Wednesday, October 31, 2018
8:45–9:00	Opening Remarks
	9:00–10:30 Session 1: Shared Tasks Overview Presentations I
9:00–9:30	Findings of the 2018 Conference on Machine Translation (WMT18) Ondřej Bojar, Christian Federmann, Mark Fishel, Yvette Graham, Barry Haddow, Matthias Huck, Philipp Koehn and Christof Monz
9:30–9:50	Findings of the Third Shared Task on Multimodal Machine Translation Loïc Barrault, Fethi Bougares, Lucia Specia, Chiraag Lala, Desmond Elliott and Stella Frank
9:50–10:10	Findings of the WMT 2018 Biomedical Translation Shared Task: Evaluation on Medline test sets Mariana Neves, Antonio Jimeno Yepes, Aurelie Neveol, Cristian Grozea, Amy Siu, Madeleine Kittner and Karin Verspoor
	Boaster Session for Research Papers Presented as Posters (Session I)
10:16–10:18	Scaling Neural Machine Translation Myle Ott, Sergey Edunov, David Grangier and Michael Auli
10:18–10:20	Character-level Chinese-English Translation through ASCII Encoding Nikola Nikolov, Yuhuang Hu, Mi Xue Tan and Richard H.R. Hahnloser
10:20–10:22	Neural Machine Translation of Logographic Language Using Sub-character Level Information Longtu Zhang and Mamoru Komachi
10:22–10:24	An Analysis of Attention Mechanisms: The Case of Word Sense Disambiguation in Neural Machine Translation Gongbo Tang, Rico Sennrich and Joakim Nivre
10:24–10:26	Discourse-Related Language Contrasts in English-Croatian Human and Machine Translation Margita Šoštarić, Christian Hardmeier and Sara Stymne
10:26–10:28	Coreference and Coherence in Neural Machine Translation: A Study Using Oracle Experiments Dario Stojanovski and Alexander Fraser
10:28–10:30	A Large-Scale Test Set for the Evaluation of Context-Aware Pronoun Translation in Neural Machine Translation Mathias Müller, Annette Rios, Elena Voita and Rico Sennrich
10:30-11:00	Coffee Break
	11:00–12:30 Session 2: Poster Session I
11:00–12:30	Shared Task: News Translation
	An Empirical Study of Machine Translation for the Shared Task of WMT18 Chao Bei, Hao Zong, Yiming Wang, Baoyong Fan, Shiqi Li and Conghu Yuan
	Robust parfda Statistical Machine Translation Results Ergun Bicici
	The TALP-UPC Machine Translation Systems for WMT18 News Shared Translation Task Noe Casas, Carlos Escolano, Marta R. Costa-jussà and Jose A. R. Fonollosa
	Phrase-based Unsupervised Machine Translation with Compositional Phrase Embeddings Maksym Del, Andre Tättar and Mark Fishel
	Alibaba’s Neural Machine Translation Systems for WMT18 Yongchao Deng, Shanbo Cheng, Jun Lu, Kai Song, Jingang Wang, Shenglan Wu, Liang Yao, Guchun Zhang, Haibo Zhang, Pei Zhang, Changfeng Zhu and Boxing Chen
	The RWTH Aachen University English-German and German-English Unsupervised Neural Machine Translation Systems for WMT 2018 Miguel Graca, Yunsu Kim, Julian Schamper, Jiahui Geng and Hermann Ney
	Cognate-aware morphological segmentation for multilingual neural translation Stig-Arne Grönroos, Sami Virpioja and Mikko Kurimo
	The AFRL WMT18 Systems: Ensembling, Continuation and Combination Jeremy Gwinnup, Tim Anderson, Grant Erdmann and Katherine Young
	The University of Edinburgh's Submissions to the WMT18 News Translation Task Barry Haddow, Nikolay Bogoychev, Denis Emelin, Ulrich Germann, Roman Grundkiewicz, Kenneth Heafield, Antonio Valerio Miceli Barone and Rico Sennrich
	TencentFmRD Neural Machine Translation for WMT18 Bojie Hu, Ambyer Han and Shen Huang
	The MLLP-UPV German-English Machine Translation System for WMT18 Javier Iranzo-Sánchez, Pau Baquero-Arnal, Goncal V. Garces Díaz-Munío, Adrià Martínez-Villaronga, Jorge Civera and Alfons Juan
