Program

Program at a Glance

Note: Zoom links are available on the ACL 2023 virtual site (after registration).
Click here for Day 1 and Day 2.

Times listed are local Toronto time, and linked to a time converter site to view alternate time zones.
The papers in each session are listed below.

Day1	July 13, 2023 - Room: Dockside 1
Time (Toronto)	Session
09:00-09:15	Welcome Remarks [Chair: Alex Waibel]
09:15-10:30	Findings of the IWSLT 2023 Evaluation Campaign [Chair: Jan Niehues]
10:30-11:00	Coffee Break (ACL organized)
11:00-11:15	Q&A
11:15-12:30	20 Years of IWSLT: Celebration and Review [Chair: Alex Waibel]
12:30-14:00	Lunch
14:00-15:30	Session 1: System Papers (Posters) [Chair: Jan Niehues]
15:30-16:00	Coffee Break (ACL organized)
16:00-17:30	Session 2: System Papers (Posters) [Chair: Ko Tom]
17:30	End of Day 1

Day2	July 14, 2023 - Room Dockside 1
Time (Toronto)	Session
09:00-10:30	Session 3: Scientific Papers (Oral) [Chair: Brian Thompson]
10:30-11:00	Coffee Break (ACL organized)
11:00-12:30	Session 4: System and Scientific Papers, incl. Findings Papers (Posters) [Chair: Elizabeth Salesky]
12:30-13:30	Lunch
13:30-14:30	Panel Discussion: Is ST Solved?
14:30-15:30	2024 Planning Meeting [Chair: Jan Niehues]
15:30-16:00	Coffee Break (ACL organized)
16:00-16:15	Best Paper Award [Chair: Satoshi Nakamura]
16:15-16:30	Closing Remarks [Chair: Alex Waibel]
16:30	End of Day 2

Proceedings

ACL Anthology: Paper pdfs, abstracts, and bibtex on the ACL Anthology.
Individual papers: Links to each paper, prerecorded video and slides are posted below. Videos tested on Chrome.

Day 1

Findings of the IWSLT 2023 Evaluation Campaign

Findings of the IWSLT 2023 Evaluation Campaign
Sweta Agrawal, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Luisa Bentivogli, Ondřej Bojar, Claudia Borg, Marine Carpuat, Roldano Cattoni, Mauro Cettolo, Mingda Chen, William Chen, Khalid Choukri, Alexandra Chronopoulou, Anna Currey, Thierry Declerck, Qianqian Dong, Kevin Duh, Yannick Estève, Marcello Federico, Souhir Gahbiche, Barry Haddow, Benjamin Hsu, Phu Mon Htut, Hirofumi Inaguma, Dávid Javorský, John Judge, Yasumasa Kano, Tom Ko, Rishu Kumar, Pengwei Li, Xutai Ma, Prashant Mathur, Evgeny Matusov, Paul McNamee, John P. McCrae, Kenton Murray, Maria Nadejde, Satoshi Nakamura, Matteo Negri, Ha Nguyen, Jan Niehues, Xing Niu, Atul Kr. Ojha, John E. Ortega, Proyag Pal, Juan Pino, Lonneke van der Plas, Peter Polák, Elijah Rippeth, Elizabeth Salesky, Jiatong Shi, Matthias Sperber, Sebastian Stüker, Katsuhito Sudoh, Yun Tang, Brian Thompson, Kevin Tran, Marco Turchi, Alex Waibel, Mingxuan Wang, Shinji Watanabe, Rodolfo Zevallos
paper Slides: Offline Simultaneous Subtitling Multilingual Speech-to-Speech Dubbing Dialect Low-resource Formality

20 Years of IWSLT

A celebration and review of where we are and where we’ve come from. Chair: Alex Waibel.

Session 1 (Posters)

Offline track

The BIGAI Offline Speech Translation Systems for IWSLT 2023 Evaluation
Authors: Zhihang Xie
paper video slides

I2R’s End-to-End Speech Translation System for IWSLT 2023 Offline Shared Task
Authors: Muhammad Huzaifah, Kye Min Tan and Richeng Duan
paper

HW-TSC at IWSLT2023: Break the Quality Ceiling of Offline Track via Pre-Training and Domain Adaptation
Authors: Zongyao Li, Zhanglin Wu, Zhiqiang Rao, Xie YuHao, Guo JiaXin, Daimeng Wei, Hengchao Shang, Wang Minghan, Xiaoyu Chen, Zhengzhe YU, Li ShaoJun, Lei LiZhi and Hao Yang
paper

