W2: The International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT)

Marcello Federico, Alexander Waibel, Jiatao Gu, Kevin Knight, Will Lewis, Satoshi Nakamura, Hermann Ney, Jan Niehues, Sebastian Stüker, Marco Turchi

Live Session 1: Jul 9 (16:00-20:30 GMT)
Live Session 2: Jul 10 (00:00-01:00 GMT)
Live Session 3: Jul 10 (16:00-17:10 GMT)
The 17th International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT) is an annual scientific conference for the study, development and evaluation of spoken language translation technology: speech-to-text, speech-to-speech translation, simultaneous and consecutive translation, speech dubbing, cross-lingual communication including all multimodal, emotional, para-linguistic, and stylistic aspects and their applications in the field. The conference organizes evaluations and workshop sessions around challenge areas, and presents scientific work and system descriptions.

Time (PDT) Event Speakers
July 9, 9:00 AM-9:15 AM Foreword/Introduction Marcello Federico/Alex Waibel
July 9, 9:15 AM-10:15 AM Keynote + Q&A Klaus Welle
July 9, 10:15 AM-11:15 AM Findings of IWSLT 2020 + Q&A Sebastian Stüker et al.
July 9, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM Panel Offline Speech Translation Marco Turchi et al.
July 9, 12:30 PM-1:30 PM Panel Simultanous ST Jiatao Gu et al.
July 9, 5:00 PM-6:00 PM Panel Open Domain MT Ajay Nagesh et al.
July 10, 9:00 AM-9:10 AM Opening remarks Marcello Federico
July 10, 9:10 AM-10:10 AM Panel of experts Alex Waibel
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Recorded Livestream (July 9)

Pre-recorded Talks