	Microsoft’s Submission to the WMT2018 News Translation Task: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Data Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt
	CUNI Submissions in WMT18 Tom Kocmi, Roman Sudarikov and Ondřej Bojar
	The JHU Machine Translation Systems for WMT 2018 Philipp Koehn, Kevin Duh and Brian Thompson
	JUCBNMT at WMT2018 News Translation Task: Character Based Neural Machine Translation of Finnish to English Sainik Kumar Mahata, Dipankar Das and Sivaji Bandyopadhyay
	NICT’s Neural and Statistical Machine Translation Systems for the WMT18 News Translation Task Benjamin Marie, Rui Wang, Atsushi Fujita, Masao Utiyama and Eiichiro Sumita
	PROMT Systems for WMT 2018 Shared Translation Task Alexander Molchanov
	NTT’s Neural Machine Translation Systems for WMT 2018 Makoto Morishita, Jun Suzuki and Masaaki Nagata
	The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Systems for the News Translation Task in WMT 2018 Ngoc-Quan Pham, Jan Niehues and Alexander Waibel
	Tilde’s Machine Translation Systems for WMT 2018 Marcis Pinnis, Matiss Rikters and Rihards Krislauks
	CUNI Transformer Neural MT System for WMT18 Martin Popel
	The University of Helsinki submissions to the WMT18 news task Alessandro Raganato, Yves Scherrer, Tommi Nieminen, Arvi Hurskainen and Jörg Tiedemann
	The RWTH Aachen University Supervised Machine Translation Systems for WMT 2018 Julian Schamper, Jan Rosendahl, Parnia Bahar, Yunsu Kim, Arne Nix and Hermann Ney
	The University of Cambridge's Machine Translation Systems for WMT18 Felix Stahlberg, Adrià de Gispert and Bill Byrne
	The LMU Munich Unsupervised Machine Translation Systems Dario Stojanovski, Viktor Hangya, Matthias Huck and Alexander Fraser
	Tencent Neural Machine Translation Systems for WMT18 Mingxuan Wang, Li Gong, Wenhuan Zhu, Jun Xie and Chao Bian
	The NiuTrans Machine Translation System for WMT18 Qiang Wang, Bei Li, Jiqiang Liu, Bojian Jiang, Zheyang Zhang, Yinqiao Li, Ye Lin, Tong Xiao and Jingbo Zhu
	The University of Maryland’s Chinese-English Neural Machine Translation Systems at WMT18 Weijia Xu and Marine Carpuat
11:00–12:30	Extra Test Suites
	EvalD Reference-Less Discourse Evaluation for WMT18 Ondřej Bojar, Jiří Mírovský, Kateřina Rysová and Magdalena Rysová
	The WMT’18 Morpheval test suites for English-Czech, English-German, English-Finnish and Turkish-English Franck Burlot, Yves Scherrer, Vinit Ravishankar, Ondřej Bojar, Stig-Arne Grönroos, Maarit Koponen, Tommi Nieminen and Francois Yvon
	Testsuite on Czech–English Grammatical Contrasts Silvie Cinkova and Ondřej Bojar
	A Pronoun Test Suite Evaluation of the English–German MT Systems at WMT 2018 Liane Guillou, Christian Hardmeier, Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski and Sharid Loáiciga
	Fine-grained evaluation of German-English Machine Translation based on a Test Suite Vivien Macketanz, Eleftherios Avramidis, Aljoscha Burchardt and Hans Uszkoreit
	The Word Sense Disambiguation Test Suite at WMT18 Annette Rios, Mathias Müller and Rico Sennrich
11:00–12:30	Shared Task: Multimodal Translation
	LIUM-CVC Submissions for WMT18 Multimodal Translation Task Ozan Caglayan, Adrien Bardet, Fethi Bougares, Loïc Barrault, Kai Wang, Marc Masana, Luis Herranz and Joost van de Weijer
	The MeMAD Submission to the WMT18 Multimodal Translation Task Stig-Arne Grönroos, Benoit Huet, Mikko Kurimo, Jorma Laaksonen, Bernard Merialdo, Phu Pham, Mats Sjöberg, Umut Sulubacak, Jörg Tiedemann, Raphael Troncy and Raúl Vázquez
	The AFRL-Ohio State WMT18 Multimodal System: Combining Visual with Traditional Jeremy Gwinnup, Joshua Sandvick, Michael Hutt, Grant Erdmann, John Duselis and James Davis
