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2006 TC-STAR Open Evaluation Campaign

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TC-STAR Demonstration Descriptions Leaflet
MONDAY, June 19 Spoken Language Translation
Registration
08:15-09:00
Opening
09:00-09:20	Opening of the Workshop
	Gianni Lazzari, ITC-irst, Italy
Invited Talk
09:20-10:20	Challenges in Machine Translation [bibtex]
	Franz Och, Google Research, USA
Overview Session
10:20-11:00	Overview of the SLT Evaluation
	Hermann Ney, RWTH Aachen, Germany
11:00-11:30	Coffee Break
Spoken Language Translation 1
11:30-11:50	IBM Spoken Language Translation System [bibtex]
	Young-Suk Lee, Yaser Al-Onaizan, Kishore Papineni, Salim Roukos, IBM, USA
11:50-12:10	ITC-irst at the 2006 TC-STAR SLT Evaluation Campaign [bibtex]
	Nicola Bertoldi, Roldano Cattoni, Mauro Cettolo, Boxing Chen, Marcello Federico, ITC-irst, Italy
12:10-12:30	The 2006 LIMSI Statistical Machine Translation System for TC-STAR [bibtex]
	Daniel Dechelotte, Holger Schwenk, Jean-Luc Gauvain, LIMSI-CNRS, France
12:30-12:50	The RWTH Machine Translation System [bibtex]
	Evgeny Matusov, Richard Zens, David Vilar, Arne Mauser, Maja Popovic, Sasa Hasan, Hermann Ney, RWTH Aachen, Germany
12:50-14:30	Lunch Break
Invited Talk
14:30-15:30	Present and Future of the Machine Translation in the Directorate-General for Translation of the European Commission [bibtex]
	Josep Bonet, European Commission
15:30-16:00	Coffee Break
Spoken Language Translation 2
16:00-16:20	Edinburgh System Description for the 2006 TC-STAR Spoken Language Translation Evaluation [bibtex]
	Abhishek Arun, Amittai Axelrod, Alexandra Birch Mayne, Chris Callison-Burch, Hieu Hoang, Philipp Koehn, Miles Osborne, David Talbot, U Edinburgh, UK
16:20-16:40	UPC's Bilingual N-gram Translation System [bibtex]
	José B. Mariño, Rafael E. Banchs, Josep M. Crego, Adrià de Gispert, Patrik Lambert, José A. R. Fonollosa, Marta R. Costa-jussà, Maxim Khalilov, UP Catalunya, Spain
16:40-17:00	The ITI Statistical Machine Translation System [bibtex]
	Jesús Tomás, Juan Miguel Vilar, Francisco Casacuberta, UP Valencia, Spain
17:00-17:20	Statistical Machine Translation of Parliamentary Proceedings Using Morpho-Syntactic Knowledge [bibtex]
	Katrin Kirchhoff, Mei Yang, Kevin Duh, U Washington, USA
17:20-17:50	Break: Demonstrations and Coffee
Spoken Language Translation 3
17:50-18:10	ICT System Description for the 2006 TC-STAR Run #2 SLT Evaluation [bibtex]
	Zhongjun He, Yang Liu, Deyi Xiong, Hongxu Hou, Qun Liu, ICT, China
18:10-18:30	CASIA SMT System for TC-STAR Evaluation Campaign 2006 [bibtex]
	Wei Wei, Wei Pang, Zhendong Yang, JinHua Du, Zhenbiao Chen, Chengqing Zong, Bo Xu, NLPR, China
18:30-18:50	PORTAGE Phrase-Based System for Chinese-to-English Translation [bibtex]
	Roland Kuhn, George Foster, Samuel Larkin, Nicola Ueffing, NRC-IIT, Canada
TUESDAY, June 20 Spoken Language Translation and Automatic Speech Recognition
Spoken Language Translation 4
09:00-09:20	Open Domain Speech Translation: From Seminars and Speeches to Lectures [bibtex]
	Christian Fügen, Muntsin Kolss, Matthias Paulik, Alex Waibel, U Karlsruhe, Germany
09:20-09:40	On the Use of Multigram Models for Automatic Translation [bibtex]
	Yassine Mami, Géraldine Damnati, France Telecom, France
09:40-10:00	Local Reordering in Statistical Machine Translation [bibtex]
	Young-Suk Lee, Niyu Ge, IBM, USA
10:00-10:20	Error Analysis of Verb Inflections in Spanish Translation Output [bibtex]
	Maja Popovic, Hermann Ney, RWTH Aachen, Germany
10:20-10:40	Multiple-Target Machine Translation using Finite-State Transducers [bibtex]
	María-Teresa González, Francisco Casacuberta, UP Valencia, Spain
10:40-11:10	Coffee Break
Invited Talk
11:10-12:10	Complementary System Combination and Generation for ASR [bibtex]
	Mark Gales, U. of Cambridge, UK
Overview Session
12:10-12:50	Overview of the ASR Evaluation
	Jean-Luc Gauvain, LIMSI-CNRS, France
12:50-14:30	Lunch Break
Automatic Speech Recognition 1
14:30-14:50	The IBM 2006 Speech Transcription System for European Parliamentary Speeches [bibtex]
	Bhuvana Ramabhadran, O. Siohan, L. Mangu, G. Zweig, M. Westphal, H. Schulz, A. Soneiro, IBM, USA
