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WAT 2014

The 1st Workshop on Asian Translation

9:30am-12:00pm, October 4, 2014
Lecture Room 241, 4th floor, Faculty of Engineering Bldg.2,
Hongo Campus, The University of Tokyo, Japan [MAP]

[PHOTOS] | [TIMETABLE] | [INVITED TALK] | [IMPORTANT DATES] | [TASK] | [EVALUATION] | [BASELINE SYSTEM] | [PAPER SUBMISSION INFORMATION] | [REGISTRATION] | [PAPERS] | [CONTACT]
WAT 2015 is now open.
PHOTOS is now open.
PAPERS is now open.

INTRODUCTION

The Workshop on Asian Translation (WAT) is a new open evaluation campaign focusing on Asian languages. We would like to invite a broad range of participants and conduct various forms of machine translation experiments and evaluation. Collecting and sharing our knowledge will allow us to understand the essence of machine translation and the problems to be solved. We are working toward the practical use of machine translation among all Asian countries.

For the 1st WAT, we chose scientific papers as the targeted domain, and selected the languages Japanese, Chinese and English.

What makes WAT unique:

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TIMETABLE

9:30Welcome
9:30 - 10:10Invited talk: Hamman Riza
10:10 - 10:25Overview of WAT2014: Toshiaki Nakazawa, Hideya Mino, Isao Goto, Sadao Kurohashi, Eiichiro Sumita
10:25 - 10:40Weblio Pre-reordering Statistical Machine Translation System: Zhongyuan Zhu
10:40 - 10:55Forest-to-String SMT for Asian Language Translation: NAIST at WAT 2014: Graham Neubig
10:55 - 11:00Break
11:00 - 11:10Poster booster session (10 systems)
11:10 - 11:50Poster presentation (all 12 systems)
11:50 - 12:00Closing
12:00 - 12:05Commemorative photo
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INVITED TALK

Dr. Ir. Hammam Riza, Director, Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology (BPPT)
[Short bio.]

Title: Leveraging ASEAN economic communities 2015 through Language Translation
[slide]

(Click here to more information. )

Time: 9:30am-10:10am
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IMPORTANT DATES

Crowdsourcing evaluation dueAugust 31, 2014July 31, 2014
System description draft paper dueSeptember 14, 2014August 31, 2014
Review feedbackSeptember 21, 2014September 7, 2014
System description camera-ready paper dueSeptember 28, 2014September 14, 2014
WAT 20149:30am-12:00pm, October 4, 2014
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TASK

The task is to improve the text translation quality for scientific papers. Participants choose any of the subtasks in which they would like to participate and translate the test data using their machine translation systems. The WAT organizers will evaluate the results submitted using automatic evaluation and human evaluation by crowdsourcing. We also provide a baseline machine translation system using Moses.

Subtasks:

Dataset:

WAT uses ASPEC for the dataset including training, development, development test and test data. Participants must get a copy of ASPEC by themselves. ASPEC consists of approximately 3 million Japanese-English parallel sentences from paper abstracts (ASPEC-JE) and approximately 0.7 million Japanese-Chinese paper excerpts (ASPEC-JC).

Baseline system:

Baseline systems site is now open.

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EVALUATION

We will evaluate the translation performance of the results submitted through automatic evaluation and human evaluation.

Automatic evaluation:
We will prepare an automatic evaluation server. You will be able to evaluate the translation results at any time using this server.

Human evaluation:
Human evaluation will be carried out using crowdsourcing. Organizers will sample 400 sentences from the test data for human evaluation. Participants can submit translation results for the human evaluation a maximum of twice until the crowdsourcing evaluation is due.

Submission:

Submission site is now open.
(User Name and Password is necessary to access.)

Evaluation results:

Evaluation results site is now open.

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PAPER SUBMISSION INFORMATION

Participants who submit results for human evaluation should submit description papers of their translation systems and evaluation results. All submissions and feedback are handled electronically as below.

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REGISTRATION

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ORGANIZERS

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CONTACT

For questions, comments, etc. please email to "wat-at-nlp.ist.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp".

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The Association for Natural Language Processing (Japanese Page)
Asian Scientific Paper Excerpt Corpus (ASPEC)
Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)

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CHANGE LOG

2014-10-12: INVITED TALK slide
2014-10-12: PAPERS slides
2014-10-06: PHOTOS
2014-10-01: PAPERS
2014-09-25: TIMETABLE
2014-07-17: IMPORTANT DATES (Extended)
2014-07-14: baseline system site, submission site and evaluation results site open
2014-07-04: registration site open
2014-03-05: site open

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JST (Japan Science and Technology Agency)
NICT (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology)
Kyoto University
Last Modified: 2015-02-25