Semantics-Driven Statistical Machine Translation: Theory and Practice (S2MT)
| Workshop in conjunction with ACL 2015, Beijing, China. |
8:45 - 9:00 |
Opening Remarks |
Deyi Xiong [slides] |
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Soochow University |
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9:00 - 10:30 |
Session 1 |
Chair: Yue Zhang, Singapore University of Technology and Design |
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9:00 - 10:00 |
Keynote Speech: Semantic Parsing as, via, and for Machine Translation |
Percy Liang [slides] |
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Stanford University |
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10:00 - 10:30 |
Round trips with meaning stopovers |
Alastair Butler |
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Tohoku University |
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| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Session 2 |
| Chair: Yue Zhang, Singapore University of Technology and Design | |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Keynote Speech: Learning Multilingual Semantics from Big Data on the Web |
| Gerard de Melo [slides] | |
| Tsinghua University | |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Conceptual Annotations Preserve Structure Across Translations: A French-English Case Study |
| Elior Sulem1, Omri Abend2, Ari Rappoport3 [slides] | |
| 1The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2The University of Edinburgh, 3The Hebrew University | |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 - 15:30 | Session 3 |
| Chair: Deyi Xiong, Soochow University | |
| 13:30 - 14:30 | Keynote Speech: Sequence to Sequence Learning for Language Understanding |
| Quoc V. Le [slides] | |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Integrating Case Frame into Japanese to Chinese Hierarchical Phrase-based Translation Model |
| Jinan Xu1, Jiangming Liu2, Yufeng Chen1, Yujie Zhang1, Fang Ming1, Shaotong Li1 [slides] | |
| 1Beijing Jiaotong University, 2Singapore University of Technology and Design | |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | A Discriminative Model for Semantics-to-String Translation |
| Aleš Tamchyna1, Chris Quirk2, Michel Galley2 [slides] | |
| 1Charles University in Prague, UFAL MFF, 2Microsoft Research | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee Break |
| 16:00 - 17:45 | Session 4 |
| Chair: Deyi Xiong, Soochow University | |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Keynote Speech: Machine Translation and Deep Language Engineering Approaches |
| António Branco [slides] | |
| University of Lisbon | |
| 17:00 - 17:45 | Panel: Semantics and Statistical Machine Translation: Gaps and Challenges |
| Chris Quirk (Panel Chair)1, Eduard Hovy2 [slides], Percy Liang3, António Branco4, Quoc V. Le5 | |
| 1Microsoft, 2Carnegie Mellon University, 3Stanford University, 4University of Lisbon,5Google | |
| 17:45 | Closing |