The MineTrans Systems for IWSLT 2023 Offline Speech Translation and Speech-to-Speech Translation Tasks
Authors: Yichao Du, Guo Zhengsheng, Jinchuan Tian, Zhirui Zhang, Xing Wang, Jianwei Yu, Zhaopeng Tu, Tong Xu and Enhong Chen
paper video slides

The NiuTrans End-to-End Speech Translation System for IWSLT23 English-to-Chinese Offline Task
Authors: Yuchen Han, Xiaoqian Liu, Hao Chen, Yuhao Zhang, Chen Xu, Tong Xiao, and Jingbo Zhu
paper video slides

NVIDIA NeMo Offline Speech Translation Systems for IWSLT 2023
Authors: Oleksii Hrinchuk, Vladimir Bataev, Evelina Bakhturina and Boris Ginsburg
paper video slides

The Xiaomi AI Lab’s Speech Translation Systems for IWSLT 2023 Offline Task, Simultaneous Task and Speech-to-Speech Task
Authors: Wuwei Huang, Mengge Liu, Xiang Li, Yanzhi Tian, Fengyu Yang, Wen Zhang, Jian Luan, Bin Wang, Yuhang Guo and Jinsong Su
paper video slides

Speech Translation with Foundation Models and Optimal Transport: UPC at IWSLT23
Authors: Ioannis Tsiamas, Gerard I. Gállego, Jose Fonollosa and Marta R. Costa-jussá
paper video slides

Submission of USTC’s System for the IWSLT 2023 - Offline Speech Translation Track
Authors: Xinyuan Zhou, Jianwei Cui, Zhongyi Ye, Yichi Wang, Luzhen Xu, Hanyi Zhang, Weitai Zhang and Lirong Dai
paper video slides

Simultaneous track

CMU’s IWSLT 2023 Simultaneous Speech Translation System
Authors: Brian Yan, Jiatong Shi, Soumi Maiti, William Chen, Xinjian Li, Yifan Peng, Siddhant Arora and Shinji Watanabe
paper

The HW-TSC’s Simultaneous Speech-to-Text Translation System for IWSLT 2023 Evaluation
Authors: Jiaxin GUO, Daimeng Wei, Zhanglin Wu, Zongyao Li, Zhiqiang Rao, Minghan Wang, Hengchao Shang, Xiaoyu Chen, Zhengzhe Yu, Shaojun Li, Yuhao Xie, Lizhi Lei and Hao Yang
paper

The HW-TSC’s Simultaneous Speech-to-Speech Translation System for IWSLT 2023 Evaluation
Authors: Hengchao Shang, Zhiqiang Rao, Zongyao Li, Zhanglin Wu, Jiaxin GUO, Minghan Wang, Daimeng Wei, Shaojun Li, Zhengzhe YU, Xiaoyu Chen, Lizhi Lei and Hao Yang
paper

NAIST Simultaneous Speech-to-speech Translation System for IWSLT 2023
Authors: Ryo Fukuda, Yuta Nishikawa, Yasumasa Kano, Yuka Ko, Tomoya Yanagita, Kosuke Doi, Mana Makinae, Sakriani Sakti, Katsuhito Sudoh and Satoshi Nakamura
paper video

Direct Models for Simultaneous Translation and Automatic Subtitling: FBK@IWSLT2023
Authors: Sara Papi, Marco Gaido and Matteo Negri
paper

Towards Efficient Simultaneous Speech Translation: CUNI-KIT System for Simultaneous Track at IWSLT 2023
Authors: Peter Polak, Danni Liu, Ngoc-Quan Pham, Jan Niehues, Alexander Waibel and Ondřej Bojar
paper slides

Session 2 (Posters)

Multilingual track

BIT’s System for Multilingual Track
Authors: Zhipeng Wang, Yuhang Guo and Shuoying Chen
paper video

JHU IWSLT 2023 Multilingual Speech Translation System Description
Authors: Henry Li Xinyuan, Neha Verma, Bismarck Bamfo Odoom, Ujvala Pradeep, Matthew Wiesner and Sanjeev Khudanpur
paper video slides

KIT’s Multilingual Speech Translation System for IWSLT 2023
Authors: Danni Liu, Thai Binh Nguyen, Sai Koneru, Enes Yavuz Ugan, Ngoc-Quan Pham, Tuan Nam Nguyen, Tu Anh Dinh, Carlos Mullov, Alexander Waibel and Jan Niehues
paper

