Schedule

Thursday, August 1, 2019

8:45–9:00Opening Remarks
 9:00–10:30 Session 1: Shared Tasks Overview Presentations I (chair: Barry Haddow)
9:00–9:35Findings of the 2019 Conference on Machine Translation (WMT19)
Loïc Barrault, Ondřej Bojar, Marta R. Costa-jussà, Christian Federmann, Mark Fishel, Yvette Graham, Barry Haddow, Matthias Huck, Philipp Koehn, Shervin Malmasi, Christof Monz, Mathias Müller, Santanu Pal, Matt Post and Marcos Zampieri
9:35–9:50Test Suites (slides)
9:50–10:10Results of the WMT19 Metrics Shared Task: Segment-Level and Strong MT Systems Pose Big Challenges (slides)
Qingsong Ma, Johnny Wei, Ondřej Bojar and Yvette Graham
10:10–10:30Findings of the First Shared Task on Machine Translation Robustness
Xian Li, Paul Michel, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Yonatan Belinkov, Nadir Durrani, Orhan Firat, Philipp Koehn, Graham Neubig, Juan Pino and Hassan Sajjad
10:30-11:00Coffee Break
 11:00–12:30 Session 2: Shared Task Poster Session I
11:00–12:30Shared Task: News Translation
 The University of Edinburgh’s Submissions to the WMT19 News Translation Task
Rachel Bawden, Nikolay Bogoychev, Ulrich Germann, Roman Grundkiewicz, Faheem Kirefu, Antonio Valerio Miceli Barone and Alexandra Birch
 GTCOM Neural Machine Translation Systems for WMT19
Chao Bei, Hao Zong, Conghu Yuan, Qingming Liu and Baoyong Fan
 Machine Translation with parfda, Moses, kenlm, nplm, and PRO
Ergun Biçici
 LIUM’s Contributions to the WMT2019 News Translation Task: Data and Systems for German-French Language Pairs
Fethi Bougares, Jane Wottawa, Anne Baillot, Loïc Barrault and Adrien Bardet
 The University of Maryland’s Kazakh-English Neural Machine Translation System at WMT19
Eleftheria Briakou and Marine Carpuat
 DBMS-KU Interpolation for WMT19 News Translation Task
Sari Dewi Budiwati, Al Hafiz Akbar Maulana Siagian, Tirana Noor Fatyanosa and Masayoshi Aritsugi
 Lingua Custodia at WMT’19: Attempts to Control Terminology
Franck Burlot
 The TALP-UPC Machine Translation Systems for WMT19 News Translation Task: Pivoting Techniques for Low Resource MT
Noe Casas, José A. R. Fonollosa, Carlos Escolano, Christine Basta and Marta R. Costa-jussà
 Kyoto University Participation to the WMT 2019 News Shared Task
Fabien Cromieres and Sadao Kurohashi
 NICT’s Supervised Neural Machine Translation Systems for the WMT19 News Translation Task
Raj Dabre, Kehai Chen, Benjamin Marie, Rui Wang, Atsushi Fujita, Masao Utiyama and Eiichiro Sumita
 The University of Sydney’s Machine Translation System for WMT19
Liang Ding and Dacheng Tao
 UdS-DFKI Participation at WMT 2019: Low-Resource (en-gu) and Coreference-Aware (en-de) Systems
Cristina España-Bonet and Dana Ruiter
 The IIIT-H Gujarati-English Machine Translation System for WMT19
Vikrant Goyal and Dipti Misra Sharma
 Kingsoft’s Neural Machine Translation System for WMT19
Xinze Guo, Chang Liu, Xiaolong Li, Yiran Wang, Guoliang Li, Feng Wang, Zhitao Xu, Liuyi Yang, Li Ma and Changliang Li
 The AFRL WMT19 Systems: Old Favorites and New Tricks
Jeremy Gwinnup, Grant Erdmann and Tim Anderson
 Evaluating the Supervised and Zero-shot Performance of Multi-lingual Translation Models
