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2007 TC-STAR Third Evaluation Campaign

TC-STAR Evaluation Workshops

1st Evaluation Workshop 2005 TC-STAR Workshop in Trento

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WEDNESDAY, March 28 Automatic Speech Recognition
WP4 + WP2 - Evaluation in ASR
09:00	Welcome
	Gianni Lazzari, ITC-irst, Italy
09:10	Logistics
	Hermann Ney, RWTH Aachen, Germany
09:20	Overview of Evaluation Campaign 2007 (WP4)
	Djamel Mostefa, ELDA, France
10:00	Overview of ASR Campaign 2007 (WP2)
	Jean-Luc Gauvain, LIMSI-CNRS, France
10:40	Coffee Break
11:10	LIUM Transcription system, TC-STAR’07 evaluation
	Yannick Estève, Sylvain Meignier, Paul Deléglise, Julie Mauclair, LIUM, Université du Maine, France
11:40	UPC Barcelona

12:05	Validation of language resources in TC-STAR
	Henk Van den Heuvel, Eric Sanders, SPEX, The Netherlands
12:35	Lunch Break
14:05	The LIMSI 2007 TC-STAR Transcription Systems
	Lori Lamel, Jean-Luc Gauvain, Gilles Adda, Xavier Anguera, Claude Barras, Eric Bilinski, Olivier Galibert, Tangui Hallard, Jun Luo, Holger Schwenk, Xuan Zhu, LIMSI-CNRS, France
14:40	TC-STAR STAR Spring 2007 ASR Evaluation
	Sebastian Stüker, Yik-Cheung Tam, Christian Fügen, Florian Kraft, Matthias Wölfel, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Germany
15:10	The IBM 2007 Speech Transcription System for European Parliamentary Speeches (ppt format)
	Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Martin Westphal, Alvaro Soneiro, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center and EMEA Voice Technology, USA Abhinav Sethy, Olivier Siohan,University of Southern California, ** Google, Inc., USA
15:45	Coffee Break
16:15	ITC-irst WP2 Activities
	Fabio Brugnara, Daniele Falavigna, Diego Giuliani, Roberto Gretter, Dino Seppi, Fondazione Bruno Kessler ex ITC-irst - Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica, Italy
16:45	RWTH, Aachen
THURSDAY, March 29 Spoken Language Translation
WP4 + WP1 + WP5 - Evaluation and SLT, and Architecture & Showcases
09:00	Overview of SLT Campaign 2007 (WP1)
	Hermann Ney, RWTH Aachen, Germany
09:40	The 2007 LIMSI Translation System for TC-STAR
	G. Adda A. Allauzen D. Déchelotte J.-L. Gauvain H. Maynard H. Schwenk, LIMSI-CNRS, France
10:10	ITC-irst’s SLT Systems for the TC-STAR 2007 Evaluation Campaign
	N. Bertoldi, M. Cettolo, B. Chen, R. Cattoni, D. Gupta, M. Federico, Fondazione Bruno Kessler ex ITC-irst - Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica, Italy
10:40	Coffee Break
11:10	The RWTH Machine Translation System
	Saša Hasan, Evgeny Matusov, Arne Mauser, Hermann Ney, Maja Popovic, David Vilar, Jia Xu, Yuqi Zhang, Richard Zens , Computer Science Department, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
11:40	The ISL Systems for the 3rd TC-STAR SLT Evaluation
	Matthias Paulik, Muntsin Kolss, Ashish Venugopal, Andreas Zollmann, Bing Zhao, Jan Niehues, Kay Rottmann, Silja A. Hildebrand and Stephan Vogel, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Germany
12:10	JHU Spanish-English Translation System TCSTAR 2007
	Lambert Mathias, Dr. Bill Byrne, Center for Language and Speech Processing Johns Hopkins University, USA
12:30	Lunch Break
14:00	UPC's SYSTEM DESCRIPTION
	José B. Mariño, Rafael E. Banchs, José A. R. Fonollosa,Josep M. Crego, Adrià de Gispert, Patrik Lambert, Marta R. Costa-jussà, Maxim Khalilov., UPC, Spain
14:25	IBM Spanish-to-English Translation System
	Ahmad Emami, Abraham Ittycheriah, Young-Suk Lee, Salim Roukos, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
14:50	The NiCT-ATR Machine Translation System for TC-STAR 2007 Evaluation
	Etienne Denoual, Keiji Yasuda, Ruiqiang Zhang, Hirofumi Yamamoto, Michael Paul, Hideo Okuma, Daichi Mochihashi, Andrew Finch and Eiichiro Sumita, ATR-NICT, Japan
15:15	ICT Systems for the 2007 TCSTAR Run #3 SLT Evaluation
	Deyi Xiong, Yang Liu, Zhongjun He, Hongxu Hou, Weihua Luo, Lei Fu, Haitao Mi, Jin Huang, Yun Huang, Yajuan Lu, Qun Liu, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
	The XMU Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation System for 2007 TC-STAR Run #3 SLT Evaluation
	Yidong Yidong Chen, Xiaodong Shi, Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Xiamen University, China
15:35	Coffee Break
16:05	Overview of WP5: Architecture and Showcases (Bhuvana Ramabhadran)
	Martin Fanta Martin Fanta, Pascal Pascal Fleury Fleury, Jan Jan Kleindienst,Tomas Kleindienst,Tomas Macek
FRIDAY, March 30 Text to Speech
WP4 + WP2 - Evaluation and TTS
9:00	Overview of TTS Campaign 2007 (WP3)
	Antonio Bonafonte, UPC, Spain
	Ogmios in the 2007 Evaluation Campaign
	A. Bonafonte, A. Moreno, J. Adell, P. Agüero, D. Erro, J. Pérez, I. Esquerra, T. Polyakova, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain
9:40	The 2007 TC-STAR Evaluation of the IBM Expressive Text-to-Speech Synthesis System
	Raul Fernandez, Michael Picheny, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA
	Voice Conversion Based on Mapping Formants
	Zhiwei Shuang, Yong Qin IBM China Research Lab, Raimo Bakis, Raul Fernandez, IBM US Yorktown Research Lab Slava Shechtman IBM Hafia Research Lab
10:40	Coffee Break
11:10	The Siemens TTS System for UK English and Voice Conversion
	Horst-Udo Hain, Jens Racky, Thomas Volk, Harald Höge, Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, Germany, David Sündermann, SpeechCycle, Inc., USA
	Text-Independent Cross-Language Voice Conversion for Speech-to-Speech Translation
	David Sündermann, SpeechCycle, Inc., USA Harald Höge, Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, Germany
11:40	Mandarin Text-To-Speech System
	Jilei Tian, Jani Nurminen, Imre Kiss, Interaction Core Technology Center Nokia Research Center, Finland
12:10	WP5: Automatic End-to to-End Evaluation results
	Olivier Hamon, ELDA, France
12:40	Lunch Break
14:10	CAS Beijing

14:30	Integrated Voice Building and Speech-Engine
	Christian Weiss, Luis C. Oliveira, Sergio Paulo INESC-ID, L2F, Portugal
14:50	Verbio TTS Engine
	H.Castells, G.Vila and J.Padrell R&D Verbio Technologies Department, Spain