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| 8:45 | Opening Remarks |
| 9:00 | Session 1: Shared Tasks Overview Presentations I
Barry Haddow |
| 9:00 | Findings 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, Marcos Zampieri |
| 9:35 | Test Suites |
| 9:50 | Results of the WMT19 Metrics Shared Task: Segment-Level and Strong MT Systems Pose Big Challenges
Qingsong Ma, Johnny Wei, Ondřej Bojar, Yvette Graham |
| 10:10 | Findings 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, Hassan Sajjad |
| 10:30 | ☕️ |
| 11:00 | Session 2: Shared Task Poster Session I |
| 11:00 | Shared 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, Alexandra Birch |
| GTCOM Neural Machine Translation Systems for WMT19
Chao Bei, Hao Zong, Conghu Yuan, Qingming Liu, 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, Adrien Bardet |
| The University of Maryland’s Kazakh-English Neural Machine Translation System at WMT19
Eleftheria Briakou, Marine Carpuat |
| DBMS-KU Interpolation for WMT19 News Translation Task
Sari Dewi Budiwati, Al Hafiz Akbar Maulana Siagian, Tirana Noor Fatyanosa, 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, Marta R. Costa-jussà |
| Kyoto University Participation to the WMT 2019 News Shared Task
Fabien Cromieres, 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, Eiichiro Sumita |
| The University of Sydney’s Machine Translation System for WMT19
Liang Ding, Dacheng Tao |
| UdS-DFKI Participation at WMT 2019: Low-Resource (en-gu) and Coreference-Aware (en-de) Systems
Cristina España-Bonet, Dana Ruiter |
| The IIIT-H Gujarati-English Machine Translation System for WMT19
Vikrant Goyal, 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, Changliang Li |
| The AFRL WMT19 Systems: Old Favorites and New Tricks
Jeremy Gwinnup, Grant Erdmann, Tim Anderson |
| Evaluating the Supervised and Zero-shot Performance of Multi-lingual Translation Models
Chris Hokamp, John Glover, Demian Gholipour Ghalandari |
| The MLLP-UPV Supervised Machine Translation Systems for WMT19 News Translation Task
Javier Iranzo-Sánchez, Gonçal Garcés Díaz-Munío, Jorge Civera, 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, Ondřej Bojar |
| CUNI Systems for the Unsupervised News Translation Task in WMT 2019
Ivana Kvapilíková, Dominik Macháček, Ondřej Bojar |
| A Comparison on Fine-grained Pre-trained Embeddings for the WMT19Chinese-English News Translation Task
Zhenhao Li, 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, Jingbo Zhu |
| Multi-Source Transformer for Kazakh-Russian-English Neural Machine Translation
Patrick Littell, Chi-kiu Lo, Samuel Larkin, Darlene Stewart |
| Incorporating Word and Subword Units in Unsupervised Machine Translation Using Language Model Rescoring
Zihan Liu, Yan Xu, Genta Indra Winata, 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, Sivaji Bandyopadhyay |
| Johns Hopkins University Submission for WMT News Translation Task
Kelly Marchisio, Yash Kumar Lal, 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, 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, Josef van Genabith |
| Facebook FAIR’s WMT19 News Translation Task Submission
Nathan Ng, Kyra Yee, Alexei Baevski, Myle Ott, Michael Auli, Sergey Edunov |
| eTranslation’s Submissions to the WMT 2019 News Translation Task
Csaba Oravecz, Katina Bontcheva, Adrien Lardilleux, László Tihanyi, Andreas Eisele |
| Tilde’s Machine Translation Systems for WMT 2019
Marcis Pinnis, Rihards Krišlauks, 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, 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, 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, Felipe Sánchez-Martínez |
| CUED@WMT19:EWC&LMs
Felix Stahlberg, Danielle Saunders, Adrià de Gispert, Bill Byrne |
| Baidu Neural Machine Translation Systems for WMT19
Meng Sun, Bojian Jiang, Hao Xiong, Zhongjun He, Hua Wu, Haifeng Wang |