Chris Hokamp, John Glover and Demian Gholipour Ghalandari
 The MLLP-UPV Supervised Machine Translation Systems for WMT19 News Translation Task
Javier Iranzo-Sánchez, Gonçal Garcés Díaz-Munío, Jorge Civera and Alfons Juan
 Microsoft Translator at WMT 2019: Towards Large-Scale Document-Level Neural Machine Translation
Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt
 CUNI Submission for Low-Resource Languages in WMT News 2019
Tom Kocmi and Ondřej Bojar
 CUNI Systems for the Unsupervised News Translation Task in WMT 2019
Ivana Kvapilíková, Dominik Macháček and Ondřej Bojar
 A Comparison on Fine-grained Pre-trained Embeddings for the WMT19Chinese-English News Translation Task
Zhenhao Li and Lucia Specia
 The NiuTrans Machine Translation Systems for WMT19
Bei Li, Yinqiao Li, Chen Xu, Ye Lin, Jiqiang Liu, Hui Liu, Ziyang Wang, Yuhao Zhang, Nuo Xu, Zeyang Wang, Kai Feng, Hexuan Chen, Tengbo Liu, Yanyang Li, Qiang Wang, Tong Xiao and Jingbo Zhu
 Multi-Source Transformer for Kazakh-Russian-English Neural Machine Translation
Patrick Littell, Chi-kiu Lo, Samuel Larkin and Darlene Stewart
 Incorporating Word and Subword Units in Unsupervised Machine Translation Using Language Model Rescoring
Zihan Liu, Yan Xu, Genta Indra Winata and Pascale Fung
 JUMT at WMT2019 News Translation Task: A Hybrid Approach to Machine Translation for Lithuanian to English
Sainik Kumar Mahata, Avishek Garain, Adityar Rayala, Dipankar Das and Sivaji Bandyopadhyay
 Johns Hopkins University Submission for WMT News Translation Task
Kelly Marchisio, Yash Kumar Lal and Philipp Koehn
 NICT’s Unsupervised Neural and Statistical Machine Translation Systems for the WMT19 News Translation Task
Benjamin Marie, Haipeng Sun, Rui Wang, Kehai Chen, Atsushi Fujita, Masao Utiyama and Eiichiro Sumita
 PROMT Systems for WMT 2019 Shared Translation Task
Alexander Molchanov
 JU-Saarland Submission to the WMT2019 English–Gujarati Translation Shared Task
Riktim Mondal, Shankha Raj Nayek, Aditya Chowdhury, Santanu Pal, Sudip Kumar Naskar and Josef van Genabith
 Facebook FAIR’s WMT19 News Translation Task Submission
Nathan Ng, Kyra Yee, Alexei Baevski, Myle Ott, Michael Auli and Sergey Edunov
 eTranslation’s Submissions to the WMT 2019 News Translation Task
Csaba Oravecz, Katina Bontcheva, Adrien Lardilleux, László Tihanyi and Andreas Eisele
 Tilde’s Machine Translation Systems for WMT 2019
Marcis Pinnis, Rihards Krišlauks and Matiss Rikters
 Apertium-fin-eng–Rule-based Shallow Machine Translation for WMT 2019 Shared Task
Tommi Pirinen
 English-Czech Systems in WMT19: Document-Level Transformer
Martin Popel, Dominik Macháček, Michal Auersperger, Ondřej Bojar and Pavel Pecina
 The RWTH Aachen University Machine Translation Systems for WMT 2019
Jan Rosendahl, Christian Herold, Yunsu Kim, Miguel Graça, Weiyue Wang, Parnia Bahar, Yingbo Gao and Hermann Ney
 The Universitat d’Alacant Submissions to the English-to-Kazakh News Translation Task at WMT 2019
Víctor M. Sánchez-Cartagena, Juan Antonio Pérez-Ortiz and Felipe Sánchez-Martínez
 CUED@WMT19:EWC&LMs
