All areas related to Machine Translation & Speech Translation are relevant to this workshop. Possible topics would cover, but are not limited to:
- Speech and Text Translation
- Comparison of MT approaches
- MT models and algorithms
- Word / Phrase Alignment
- Multilingual Lexicon / Translation Rule Extraction
- Morphology and syntax based MT
- Integration of MT and ASR
- Integration of MT and TTS (Speech Synthesis and Speech-to-Speech Translation)
- Combination of MT systems
- MT of spontaneous speech
- Speech recognition for translation
- ASR for speeches, lectures and broadcast news
- Enriched transcriptions
- Voice Conversion
- Expressive Speech Synthesis
- Performance evaluation methods
- Error analysis of MT systems