	CUNI System for the WMT18 Multimodal Translation Task Jindřich Helcl, Jindřich Libovický and Dusan Varis
	Sheffield Submissions for WMT18 Multimodal Translation Shared Task Chiraag Lala, Pranava Swaroop Madhyastha, Carolina Scarton and Lucia Specia
	Ensemble Sequence Level Training for Multimodal MT: OSU-Baidu WMT18 Multimodal Machine Translation System Report Renjie Zheng, Yilin Yang, Mingbo Ma and Liang Huang
	UMONS Submission for WMT18 Multimodal Translation Task Jean-Benoit Delbrouck and Stephane Dupont
11:00–12:30	Shared Task: Biomedical Translation
	Translation of Biomedical Documents with Focus on Spanish-English Mirela-Stefania Duma and Wolfgang Menzel
	Ensemble of Translators with Automatic Selection of the Best Translation – the submission of FOKUS to the WMT 18 biomedical translation task – Cristian Grozea
	LMU Munich's Neural Machine Translation Systems at WMT 2018 Matthias Huck, Dario Stojanovski, Viktor Hangya and Alexander Fraser
	Hunter NMT System for WMT18 Biomedical Translation Task: Transfer Learning in Neural Machine Translation Abdul Khan, Subhadarshi Panda, Jia Xu and Lampros Flokas
	UFRGS Participation on the WMT Biomedical Translation Shared Task Felipe Soares and Karin Becker
	Neural Machine Translation with the Transformer and Multi-Source Romance Languages for the Biomedical WMT 2018 task Brian Tubay and Marta R. Costa-jussà
12:30–14:00	Lunch
	14:00–15:20 Session 3: Research Papers on Embedding and Context
14:00–14:20	Beyond Weight Tying: Learning Joint Input-Output Embeddings for Neural Machine Translation Nikolaos Pappas, Lesly Miculicich and James Henderson
14:20–14:40	A neural interlingua for multilingual machine translation Yichao Lu, Phillip Keung, Faisal Ladhak, Vikas Bhardwaj, Shaonan Zhang and Jason Sun
14:40–15:00	Improving Neural Language Models with Weight Norm Initialization and Regularization Christian Herold, Yingbo Gao and Hermann Ney
15:00–15:20	Contextual Neural Model for Translating Bilingual Multi-Speaker Conversations Sameen Maruf, Andre F. T. Martins and Gholamreza Haffari
15:30–16:00	Coffee Break
	16:00–17:20 Session 4: Research Papers on Analysis and Data
16:00–16:20	Attaining the Unattainable? Reassessing Claims of Human Parity in Neural Machine Translation Antonio Toral, Sheila Castilho, Ke Hu and Andy Way
16:20–16:40	Freezing Subnetworks to Analyze Domain Adaptation in Neural Machine Translation Brian Thompson, Huda Khayrallah, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Arya D. McCarthy, Kevin Duh, Rebecca Marvin, Paul McNamee, Jeremy Gwinnup, Tim Anderson and Philipp Koehn
16:40–17:00	Denoising Neural Machine Translation Training with Trusted Data and Online Data Selection Wei Wang, Taro Watanabe, Macduff Hughes, Tetsuji Nakagawa and Ciprian Chelba
17:00–17:20	Using Monolingual Data in Neural Machine Translation: a Systematic Study Franck Burlot and Francois Yvon
Thursday, November 1, 2018
	9:00–10:30 Session 5: Shared Tasks Overview Presentations I
9:00–9:20	Results of the WMT18 Metrics Shared Task: Both characters and embeddings achieve good performance Qingsong Ma, Ondřej Bojar and Yvette Graham
9:20–9:40	Findings of the WMT 2018 Shared Task on Quality Estimation Lucia Specia, Frederic Blain, Varvara Logacheva, Ramón Astudillo and Andre F. T. Martins
9:40–9:55	Findings of the WMT 2018 Shared Task on Automatic Post-Editing Rajen Chatterjee, Matteo Negri, Raphael Rubino and Marco Turchi
9:55–10:10	Findings of the WMT 2018 Shared Task on Parallel Corpus Filtering Philipp Koehn, Huda Khayrallah, Kenneth Heafield and Mikel L. Forcada