Felix Stahlberg, Danielle Saunders, Adrià de Gispert and Bill Byrne
 Baidu Neural Machine Translation Systems for WMT19
Meng Sun, Bojian Jiang, Hao Xiong, Zhongjun He, Hua Wu and Haifeng Wang
 University of Tartu’s Multilingual Multi-domain WMT19 News Translation Shared Task Submission
Andre Tättar, Elizaveta Korotkova and Mark Fishel
 Neural Machine Translation for English–Kazakh with Morphological Segmentation and Synthetic Data
Antonio Toral, Lukas Edman, Galiya Yeshmagambetova and Jennifer Spenader
 The LMU Munich Unsupervised Machine Translation System for WMT19
Dario Stojanovski, Viktor Hangya, Matthias Huck and Alexander Fraser
 Combining Local and Document-Level Context: The LMU Munich Neural Machine Translation System at WMT19
Dario Stojanovski and Alexander Fraser
 IITP-MT System for Gujarati-English News Translation Task at WMT 2019
Sukanta Sen, Kamal Kumar Gupta, Asif Ekbal and Pushpak Bhattacharyya
 The University of Helsinki Submissions to the WMT19 News Translation Task
Aarne Talman, Umut Sulubacak, Raúl Vázquez, Yves Scherrer, Sami Virpioja, Alessandro Raganato, Arvi Hurskainen and Jörg Tiedemann
 Microsoft Research Asia’s Systems for WMT19
Yingce Xia, Xu Tan, Fei Tian, Fei Gao, Di He, Weicong Chen, Yang Fan, Linyuan Gong, Yichong Leng, Renqian Luo, Yiren Wang, Lijun Wu, Jinhua Zhu, Tao Qin and Tie-Yan Liu
 The En-Ru Two-way Integrated Machine Translation System Based on Transformer
Doron Yu
 DFKI-NMT Submission to the WMT19 News Translation Task
Jingyi Zhang and Josef van Genabith
11:00–12:30Shared Task: Test Suites
 Linguistic Evaluation of German-English Machine Translation Using a Test Suite
Eleftherios Avramidis, Vivien Macketanz, Ursula Strohriegel and Hans Uszkoreit
 A Test Suite and Manual Evaluation of Document-Level NMT at WMT19
Kateřina Rysová, Magdaléna Rysová, Tomáš Musil, Lucie Poláková and Ondřej Bojar
 Evaluating Conjunction Disambiguation on English-to-German and French-to-German WMT 2019 Translation Hypotheses
Maja Popović
 The MuCoW Test Suite at WMT 2019: Automatically Harvested Multilingual Contrastive Word Sense Disambiguation Test Sets for Machine Translation
Alessandro Raganato, Yves Scherrer and Jörg Tiedemann
 SAO WMT19 Test Suite: Machine Translation of Audit Reports
Tereza Vojtěchová, Michal Novák, Miloš Klouček and Ondřej Bojar
11:00–12:30Shared Task: Metrics
 WMDO: Fluency-based Word Mover’s Distance for Machine Translation Evaluation
Julian Chow, Lucia Specia and Pranava Madhyastha
 Meteor++ 2.0: Adopt Syntactic Level Paraphrase Knowledge into Machine Translation Evaluation
Yinuo Guo and Junfeng Hu
 YiSi - a Unified Semantic MT Quality Evaluation and Estimation Metric for Languages with Different Levels of Available Resources
Chi-kiu Lo
 EED: Extended Edit Distance Measure for Machine Translation
Peter Stanchev, Weiyue Wang and Hermann Ney
 Filtering Pseudo-References by Paraphrasing for Automatic Evaluation of Machine Translation
Ryoma Yoshimura, Hiroki Shimanaka, Yukio Matsumura, Hayahide Yamagishi and Mamoru Komachi
11:00–12:30Shared Task: Robustness
 Naver Labs Europe’s Systems for the WMT19 Machine Translation Robustness Task
