Monday 24th Oct

Welcome talk

Overview of the IWSLT05 Evaluation Campaign

Chiori Hori and Matthias Eck
(CMU)

The ITC-irst SMT System for IWSLT-2005

Boxing Chen, Roldano Cattoni, Nicola Bertoldi, Mauro Cettolo, Marcello Federico (ITC-irst)

NUT-NTT Statistical Machine Translation System for IWSLT 2005

Kazuteru Ohashi, Kazuhide Yamamoto, Kuniko Saito and Masaaki Nagata
(Nagaoaka University of Technology & NTT)

Tuning a phrase-based statistical translation system for the IWSLT 2005 Chinese to English and Arabic to English tasks

Marta R. Costa-jussa and Jose A. R. Fonollosa (TALP)

The TALP Ngram-based SMT System for IWSLT'05

Josep M. Crego, Adria de Gispert and Jose B. Marino (TALP)

IBM Statistical Machine Translation for Spoken Languages

Young-Suk Lee (IBM)

The CASIA Phrase-Based Machine Translation System

Wei Pang, Zhendong Yang, Zhenbiao Chen, Wei Wei, Bo Xu and Chengqing Zong (NLPR)

Edinburgh System Description for the 2005 IWSLT Speech Translation Evaluation

Philipp Koehn, Amittai Axelrod, Alexandra Birch Mayne, Chris Callison-Burch, Miles Osborneand  David Talbot (Edinburgh University)

The NTT Statistical Machine Translation System for IWSLT2005

Hajime Tsukada, Taro Watanabe, Jun Suzuki, Hideto Kazawa and Hideki Isozaki (NTT)

The MIT-LL/AFRL MT System

Wade Shen, Brian Delaney and Tim Anderson (MIT and Airforce)

Session 3: MT for ASR output
                Chair: Marcello Federico

The RWTH Phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation System

Richard Zens, Oliver Bender, Sasa Hasan, Shahram Khadivi, Evgeny Matusov, Jia Xu, Yuqi Zhang and Hermann Ney (RWTH)

A Decoding Algorithm for Word Lattice Translation in Speech Translation

Ruiqiang Zhang, Genichiro Kikui, Hirofumi Yamamoto and Wai-Kit Lo (ATR)

Using Multiple Recognition Hypotheses to Improve Speech Translation

Ruiqiang Zhang, Genichiro Kikui and Hirofumi Yamamoto (ATR)

The CMU Statistical Machine Translation System for IWSLT2005

Sanjika Hewavitharana, Bing Zhao, Almut Silja Hildebrand, Matthias
Eck, Chiori Hori, Stephan Vogel and Alex Waibel (CMU)

Banquet
(Bus transfer from the workshop venue to the banquet venue)

Tuesday 25th Oct

Session 6: Example-based, Rule-based and
                Hybrid MT
                Chair: Christian Boitet

A Pattern-Based Machine Translation System - Yakushite Net MT Engine

Miki Sasaki and Toshiki Murata (OKI)

Example-based Machine Translation Pursuing Fully Structural NLP

Sadao Kurohashi, Toshiaki Nakazawa and Kauffmann Alexis, Daisuke Kawahara (University of Tokyo)

ALEPH: an EBMT system based on the preservation of proportional analogies between sentences across languages

Yves LEPAGE and Etienne DENOUAL (ATR)

Nobody is Perfect: ATR's Hybrid Approach to Spoken Language Translation

Michael Paul, Takao Doi, Youngsook Hwang, Kenji Imamura, Hideo Okuma and Eiichiro Sumita (ATR)

Session 7:Syntax base MT
                Chair: Chengqing Zong

ISI's 2005 Statistical Machine Translation Entries

Steve DeNeefe and Kevin Knight (ISI)

Microsoft Research Treelet Translation System: IWSLT Evaluation

Arul Menezes and Chris Quirk (Microsoft)

Session 8: Technical Paper
                 Chair: Jun Park

Evaluating Machine Translation Output with Automatic Sentence Segmentation

Evgeny Matusov, Gregor Leusch, Oliver Bender and Hermann Ney (RWTH)

Machine Translation Evaluation Inside QARLA

Jesus Gimenez, Enrique Amigo and Chiori Hori (UPC, UNED & CMU)

Rapid Development of an Afrikaans-English Speech-to-Speech Translator

Herman A. Engelbrecht and Tanja Schultz
(University of Stellenbosch, South Africa & CMU)

Integrated Chinese Word Segmentation in Statistical Machine Translation

Jia Xu and Evgeny Matusov and Richard Zens and Hermann Ney (RWTH)

Ngram-based versus Phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation

Josep M. Crego, Marta R. Costa-jussa, Jose B. Mario and Jose A. R. Fonollosa
(TALP)

Matthias Eck, Stephan Vogel and Alex Waibel (CMU)