	Boaster Session for Research Papers Presented as Posters (Session II)
10:14–10:16	Neural Machine Translation into Language Varieties Surafel Melaku Lakew, Aliia Erofeeva and Marcello Federico
10:16–10:18	Effective Parallel Corpus Mining using Bilingual Sentence Embeddings Mandy Guo, Qinlan Shen, Yinfei Yang, Heming Ge, Daniel Cer, Gustavo Hernandez Abrego, Keith Stevens, Noah Constant, Yun-hsuan Sung, Brian Strope and Ray Kurzweil
10:18–10:20	On The Alignment Problem In Multi-Head Attention-Based Neural Machine Translation Tamer Alkhouli, Gabriel Bretschner and Hermann Ney
10:20–10:22	A Call for Clarity in Reporting BLEU Scores Matt Post
10:22–10:24	Exploring gap filling as a cheaper alternative to reading comprehension questionnaires when evaluating machine translation for gisting Mikel L. Forcada, Carolina Scarton, Lucia Specia, Barry Haddow and Alexandra Birch
10:24–10:26	Simple Fusion: Return of the Language Model Felix Stahlberg, James Cross and Veselin Stoyanov
10:26–10:28	Correcting Length Bias in Neural Machine Translation Kenton Murray and David Chiang
10:28–10:30	Extracting In-domain Training Corpora for Neural Machine Translation Using Data Selection Methods Catarina Cruz Silva, Chao-Hong Liu, Alberto Poncelas and Andy Way
10:30-11:00	Coffee Break
	11:00–12:30 Session 6: Poster Session II
11:00–12:30	Shared Task: Metrics
	Meteor++: Incorporating Copy Knowledge into Machine Translation Evaluation Yinuo Guo, Chong Ruan and Junfeng Hu
	ITER: Improving Translation Edit Rate through Optimizable Edit Costs Joybrata Panja and Sudip Kumar Naskar
	RUSE: Regressor Using Sentence Embeddings for Automatic Machine Translation Evaluation Hiroki Shimanaka, Tomoyuki Kajiwara and Mamoru Komachi
11:00–12:30	Shared Task: Quality Estimation
	Keep It or Not: Word Level Quality Estimation for Post-Editing Prasenjit Basu, Santanu Pal and Sudip Kumar Naskar
	RTM results for Predicting Translation Performance Ergun Bicici
	Neural Machine Translation for English-Tamil Himanshu Choudhary, Aditya Kumar Pathak, Rajiv Ratan Saha and Ponnurangam Kumaraguru
	The Benefit of Pseudo-Reference Translations in Quality Estimation of MT Output Melania Duma and Wolfgang Menzel
	Supervised and Unsupervised Minimalist Quality Estimators: Vicomtech’s Participation in the WMT 2018 Quality Estimation Task Thierry Etchegoyhen, Eva Martínez Garcia and Andoni Azpeitia
	Contextual Encoding for Translation Quality Estimation Junjie Hu, Wei-Cheng Chang, Yuexin Wu and Graham Neubig
	Sheffield Submissions for the WMT18 Quality Estimation Shared Task Julia Ive, Carolina Scarton, Frederic Blain and Lucia Specia
	UAlacant machine translation quality estimation at WMT 2018: a simple approach using phrase tables and feed-forward neural networks Felipe Sánchez-Martínez, Miquel Esplà-Gomis and Mikel L. Forcada
	Alibaba Submission for WMT18 Quality Estimation Task Jiayi Wang, Kai Fan, Bo Li, Fengming Zhou, Boxing Chen, Yangbin Shi and Luo Si
	Quality Estimation with Force-Decoded Attention and Cross-lingual Embeddings Elizaveta Yankovskaya, Andre Tättar and Mark Fishel
11:00–12:30	Shared Task: Automatic Post-Editing
	MS-UEdin Submission to the WMT2018 APE Shared Task: Dual-Source Transformer for Automatic Post-Editing Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt and Roman Grundkiewicz
	A Transformer-Based Multi-Source Automatic Post-Editing System Santanu Pal, Nico Herbig, Antonio Krüger and Josef van Genabith
	DFKI-MLT System Description for the WMT18 Automatic Post-editing Task Daria Pylypenko and Raphael Rubino