Alexandre Berard, Ioan Calapodescu and Claude Roux
 NICT’s Supervised Neural Machine Translation Systems for the WMT19 Translation Robustness Task
Raj Dabre and Eiichiro Sumita
 System Description: The Submission of FOKUS to the WMT 19 Robustness Task
Cristian Grozea
 CUNI System for the WMT19 Robustness Task
Jindřich Helcl, Jindřich Libovický and Martin Popel
 NTT’s Machine Translation Systems for WMT19 Robustness Task
Soichiro Murakami, Makoto Morishita, Tsutomu Hirao and Masaaki Nagata
 JHU 2019 Robustness Task System Description
Matt Post and Kevin Duh
 Robust Machine Translation with Domain Sensitive Pseudo-Sources: Baidu-OSU WMT19 MT Robustness Shared Task System Report
Renjie Zheng, Hairong Liu, Mingbo Ma, Baigong Zheng and Liang Huang
 Improving Robustness of Neural Machine Translation with Multi-task Learning
Shuyan Zhou, Xiangkai Zeng, Yingqi Zhou, Antonios Anastasopoulos and Graham Neubig
12:30–14:00Lunch
 14:00–15:30 Panel on "Open Problems in Machine Translation" (chair Ondrej Bojar; (slides)): Alex Fraser (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), Alon Lavie (Unbabel), Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt (Microsoft), Yvette Graham (Dublin City University)
15:30–16:00Coffee Break
 16:00–17:30 Session 4: Research Papers on Modeling and Analysis (chair: Matthias Huck)
16:00–16:15Saliency-driven Word Alignment Interpretation for Neural Machine Translation
Shuoyang Ding, Hainan Xu and Philipp Koehn
16:15–16:30Improving Zero-shot Translation with Language-Independent Constraints
Ngoc-Quan Pham, Jan Niehues, Thanh-Le Ha and Alexander Waibel
16:30–16:45Incorporating Source Syntax into Transformer-Based Neural Machine Translation
Anna Currey and Kenneth Heafield
16:45–17:00APE at Scale and Its Implications on MT Evaluation Biases
Markus Freitag, Isaac Caswell and Scott Roy
17:00–17:15Generalizing Back-Translation in Neural Machine Translation
Miguel Graça, Yunsu Kim, Julian Schamper, Shahram Khadivi and Hermann Ney
17:15–17:30Tagged Back-Translation
Isaac Caswell, Ciprian Chelba and David Grangier

Friday, August 2, 2019

 9:00–10:30 Session 5: Shared Tasks Overview Presentations II (chair: Mark Fishel)
9:00–9:20Findings of the WMT 2019 Shared Tasks on Quality Estimation
Erick Fonseca, Lisa Yankovskaya, André F. T. Martins, Mark Fishel and Christian Federmann
9:20–9:40Findings of the WMT 2019 Shared Task on Automatic Post-Editing
Rajen Chatterjee, Christian Federmann, Matteo Negri and Marco Turchi
9:40–10:00Findings of the WMT 2019 Biomedical Translation Shared Task: Evaluation for MEDLINE Abstracts and Biomedical Terminologies
Rachel Bawden, Kevin Bretonnel Cohen, Cristian Grozea, Antonio Jimeno Yepes, Madeleine Kittner, Martin Krallinger, Nancy Mah, Aurelie Neveol, Mariana Neves, Felipe Soares, Amy Siu, Karin Verspoor and Maika Vicente Navarro
10:00–10:15Shared Task on Similar Languages
10:15–10:30Findings of the WMT 2019 Shared Task on Parallel Corpus Filtering for Low-Resource Conditions
Philipp Koehn, Francisco Guzmán, Vishrav Chaudhary and Juan Pino
10:30-11:00Coffee Break
 11:00–12:30 Session 2: Shared Task Poster Session I