| University of Tartu’s Multilingual Multi-domain WMT19 News Translation Shared Task Submission
Andre Tättar, Elizaveta Korotkova, Mark Fishel |
| Neural Machine Translation for English–Kazakh with Morphological Segmentation and Synthetic Data
Antonio Toral, Lukas Edman, Galiya Yeshmagambetova, Jennifer Spenader |
| The LMU Munich Unsupervised Machine Translation System for WMT19
Dario Stojanovski, Viktor Hangya, Matthias Huck, Alexander Fraser |
| Combining Local and Document-Level Context: The LMU Munich Neural Machine Translation System at WMT19
Dario Stojanovski, Alexander Fraser |
| IITP-MT System for Gujarati-English News Translation Task at WMT 2019
Sukanta Sen, Kamal Kumar Gupta, Asif Ekbal, 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, 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, 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, Josef van Genabith |
| 11:00 | Shared Task: Test Suites |
| Linguistic Evaluation of German-English Machine Translation Using a Test Suite
Eleftherios Avramidis, Vivien Macketanz, Ursula Strohriegel, Hans Uszkoreit |
| A Test Suite and Manual Evaluation of Document-Level NMT at WMT19
Kateřina Rysová, Magdaléna Rysová, Tomáš Musil, Lucie Poláková, 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, Jörg Tiedemann |
| SAO WMT19 Test Suite: Machine Translation of Audit Reports
Tereza Vojtěchová, Michal Novák, Miloš Klouček, Ondřej Bojar |
| 11:00 | Shared Task: Metrics |
| WMDO: Fluency-based Word Mover’s Distance for Machine Translation Evaluation
Julian Chow, Lucia Specia, Pranava Madhyastha |
| Meteor++ 2.0: Adopt Syntactic Level Paraphrase Knowledge into Machine Translation Evaluation
Yinuo Guo, 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, Hermann Ney |
| Filtering Pseudo-References by Paraphrasing for Automatic Evaluation of Machine Translation
Ryoma Yoshimura, Hiroki Shimanaka, Yukio Matsumura, Hayahide Yamagishi, Mamoru Komachi |
| 11:00 | Shared Task: Robustness |
| Naver Labs Europe’s Systems for the WMT19 Machine Translation Robustness Task
Alexandre Berard, Ioan Calapodescu, Claude Roux |
| NICT’s Supervised Neural Machine Translation Systems for the WMT19 Translation Robustness Task
Raj Dabre, Kehai Chen, Benjamin Marie, Rui Wang, Atsushi Fujita, Masao Utiyama, 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, Martin Popel |
| NTT’s Machine Translation Systems for WMT19 Robustness Task
Soichiro Murakami, Makoto Morishita, Tsutomu Hirao, Masaaki Nagata |
| JHU 2019 Robustness Task System Description
Matt Post, 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, Liang Huang |
| Improving Robustness of Neural Machine Translation with Multi-task Learning
Shuyan Zhou, Xiangkai Zeng, Yingqi Zhou, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Graham Neubig |
| 12:30 | 🍴 |
| 14:00 | Panel on "Open Problems in Machine Translation"
Alex Fraser (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Alon Lavie (Unbabel)
Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt (Microsoft)
Yvette Graham (Dublin City University)
Chair: Ondrej Bojar |
| 15:30 | ☕️ |
| 16:00 | Session 4: Research Papers on Modeling and Analysis
Chair: Matthias Huck |
| 16:00 | Saliency-driven Word Alignment Interpretation for Neural Machine Translation
Shuoyang Ding, Hainan Xu, Philipp Koehn |
| 16:15 | Improving Zero-shot Translation with Language-Independent Constraints
Ngoc-Quan Pham, Jan Niehues, Thanh-Le Ha, Alexander Waibel |
| 16:30 | Incorporating Source Syntax into Transformer-Based Neural Machine Translation
Anna Currey, Kenneth Heafield |
| 16:45 | APE at Scale and Its Implications on MT Evaluation Biases
Markus Freitag, Isaac Caswell, Scott Roy |
| 17:00 | Generalizing Back-Translation in Neural Machine Translation
Miguel Graça, Yunsu Kim, Julian Schamper, Shahram Khadivi, Hermann Ney |
| 17:15 | Tagged Back-Translation
Isaac Caswell, Ciprian Chelba, David Grangier |