	Multi-encoder Transformer Network for Automatic Post-Editing Jaehun Shin and Jong-Hyeok Lee
	Multi-source transformer with combined losses for automatic post editing Amirhossein Tebbifakhr, Ruchit Agrawal, Rajen Chatterjee, Matteo Negri and Marco Turchi
11:00–12:30	Shared Task: Parallel Corpus Filtering
	The Speechmatics Parallel Corpus Filtering System for WMT18 Tom Ash, Remi Francis and Will Williams
	STACC, OOV Density and N-gram Saturation: Vicomtech’s Participation in the WMT 2018 Shared Task on Parallel Corpus Filtering Andoni Azpeitia, Thierry Etchegoyhen and Eva Martínez garcia
	A hybrid pipeline of rules and machine learning to filter web-crawled parallel corpora Eduard Barbu and Verginica Barbu Mititelu
	Coverage and Cynicism: The AFRL Submission to the WMT 2018 Parallel Corpus Filtering Task Grant Erdmann and Jeremy Gwinnup
	MAJE Submission to the WMT2018 Shared Task on Parallel Corpus Filtering Marina Fomicheva and Jesús González-Rubio
	An Unsupervised System for Parallel Corpus Filtering Viktor Hangya and Alexander Fraser
	Dual Conditional Cross-Entropy Filtering of Noisy Parallel Corpora Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt
	The JHU Parallel Corpus Filtering Systems for WMT 2018 Huda Khayrallah, Hainan Xu and Philipp Koehn
	Measuring sentence parallelism using Mahalanobis distances: The NRC unsupervised submissions to the WMT18 Parallel Corpus Filtering shared task Patrick Littell, Samuel Larkin, Darlene Stewart, Michel Simard, Cyril Goutte and Chi-kiu Lo
	Accurate semantic textual similarity for cleaning noisy parallel corpora using semantic machine translation evaluation metric: The NRC supervised submissions to the Parallel Corpus Filtering task Chi-kiu Lo, Michel Simard, Darlene Stewart, Samuel Larkin, Cyril Goutte and Patrick Littell
	Alibaba Submission to the WMT18 Parallel Corpus Filtering Task Jun Lu, Xiaoyu Lv, Yangbin Shi and Boxing Chen
	UTFPR at WMT 2018: Minimalistic Supervised Corpora Filtering for Machine Translation Gustavo Paetzold
	The ILSP/ARC submission to the WMT 2018 Parallel Corpus Filtering Shared Task Vassilis Papavassiliou, Sokratis Sofianopoulos, Prokopis Prokopidis and Stelios Piperidis
	SYSTRAN Participation to the WMT2018 Shared Task on Parallel Corpus Filtering Minh Quang Pham, Josep Crego and Jean Senellart
	Tilde’s Parallel Corpus Filtering Methods for WMT 2018 Marcis Pinnis
	The RWTH Aachen University Filtering System for the WMT 2018 Parallel Corpus Filtering Task Nick Rossenbach, Jan Rosendahl, Yunsu Kim, Miguel Graca, Aman Gokrani and Hermann Ney
	Prompsit’s submission to WMT 2018 Parallel Corpus Filtering shared task Víctor M. Sánchez-Cartagena, Marta Bañón, Sergio Ortiz Rojas and Gema Ramírez
	NICT’s Corpus Filtering Systems for the WMT18 Parallel Corpus Filtering Task Rui Wang, Benjamin Marie, Masao Utiyama and Eiichiro Sumita
12:30–14:00	Lunch
	14:00–15:30 Session 3: Invited Talk
14:00–15:30	Alexandra Birch (University of Edinburgh): Translation and the Media
15:30–16:00	Coffee Break
	16:00–17:20 Session 8: Research Papers on Multilingual Translation
16:00–16:20	Massively Parallel Cross-Lingual Learning in Low-Resource Target Language Translation Zhong Zhou, Matthias Sperber and Alexander Waibel
16:20–16:40	Trivial Transfer Learning for Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation Tom Kocmi and Ondřej Bojar
16:40–17:00	Input Combination Strategies for Multi-Source Transformer Decoder Jindřich Libovický, Jindřich Helcl and David Mareček
17:00–17:20	Parameter Sharing Methods for Multilingual Self-Attentional Translation Models Devendra Sachan and Graham Neubig