11:00–12:30Shared Task: Quality Estimation
 RTM Stacking Results for Machine Translation Performance Prediction
Ergun Biçici
 Unbabel’s Participation in the WMT19 Translation Quality Estimation Shared Task
Fabio Kepler, Jonay Trénous, Marcos Treviso, Miguel Vera, António Góis, M. Amin Farajian, António V. Lopes and André F. T. Martins
 QE BERT: Bilingual BERT Using Multi-task Learning for Neural Quality Estimation
Hyun Kim, Joon-Ho Lim, Hyun-Ki Kim and Seung-Hoon Na
 MIPT System for World-Level Quality Estimation
Mikhail Mosyagin and Varvara Logacheva
 NJU Submissions for the WMT19 Quality Estimation Shared Task
Hou Qi
 Quality Estimation and Translation Metrics via Pre-trained Word and Sentence Embeddings
Elizaveta Yankovskaya, Andre Tättar and Mark Fishel
 SOURCE: SOURce-Conditional Elmo-style Model for Machine Translation Quality Estimation
Junpei Zhou, Zhisong Zhang and Zecong Hu
11:00–12:30Shared Task: Automatic Post-Editing
 Transformer-based Automatic Post-Editing Model with Joint Encoder and Multi-source Attention of Decoder
WonKee Lee, Jaehun Shin and Jong-Hyeok Lee
 Unbabel’s Submission to the WMT2019 APE Shared Task: BERT-Based Encoder-Decoder for Automatic Post-Editing
António V. Lopes, M. Amin Farajian, Gonçalo M. Correia, Jonay Trénous and André F. T. Martins
 USAAR-DFKI – The Transference Architecture for English–German Automatic Post-Editing
Santanu Pal, Hongfei Xu, Nico Herbig, Antonio Krüger and Josef van Genabith
 APE through Neural and Statistical MT with Augmented Data. ADAPT/DCU Submission to the WMT 2019 APE Shared Task
Dimitar Shterionov, Joachim Wagner and Félix do Carmo
 Effort-Aware Neural Automatic Post-Editing
Amirhossein Tebbifakhr, Matteo Negri and Marco Turchi
 UdS Submission for the WMT 19 Automatic Post-Editing Task
Hongfei Xu, Qiuhui Liu and Josef van Genabith
11:00–12:30Shared Task: Biomedical Translation
 Terminology-Aware Segmentation and Domain Feature for the WMT19 Biomedical Translation Task
Casimiro Pio Carrino, Bardia Rafieian, Marta R. Costa-jussà and José A. R. Fonollosa
 Exploring Transfer Learning and Domain Data Selection for the Biomedical Translation
Noor-e- Hira, Sadaf Abdul Rauf, Kiran Kiani, Ammara Zafar and Raheel Nawaz
 Huawei’s NMT Systems for the WMT 2019 Biomedical Translation Task
Wei Peng, Jianfeng Liu, Liangyou Li and Qun Liu
 UCAM Biomedical Translation at WMT19: Transfer Learning Multi-domain Ensembles
Danielle Saunders, Felix Stahlberg and Bill Byrne
 BSC Participation in the WMT Translation of Biomedical Abstracts
Felipe Soares and Martin Krallinger
11:00–12:30Shared Task: Similar Languages
 The MLLP-UPV Spanish-Portuguese and Portuguese-Spanish Machine Translation Systems for WMT19 Similar Language Translation Task
Pau Baquero-Arnal, Javier Iranzo-Sánchez, Jorge Civera and Alfons Juan
 The TALP-UPC System for the WMT Similar Language Task: Statistical vs Neural Machine Translation
Magdalena Biesialska, Lluis Guardia and Marta R. Costa-jussà
 Machine Translation from an Intercomprehension Perspective
Yu Chen and Tania Avgustinova
 Utilizing Monolingual Data in NMT for Similar Languages: Submission to Similar Language Translation Task
