no code implementations • EACL 2021 • Ond{\v{r}}ej Bojar, Dominik Mach{\'a}{\v{c}}ek, Sangeet Sagar, Otakar Smr{\v{z}}, Jon{\'a}{\v{s}} Kratochv{\'\i}l, Peter Pol{\'a}k, Ebrahim Ansari, Mohammad Mahmoudi, Rishu Kumar, Dario Franceschini, Chiara Canton, Ivan Simonini, Thai-Son Nguyen, Felix Schneider, Sebastian St{\"u}ker, Alex Waibel, Barry Haddow, Rico Sennrich, Philip Williams
This paper presents an automatic speech translation system aimed at live subtitling of conference presentations.
no code implementations • WS 2020 • Ebrahim Ansari, Amittai Axelrod, Nguyen Bach, Ond{\v{r}}ej Bojar, Roldano Cattoni, Fahim Dalvi, Nadir Durrani, Marcello Federico, Christian Federmann, Jiatao Gu, Fei Huang, Kevin Knight, Xutai Ma, Ajay Nagesh, Matteo Negri, Jan Niehues, Juan Pino, Elizabeth Salesky, Xing Shi, Sebastian St{\"u}ker, Marco Turchi, Alex Waibel, er, Changhan Wang
The evaluation campaign of the International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2020) featured this year six challenge tracks: (i) Simultaneous speech translation, (ii) Video speech translation, (iii) Offline speech translation, (iv) Conversational speech translation, (v) Open domain translation, and (vi) Non-native speech translation.
no code implementations • WS 2020 • Ngoc-Quan Pham, Felix Schneider, Tuan-Nam Nguyen, Thanh-Le Ha, Thai Son Nguyen, Maximilian Awiszus, Sebastian St{\"u}ker, Alex Waibel, er
This paper describes KIT{'}s submissions to the IWSLT2020 Speech Translation evaluation campaign.
no code implementations • LREC 2020 • Dario Franceschini, Chiara Canton, Ivan Simonini, Armin Schweinfurth, Adelheid Glott, Sebastian St{\"u}ker, Thai-Son Nguyen, Felix Schneider, Thanh-Le Ha, Alex Waibel, Barry Haddow, Philip Williams, Rico Sennrich, Ond{\v{r}}ej Bojar, Sangeet Sagar, Dominik Mach{\'a}{\v{c}}ek, Otakar Smr{\v{z}}
This paper presents our progress towards deploying a versatile communication platform in the task of highly multilingual live speech translation for conferences and remote meetings live subtitling.
no code implementations • LREC 2020 • Juan Hussain, Oussama Zenkri, Sebastian St{\"u}ker, Alex Waibel
Collecting domain-specific data for under-resourced languages, e. g., dialects of languages, can be very expensive, potentially financially prohibitive and taking long time.
no code implementations • COLING 2018 • Florian Dessloch, Thanh-Le Ha, Markus M{\"u}ller, Jan Niehues, Thai-Son Nguyen, Ngoc-Quan Pham, Elizabeth Salesky, Matthias Sperber, Sebastian St{\"u}ker, Thomas Zenkel, Alex Waibel, er
{\%} Combining these techniques, we are able to provide an adapted speech translation system for several European languages.
no code implementations • COLING 2016 • Matthias Sperber, Graham Neubig, Jan Niehues, Sebastian St{\"u}ker, Alex Waibel
Evaluating the quality of output from language processing systems such as machine translation or speech recognition is an essential step in ensuring that they are sufficient for practical use.
no code implementations • NAACL 2016 • Markus M{\"u}ller, Thai Son Nguyen, Jan Niehues, Eunah Cho, Bastian Kr{\"u}ger, Thanh-Le Ha, Kevin Kilgour, Matthias Sperber, Mohammed Mediani, Sebastian St{\"u}ker, Alex Waibel
no code implementations • LREC 2016 • Markus M{\"u}ller, Sarah F{\"u}nfer, Sebastian St{\"u}ker, Alex Waibel
One obstacle to achieving this goal is that lectures at KIT are usually held in German which many foreign students are not sufficiently proficient in, as, e. g., opposed to English.
no code implementations • LREC 2014 • Kay Berkling, Johanna Fay, Masood Ghayoomi, Katrin Hein, R{\'e}mi Lavalley, Ludwig Linhuber, Sebastian St{\"u}ker
In order to do a detailed manual annotation of the categories of the spelling errors committed by the students we developed a tool specifically tailored to the task.
no code implementations • LREC 2014 • Eunah Cho, Sarah F{\"u}nfer, Sebastian St{\"u}ker, Alex Waibel
With the increasing number of applications handling spontaneous speech, the needs to process spoken languages become stronger.
no code implementations • LREC 2012 • Sebastian St{\"u}ker, Florian Kraft, Christian Mohr, Teresa Herrmann, Eunah Cho, Alex Waibel
Academic lectures offer valuable content, but often do not reach their full potential audience due to the language barrier.
no code implementations • LREC 2012 • Marcello Federico, Sebastian St{\"u}ker, Luisa Bentivogli, Michael Paul, Mauro Cettolo, Teresa Herrmann, Jan Niehues, Giovanni Moretti
We report here on the eighth evaluation campaign organized in 2011 by the IWSLT workshop series.