14:50-15:10	The ITC-irst Transcription Systems for the TC-STAR-06 Evaluation Campaign [bibtex]
	Fabio Brugnara, Daniele Falavigna, Diego Giuliani, Roberto Gretter, Diego Pineda, Georg Stemmer , ITC-irst, Italy
15:10-15:30	The LIMSI 2006 TC-STAR Transcription Systems [bibtex]
	Lori Lamel, Jean-Luc Gauvain, Gilles Adda, Claude Barras, Eric Bilinski, Olivier Galibert, Agusti Pujol, Holger Schwenk, Xuan Zhu, LIMSI-CNRS, France
15:30-15:50	Nokia's System For TC-STAR EPPS English ASR Evaluation Task [bibtex]
	Imre Kiss, Jussi Leppanen, Sunil Sivadas, Nokia, Finland
15:50-16:10	The 2006 RWTH Parliamentary Speeches Transcription System [bibtex]
	Jonas Loeoef, Maximilian Bisani, Christian Gollan, Georg Heigold, Bjoern Hoffmeister, Christian Plahl, Ralf Schlueter, Hermann Ney, RWTH Aachen, Germany
16:10-16:40	Break: Demonstrations and Coffee
Automatic Speech Recognition 2
16:40-17:00	The ISL TC-STAR Spring 2006 ASR Evaluation Systems [bibtex]
	Sebastian Stüker, Christian Fügen, Roger Hsiao, Shajith Ikbal, Qin Jin, Florian Kraft, Matthias Paulik, Martin Raab, Yik-Cheung Tam, Matthias Wölfel, U Karlsruhe, Germany
17:00-17:20	TC-STAR 2006 Automatic Speech Recognition Evaluation: The UVIGO System [bibtex]
	Laura Docio-Fernandez, Antonio Cardenal-Lopez, Carmen Garcia-Mateo, U Vigo, Spain
17:20-17:40	Acoustic Model Adaptation with Multiple Supervisions [bibtex]
	Diego Giuliani, Fabio Brugnara, ITC-irst, Italy
17:40-18:00	Lattice Rescoring Experiments with Duration Models [bibtex]
	Nicolas Jennequin, Jean-Luc Gauvain, LIMSI-CNRS, France
18:00-18:20	Correlation Analysis for the Derivation of Speech Recognition Features Based on an Auditory Model [bibtex]
	Franck Giron, Sony, Germany
WEDNESDAY, June 21 Speech Synthesis
Invited Talk
09:00-10:00	Technology-based Speech Synthesis: What Does the Customer Expect? [bibtex]
	Nick Campbell, ATR, Japan
Overview
10:00-10:40	Overview of the TTS Evaluation
	Antonio Bonafonte, UPC, Spain
10:40-11:10	Coffee Break
Speech Synthesis 1
11:10-11:30	Validation of Language Resources in TC-STAR [bibtex]
	Henk Van den Heuvel, Eric Sanders, U Nijmegen, Netherlands
11:30-11:50	Internal Dependence Based F0 Model for Mandarin TTS System [bibtex]
	Jianhua Tao, Jian Yu, Wanzhi Zhang, NLPR, China
11:50-12:10	The 2006 TC-STAR Evaluation of the IBM Text-to-Speech Synthesis System [bibtex]
	Raul Fernandez, Raimo Bakis, Ellen Eide, Wael Hamza, John Pitrelli, Michael Picheny, IBM, USA
12:10-12:30	Overview of the IBM Mandarin Text-to-Speech System [bibtex]
	Dan-ning Jiang, Qin Shi, Fan-ping Meng, Zhi-Wei Shuang, Xi-jun Ma, Yi Liu, Yong Qin, IBM, China
12:30-12:50	Modular Design for Mandarin Text-to-Speech Synthesis [bibtex]
	Jilei Tian, Jani Nurminen, Feng Ding, Imre Kiss, Nokia, Finland
12:50-14:30	Lunch Break
Speech Synthesis 2
14:30-14:50	The Papageno TTS System [bibtex]
	Horst-Udo Hain, Jens Racky, Thomas Volk, Siemens, Germany
14:50-15:10	Ogmios: The UPC Text-to-Speech Synthesis System for Spoken Translation [bibtex]
	Antonio Bonafonte, Pablo Daniel Agüero, Jordi Adell, Javier Pérez, Asunción Moreno, UP Catalunya, Spain
15:10-15:30	The AT&T Next-Gen TTS System [bibtex]
	Mark Beutnagel, Alistair D. Conkie, Juergen Schroeter, Yannis. Stylianou, Ann K. Syrdal, AT&T, USA
15:30-15:50	Text Preprocessing for Speech Synthesis [bibtex]
	Uwe Reichel, Hartmut Pfitzinger, LMU München, Germany
15:50-16:10	Using Error-Driven Approach to Improve Automatic Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion Accuracy [bibtex]
	Tatyana Polyakova, Antonio Bonafonte, UP Catalunya, Spain
16:10-16:40	Coffee Break
Voice Conversion
16:40-17:00	Voice Conversion Based on Mapping Formants [bibtex]
	Zhi-Wei Shuang, Raimo Bakis, Yong Qin, IBM, China
17:00-17:20	A Parametric Approach for Voice Conversion [bibtex]
	Jani Nurminen, Victor Popa, Jilei Tian, Yuezhong Tang, Imre Kiss, Nokia, Finland
17:20-17:40	TC-Star: Cross-Language Voice Conversion Revisited [bibtex]
	David Suendermann, Harald Hoege, Antonio Bonafonte, Hermann Ney, Julia Hirschberg, Siemens, Germany
17:40-18:00	Voice Conversion of Non-Aligned Data Using Unit Selection [bibtex]
	Helenca Duxans, Daniel Erro, Javier Pérez, Ferran Diego, Antonio Bonafonte, Asunción Moreno, UP Catalunya, Spain