Speech-to-Speech track

The HW-TSC’s Speech-to-Speech Translation System for IWSLT 2023
Authors: Minghan Wang, Yinglu Li, Jiaxin GUO, Zongyao Li, Hengchao Shang, Daimeng Wei, Min Zhang, Shimin Tao, and Hao Yang
paper

The Kyoto Speech-to-Speech Translation System for IWSLT 2023
Authors: Zhengdong Yang, Shuichiro Shimizu, Wangjin Zhou, Sheng Li and Chenhui Chu
paper

The NPU-MSXF Speech-to-Speech Translation System for IWSLT 2023 Speech-to-Speech Translation Task
Authors: Kun Song, Yi Lei, Peikun Chen, Yiqing Cao, Kun Wei, Yongmao Zhang, Lei Xie, Ning Jiang and Guoqing Zhao
paper video slides

Dialectal and Low-Resource track

QUESPA Submission for the IWSLT 2023 Dialect and Low-resource Speech Translation Tasks
Authors: John E. Ortega, Rodolfo Zevallos and William Chen
paper video slides

GMU Systems for the IWSLT 2023 Dialect and Low-resource Speech Translation Tasks
Authors: Jonathan Mbuya and Antonios Anastasopoulos
paper video slides

JHU IWSLT 2023 Dialect Speech Translation System Description
Authors: Amir Hussein, Cihan Xiao, Neha Verma, Thomas Thebaud, Matthew Wiesner and Sanjeev Khudanpur
paper video slides

ON-TRAC Consortium Systems for the IWSLT 2023 Dialectal and Low-resource Speech Translation Tasks
Authors: Antoine Laurent, Souhir Gahbiche, Ha Nguyen, Haroun Elleuch, Fethi Bougares, Antoine Thiol, Hugo Riguidel, Salima Mdhaffar, Gaëlle Laperrière, Lucas Maison, Sameer Khurana and Yannick Estève
paper

The USTC’s Dialect Speech Translation System for IWSLT 2023
Authors: Pan Deng, Shihao Chen, Weitai Zhang, Jie Zhang and Lirong Dai
paper video slides

Improving Low Resource Speech Translation with Data Augmentation and Ensemble Strategies
Authors: Akshaya Vishnu Kudlu Shanbhogue, Ran Xue, Soumya Saha, Daniel Zhang and Ashwinkumar Ganesan
paper video slides

BUT Systems for IWSLT 2023 Marathi-Hindi Low Resource Speech Translation Task
Authors: Santosh Kesiraju, Karel Beneš, Maksim Tikhonov and Jan Černocký
paper

NAVER LABS Europe’s Multilingual Speech Translation Systems for the IWSLT 2023 Low-Resource Track
Authors: Edward Gow-Smith, Alexandre Berard, Marcely Zanon Boito and Ioan Calapodescu
paper video slides

UM-DFKI Maltese Speech Translation
Authors: Aiden Williams, Kurt Abela, Rishu Kumar, Martin Bär, Hannah Billinghurst, Kurt Micallef, Ahnaf Mozib Samin, Andrea DeMarco, Lonneke van der Plas and Claudia Borg
paper video

SRI-B’s Systems for IWSLT 2023 Dialectal and Low-resource Track: Marathi-Hindi Speech Translation
Authors: Balaji Radhakrishnan, Saurabh Agrawal, Raj Prakash Gohil, Kiran Praveen, Advait Vinay Dhopeshwarkar and Abhishek Pandey
paper video slides

Day 2

Session 3 (Oral)

Scientific Papers

Evaluating Multilingual Speech Translation under Realistic Conditions with Resegmentation and Terminology
Authors: Elizabeth Salesky, Kareem Darwish, Mohamed Al-Badrashiny, Mona Diab and Jan Niehues
paper slides

MT Metrics Correlate with Human Ratings of Simultaneous Speech Translation
Authors: Dominik Macháček, Ondřej Bojar and Raj Dabre
paper slides

Tagged End-to-End Simultaneous Speech Translation Training Using Simultaneous Interpretation Data
Authors: Yuka Ko, Ryo Fukuda, Yuta Nishikawa, Yasumasa Kano, Katsuhito Sudoh and Satoshi Nakamura
paper video

Improving End-to-End Speech Translation by Imitation-Based Knowledge Distillation with Synthetic Transcripts
Authors: Rebekka Hubert, Artem Sokolov and Stefan Riezler
paper video slides

