Workshop inside the conference Machine Translation Summit 2021
20 August 2021
Sections:
Call for Papers
To date, the production of audio-video content may have exceeded that of written texts. The need to make such content available across language barriers has increased the interest in spoken language translation (SLT), opening up new opportunities for the use of speech translation applications in different settings and for different scopes, such as live translation at international conferences, automatic subtitling for video accessibility, automatic or human-in-the-loop respeaking, or as a support system for human interpreters, to name just a few. Furthermore, specific needs are emerging in terms of user profiles, e.g. people with different abilities, and user experiences, e.g. use on mobile devices.
Against this backdrop, the Spoken Language Translation in Real-World Settings workshop aims to bring together researchers in the areas of computer science, translation, and interpreting, as well as users of SLT applications, such as international organizations, businesses, broadcasters, content media creators, to discuss the latest advances in speech translation technologies from both the perspective of the Computer Science and the Humanities, raising awareness on topics such as the challenges in evaluating current technologies in real-life scenarios, customization tools to improve performance, ethical issues, human-machine interaction, and so forth.
The online workshop will seek to answer these questions by inviting papers exploring topics including, but not limited to:
- Latest advances in cascading and end-to-end systems
- Use of spoken language translation system in a real-world scenario
- Automatic subtitling and dubbing
- Communicative inclusion through SLT
- Automatic or semi-automatic respeaking
- Customization of SLT systems to real-world applications
- Computer-assisted interpreting
- Data scarcity and underrepresented languages
- Potential and risks of SLT
- Ethical issues (bias, etc.)
- SLT evaluation
- Communicative-oriented evaluation of spoken language translation
- Benchmark creation
- Human-machine interaction
- Hybrid systems for spoken language translation
- Cross-lingual NER/summarization/retrieval from speech
- Automatic generation of meeting minuting
Program & Invited Speakers
| 09:00 - 09:10 | Opening: Claudio Fantinuoli & Marco Turchi |
| 09:10 - 09:55 |
Invited Talk Juan Pino, Facebook AI (bio) End-to-end Speech Translation at Facebook |
| 09:55 - 10:15 | Paper: Operating a Complex SLT System with Speakers and Human Interpreters,
Ondřej Bojar, Vojtěch Srdečný, Rishu Kumar, Otakar Smrž, Felix Schneider, Barry Haddow, Phil Williams, Chiara Canton |
| 10:15 - 10:35 |
Paper: Simultaneous Speech Translation for Live Subtitling: from Delay to Display Alina Karakanta, Sara Papi, Matteo Negri, Marco Turchi |
| 10:35 - 10:55 |
Paper: Post-Editing Job Profiles for Subtitlers Anke Tardel, Silvia Hansen-Schirra, Jean Nitzke |
| 10:55 - 11:15 |
Paper: Technology-Augmented Multilingual Communication Models Francesco Saina |
| 11:15 - 12:00 |
Invited Talk Bart Defrancq, Ghent University (bio) Will it take another 19 years? Cognitive Ergonomics of Computer-Assisted Interpreting (CAI) |
| LUNCH BREAK | |
| 13:00 - 13:45 |
Invited talk Silvia Hansen-Schirra, Mainz University (bio) CompAsS - Computer-Assisted Subtitling |
| 13:45 - 14:05 | Paper: Seed Words Based Data Selection for Language Model Adaptation
Roberto Gretter, Marco Matassoni, Daniele Falavigna |
| 14:05 - 14:50 |
Invited talk Marcello Federico, AMAZON AI (bio) Recent Efforts on Automatic Dubbing |
| 14:50 - max. 16:00 |
Discussion Closing remarks: Claudio Fantinuoli & Marco Turchi |
Scientific committee
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Nguyen Bach | Alibaba US |
| Laurent Besacier | University of Grenoble |
| Dragos Ciobanu | University of Vienna |
| Jorge Civera | Universitat Politècnica de València |
| Marta R. Costa-jussà | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya |
| Bart Defrancq | Ghent University |
| Marco Gaido | Fondazione Bruno Kessler |
| Hirofumi Inaguma | University of Kyoto |
| Alfons Juan | Universitat Politècnica de València |
| Alina Karakanta | Fondazione Bruno Kessler |
| Evgeny Matusov | AppTek |
| Jan Niehues | University of Maastricht |
| Sara Papi | Fondazione Bruno Kessler |
| Franz Pöchhacker | University of Vienna |
| Bianca Prandi | Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz |
| Pablo Romero-Fresco | Universidade de Vigo |
| Juan Pino | |
| Claudio Russello | UNINT - Rome |
| Matthias Sperber | Apple |
| Sebastian Stueker | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology |
| Shinji Watanabe | Johns Hopkins University |
Organizers
You are welcomed to contact the organizers for any question
Claudio Fantinuoli
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz / KUDO Inc.
E-Mail: fantinuoli(at)uni-mainz.de
Marco Turchi
Fondazione Bruno Kessler
E-Mail: turchi(at)fbk.eu
Declaration of financial support: The author(s) received financial support for the organization of this workshop from KUDO Inc. The support covered the conference fees of the invited speakers.