System for WMT17 Multimodal Translation Task Jingyi Zhang, Masao Utiyama, Eiichro Sumita, Graham Neubig and Satoshi Nakamura | |
| 11:00–12:30 | Shared Task: Biomedical Translation |
| Automatic Threshold Detection for Data Selection in Machine Translation Mirela-Stefania Duma and Wolfgang Menzel | |
| 12:30–14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00–15:30 | Session 3: Invited Talk Holger Schwenk (Facebook) |
| 15:30–16:00 | Coffee Break |
| 16:00–17:30 | Session 4: Research Papers on Lexicon and Morphology |
| 16:00–16:15 | Sense-Aware Statistical Machine Translation using Adaptive Context-Dependent Clustering Xiao Pu, Nikolaos Pappas and Andrei Popescu-Belis |
| 16:15–16:30 | Improving Word Sense Disambiguation in Neural Machine Translation with Sense Embeddings Annette Rios Gonzales, Laura Mascarell and Rico Sennrich |
| 16:30–16:45 | Word Representations in Factored Neural Machine Translation Franck Burlot, Mercedes García-Martínez, Loïc Barrault, Fethi Bougares and François Yvon |
| 16:45–17:00 | Modeling Target-Side Inflection in Neural Machine Translation Aleš Tamchyna, Marion Weller-Di Marco and Alexander Fraser |
| 17:00–17:15 | Evaluating the morphological competence of Machine Translation Systems Franck Burlot and François Yvon |
| 17:15–17:30 | Target-side Word Segmentation Strategies for Neural Machine Translation Matthias Huck, Simon Riess and Alexander Fraser |
Friday, September 8, 2017 | |
| 9:00–10:30 | Session 5: Shared Tasks Overview Presentations II |
| 9:00–9:20 | Shared Task: Quality Estimation |
| 9:20–9:40 | Shared Task: Metrics |
| Results of the WMT17 Metrics Shared Task Ondřej Bojar, Yvette Graham and Amir Kamran | |
| 9:40–10:00 | Shared Task: Automatic Post-Editing |
| 10:00–10:15 | Shared Task: Bandit Learning |
| A Shared Task on Bandit Learning for Machine Translation Artem Sokolov, Julia Kreutzer, Kellen Sunderland, Pavel Danchenko, Witold Szymaniak, Hagen Fürstenau and Stefan Riezler | |
| 10:15–10:30 | Shared Task: Neural Training |
| Results of the WMT17 Neural MT Training Task Ondřej Bojar, Jindřich Helcl, Tom Kocmi, Jindřich Libovický and Tomáš Musil | |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00–12:30 | Session 6: Shared Tasks Poster Session II |
| 11:00–12:30 | Shared Task: Quality Estimation |
| Sentence-level quality estimation by predicting HTER as a multi-component metric Eleftherios Avramidis | |
| Predicting Translation Performance with Referential Translation Machines Ergun Biçici | |
| Bilexical Embeddings for Quality Estimation Frédéric Blain, Carolina Scarton and Lucia Specia | |
| Improving Machine Translation Quality Estimation with Neural Network Features Zhiming Chen, Yiming Tan, Chenlin Zhang, Qingyu Xiang, Lilin Zhang, Maoxi Li and Mingwen WANG | |
| UHH Submission to the WMT17 Quality Estimation Shared Task Melania Duma and Wolfgang Menzel | |
| Predictor-Estimator using Multilevel Task Learning with Stack Propagation for Neural Quality Estimation Hyun Kim, Jong-Hyeok Lee and Seung-Hoon Na | |
| Unbabel’s Participation in the WMT17 Translation Quality Estimation Shared Task André F. T. Martins, Fabio Kepler and Jose Monteiro | |
| Feature-Enriched Character-Level Convolutions for Text Regression Gustavo Paetzold and Lucia Specia | |
| 11:00–12:30 | Shared Task: Metrics |
| UHH Submission to the WMT17 Metrics Shared Task Melania Duma and Wolfgang Menzel | |
| MEANT 2.0: Accurate semantic MT evaluation for any output language Chi-kiu Lo | |
| Blend: a Novel Combined MT Metric Based on Direct Assessment - CASICT-DCU submission to WMT17 Metrics Task Qingsong Ma, Yvette Graham, Shugen Wang and Qun Liu | |