Enhancing Video Translation Context with Object Labels
Authors: Jeremy Gwinnup, Tim Anderson, Brian Ore, Eric Hansen and Kevin Duh
paper video slides

Augmentation Invariant Discrete Representation for Generative Spoken Language Modeling
Authors: Itai Gat, Felix Kreuk, Tu Anh Nguyen, Ann Lee, Jade Copet, Gabriel Synnaeve, Emmanuel Dupoux and Yossi Adi
paper

Session 4 (Posters)

Topics in Neural MT

DePA: Improving Non-autoregressive Translation with Dependency-Aware Decoder
Authors: Jiaao Zhan, Qian Chen, Boxing Chen, Wen Wang, Yu Bai and Yang Gao
paper

On the Copying Problem of Unsupervised NMT: A Training Schedule with a Language Discriminator Loss
Authors: Yihong Liu, Alexandra Chronopoulou, Hinrich Schütze and Alexander Fraser
paper video slides

Learning Nearest Neighbour Informed Latent Word Embeddings to Improve Zero-Shot Machine Translation
Authors: Nishant Kambhatla, Logan Born and Anoop Sarkar
paper video slides

Language Model Based Target Token Importance Rescaling for Simultaneous Neural Machine Translation
Authors: Aditi Jain, Nishant Kambhatla and Anoop Sarkar
paper video slides

ACL Findings papers

MTCue: Learning Zero-Shot Control of Extra-Textual Attributes by Leveraging Unstructured Context in Neural Machine Translation
Authors: Sebastian Vincent, Robert Flynn and Carolina Scarton
paper

Robustness of Multi-Source MT to Transcription Errors
Authors: Dominik Macháček, Peter Polák, Ondřej Bojar, Raj Dabre
paper

Duplex Diffusion Models Improve Speech-to-Speech Translation
Authors: Xianchao Wu
paper

Towards Speech Dialogue Translation Mediating Speakers of Different Languages
Authors: Shuichiro Shimizu, Chenhui Chu, Sheng Li and Sadao Kurohashi
paper

Joint Speech Transcription and Translation: Pseudo-Labeling with Out-of-Distribution Data
Authors: Mozhdeh Gheini, Tatiana Likhomanenko, Matthias Sperber and Hendra Setiawan
paper

Formality, Subtitling, Dubbing tracks

Improving Formality-Sensitive Machine Translation Using Data-Centric Approaches and Prompt Engineering
Authors: Seungjun Lee, Hyeonseok Moon, Chanjun Park and Heuiseok Lim
paper video slides

Low-Resource Formality Controlled NMT Using Pre-trained LM
Authors: Priyesh Vakharia, Shree Vignesh S and Pranjali Basmatkar
paper video slides

Improving Neural Machine Translation Formality Control with Domain Adaptation and Reranking-based Transductive Learning
Authors: Zhanglin Wu, Zongyao Li, Daimeng Wei, Hengchao Shang, Jiaxin Guo, Xiaoyu Chen, Zhiqiang Rao, Zhengzhe YU, Jinlong Yang, Shaojun Li, Yuhao Xie, Bin Wei, Jiawei Zheng, Ming Zhu, Lizhi Lei, Hao Yang and Yanfei Jiang
paper video slides

Speech Translation with Style: AppTek’s Submissions to the IWSLT Subtitling and Formality Tracks in 2023
Authors: Parnia Bahar, Patrick Wilken, Javier Iranzo-Sánchez, Mattia Di Gangi, Evgeny Matusov and Zoltán Tüske
paper video slides

Matesub: The Translated Subtitling Tool at the IWSLT2023 Subtitling Task
Authors: Simone Perone
paper

Length-Aware NMT and Adaptive Duration for Automatic Dubbing
Authors: Zhiqiang Rao, Hengchao Shang, Jinlong Yang, Daimeng Wei, Zongyao Li, Jiaxin GUO, Shaojun Li, Zhengzhe Yu, Zhanglin Wu, Yuhao Xie, Bin Wei, Jiawei Zheng, Lizhi Lei and Hao Yang
paper

Panel Discussion

Is speech translation solved? What are the big issues and challenges still to be addressed?
Bring your opinions and join us for a discussion.
Chair: Alex Waibel.

2024 Planning Meeting

This is an opportunity for organizers and participants to meet and discuss plans for future shared tasks and next year’s conference.
Chair: Jan Niehues.