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Joint conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and
the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing
 

Program – Collocated WS

Second Workshop on Technologies and Corpora for Asia-Pacific Speech Translation (TCAST 2009)

Sunday, August 2, 2009    

8:30-09:00 Registration
9:00–09:40 OPENING ADDRESS:
Asian Speech-to-Speech Translation Research Consortium
- Towards Connecting Speech Translation Systems in the Asian Region -

Satoshi Nakamura, Jun Park, Chai Wutiwiwatchai,
Hammam Riza, Karunesh Arora, Chi Mai Luong, Haizhou Li
09:40–10:00 An Overview of Korean-English Speech-to-Speech Translation System
Ilbin Lee, Jun Park, Changhyun Kim, Youngik Kim, Sanghun Kim
10:00–10:30 Coffee Break
10:30–10:50 Improvement Issues in English-Thai Speech Translation
Chai Wutiwiwatchai, Thepchai Supnithi, Peerachet Porkaew, Nattanun Thatphithakkul
10:50–11:10 Toward Asian Speech Translation: The Development of Speech and Text Corpora for Vietnamese language
Thang Tat Vu, Khanh Tang Nguyen, Le Thanh Ha, Mai Chi Luong, Satoshi Nakamura
11:10–11:30 Adapting Chinese Word Segmentation for Translation by Using a Bilingual Dictionary
Hailong Cao, Masao Utiyama and Eiichiro Sumita
11:30–11:50 NICT/ATR Asian Spoken Language Translation System for Multi-Party Travel Conversation
Sakriani Sakti, Tat Thang Vu, Andrew Finch, Michael Paul, Ranniery Maia,
Shinsuke Sakai, Teruaki Hayashi, Shigeki Matsuda, Noriyuki Kimura,
Yutaka Ashikari, Eiichiro Sumita, Satoshi Nakamura
11:50–13:50 Lunch Break
13:50–14:10 Development of HMM-based Hindi Speech Synthesis System
Sunita Arora, Rajat Mathur, Karunesh Arora, S S Agrawal
14:10–14:30 Malay Multi-word Expression Translation
Aiti Aw, Sharifah Mahani Aljunied and Haizhou Li
14:30–14:50 Development of Database for Speech Synthesizer In Hindi Language Using Festvox
Archana Balyan, S.S. Agrawal, Amita Dev
14:50–15:10 Building a Pronunciation Dictionary for Indonesian Speech Recognition System
Amalia Zahra, Sadar Baskoro, and Mirna Adriani
15:10–15:30 Advances in Speech Recognition and Translation for Bahasa Indonesia
Hammam Riza and Oskar Riandi
15:30–16:00 Coffee Break
16:00–16:20 Piramid: Bahasa Indonesia and Bahasa Malaysia Translation System
Enhanced through Comparable Corpora
Aiti Aw, Sharifah Mahani Aljunied, LianHau Lee and Haizhou Li
16:20–16:40 A Feature-rich Supervised Word Alignment Model for Phrase-based SMT
Chooi Ling Goh and Eiichiro Sumita

 

 

 
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