Jyotsana Khatri and Pushpak Bhattacharyya
 Neural Machine Translation: Hindi-Nepali
Sahinur Rahman Laskar, Partha Pakray and Sivaji Bandyopadhyay
 NICT’s Machine Translation Systems for the WMT19 Similar Language Translation Task
Benjamin Marie, Raj Dabre and Atsushi Fujita
 Panlingua-KMI MT System for Similar Language Translation Task at WMT 2019
Atul Kr. Ojha, Ritesh Kumar, Akanksha Bansal and Priya Rani
 UDS–DFKI Submission to the WMT2019 Czech–Polish Similar Language Translation Shared Task
Santanu Pal, Marcos Zampieri and Josef van Genabith
 Neural Machine Translation of Low-Resource and Similar Languages with Backtranslation
Michael Przystupa and Muhammad Abdul-Mageed
 The University of Helsinki Submissions to the WMT19 Similar Language Translation Task
Yves Scherrer, Raúl Vázquez and Sami Virpioja
11:00–12:30Shared Task: Parallel Corpus Filtering
 Dual Monolingual Cross-Entropy Delta Filtering of Noisy Parallel Data
Amittai Axelrod, Anish Kumar and Steve Sloto
 NRC Parallel Corpus Filtering System for WMT 2019
Gabriel Bernier-Colborne and Chi-kiu Lo
 Low-Resource Corpus Filtering Using Multilingual Sentence Embeddings
Vishrav Chaudhary, Yuqing Tang, Francisco Guzmán, Holger Schwenk and Philipp Koehn
 Quality and Coverage: The AFRL Submission to the WMT19 Parallel Corpus Filtering for Low-Resource Conditions Task
Grant Erdmann and Jeremy Gwinnup
 Webinterpret Submission to the WMT2019 Shared Task on Parallel Corpus Filtering
Jesús González-Rubio
 Noisy Parallel Corpus Filtering through Projected Word Embeddings
Murathan Kurfalı and Robert Östling
 Filtering of Noisy Parallel Corpora Based on Hypothesis Generation
Zuzanna Parcheta, Germán Sanchis-Trilles and Francisco Casacuberta
 Parallel Corpus Filtering Based on Fuzzy String Matching
Sukanta Sen, Asif Ekbal and Pushpak Bhattacharyya
 The University of Helsinki Submission to the WMT19 Parallel Corpus Filtering Task
Raúl Vázquez, Umut Sulubacak and Jörg Tiedemann
12:30–14:00Lunch
 14:00–15:30 Session 7: Invited Talk (chair: Matt Post)
14:00–15:30Marine Carpuat (University of Maryland): Semantic, Style and Other Data Divergences in Neural Machine Translation
15:30–16:00Coffee Break
 16:00–17:30 Session 8: Research Papers on Applications (chair: Marco Turchi)
16:00–16:15Hierarchical Document Encoder for Parallel Corpus Mining
Mandy Guo, Yinfei Yang, Keith Stevens, Daniel Cer, Heming Ge, Yun-hsuan Sung, Brian Strope and Ray Kurzweil
16:15–16:30The Effect of Translationese in Machine Translation Test Sets
Mike Zhang and Antonio Toral
16:30–16:45Customizing Neural Machine Translation for Subtitling
Evgeny Matusov, Patrick Wilken and Yota Georgakopoulou
16:45–17:00Integration of Dubbing Constraints into Machine Translation
Ashutosh Saboo and Timo Baumann
17:00–17:15Widening the Representation Bottleneck in Neural Machine Translation with Lexical Shortcuts
Denis Emelin, Ivan Titov and Rico Sennrich
17:15–17:30A High-Quality Multilingual Dataset for Structured Documentation Translation
Kazuma Hashimoto, Raffaella Buschiazzo, James Bradbury, Teresa Marshall, Richard Socher and Caiming Xiong