| CUNI Experiments for WMT17 Metrics Task David Mareček, Ondřej Bojar, Ondřej Hübsch, Rudolf Rosa and Dusan Varis | |
| chrF++: words helping character n-grams Maja Popović | |
| bleu2vec: the Painfully Familiar Metric on Continuous Vector Space Steroids Andre Tättar and Mark Fishel | |
| 11:00–12:30 | Shared Task: Automatic Post-Editing |
| LIG-CRIStAL Submission for the WMT 2017 Automatic Post-Editing Task Alexandre Berard, Laurent Besacier and Olivier Pietquin | |
| Multi-source Neural Automatic Post-Editing: FBK's participation in the WMT 2017 APE shared task Rajen Chatterjee, M. Amin Farajian, Matteo Negri, Marco Turchi, Ankit Srivastava and Santanu Pal | |
| The AMU-UEdin Submission to the WMT 2017 Shared Task on Automatic Post-Editing Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt and Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt | |
| Ensembling Factored Neural Machine Translation Models for Automatic Post-Editing and Quality Estimation Chris Hokamp | |
| Neural Post-Editing Based on Quality Estimation Yiming Tan, Zhiming Chen, Liu Huang, Lilin Zhang, Maoxi Li and Mingwen Wang | |
| CUNI System for WMT17 Automatic Post-Editing Task Dusan Varis and Ondřej Bojar | |
| 11:00–12:30 | Shared Task: Bandit Learning |
| The UMD Neural Machine Translation Systems at WMT17 Bandit Learning Task Amr Sharaf, Shi Feng, Khanh Nguyen, Kiante Brantley and Hal Daumé III | |
| LIMSI Submission for WMT’17 Shared Task on Bandit Learning Guillaume Wisniewski | |
| 11:00–12:30 | Shared Task: Neural Training |
| Variable Mini-Batch Sizing and Pre-Trained Embeddings Mostafa Abdou, Vladan Gloncak and Ondřej Bojar | |
| The AFRL WMT17 Neural Machine Translation Training Task Submission Jeremy Gwinnup, Grant Erdmann and Katherine Young | |
| 12:30–14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00–15:15 | Session 7: Research Papers on Syntax and Deep Models |
| 14:00–14:15 | Predicting Target Language CCG Supertags Improves Neural Machine Translation Maria Nadejde, Siva Reddy, Rico Sennrich, Tomasz Dwojak, Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt, Philipp Koehn and Alexandra Birch |
| 14:15–14:30 | Exploiting Linguistic Resources for Neural Machine Translation Using Multi-task Learning Jan Niehues and Eunah Cho |
| 14:30–14:45 | Tree as a Pivot: Syntactic Matching Methods in Pivot Translation Akiva Miura, Graham Neubig, Katsuhito Sudoh and Satoshi Nakamura |
| 14:45–15:00 | Deep architectures for Neural Machine Translation Antonio Valerio Miceli Barone, Jindřich Helcl, Rico Sennrich, Barry Haddow and Alexandra Birch |
| 15:00–15:15 | Biasing Attention-Based Recurrent Neural Networks Using External Alignment Information Tamer Alkhouli and Hermann Ney |
| 15:15–16:00 | Coffee Break |
| 16:00–17:15 | Session 8: Research Papers on Domain Adaptation and External Data |
| 16:00–16:15 | Effective Domain Mixing for Neural Machine Translation Denny Britz, Quoc Le and Reid Pryzant |
| 16:15–16:30 | Multi-Domain Neural Machine Translation through Unsupervised Adaptation M. Amin Farajian, Marco Turchi, Matteo Negri and Marcello Federico |
| 16:30–16:45 | Adapting Neural Machine Translation with Parallel Synthetic Data Mara Chinea-Rios, Álvaro Peris and Francisco Casacuberta |
| 16:45–17:00 | Copied Monolingual Data Improves Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation Anna Currey, Antonio Valerio Miceli Barone and Kenneth Heafield |
| 17:00–17:15 | Guiding Neural Machine Translation Decoding with External Knowledge Rajen Chatterjee, Matteo Negri, Marco Turchi, Marcello Federico, Lucia Specia and Frédéric Blain |