08:30 – 09:00

Registration

09:00 – 09:30

Welcome Talk
Marcello Federico (ITC-irst, Italy)
Ralf Schlüter (RWTH, Germany)

09:30 – 11:00

Session 1: MT Core Technology
Chair: Ismael García Varea

09:30

MaTrEx: Machine Translation Using Examples
Declan Groves (Dublin C.U., Ireland)

10:00

TheINESC-ID Phrase-based Statistical Translation System
Diamantino Caseiro (INESC-ID, Portugal)

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee Break

11:00 – 13:00

Session 2: MT Core Technology
Chair: Young-Suk Lee

11:00

A Reordering Framework for Statistical Machine Translation
Josep M. Crego (UPC, Spain)

11:30

Improving Phrase-based SMT through Combination of Word Alignments
Boxing Chen (ITC-irst, Italy)

12:00

The CASIA SMT phrase-based system
Wei Wei (CASIA China)

12:30

Thot: New features to deal with larger corpora and longer sentence
Ismael García Varea (UCLM, Spain)

13:15 – 14:30

Lunch

14:30 – 16:00

Session 3: System Combination and Post-Processing
Chair: Ralf Schlüter

14:30

Comparison of System Combination Methods for ASR
Björn Hoffmeister (RWTH, Germany)

15:00

Improving SMT by using multiple translation hypotheses
Sasa Hasan (RWTH, Germany)

15:30

Improving the ISL system by using results from commercial systems
Muntsin Kolss (UKA, Germany)

16:00 – 16:30

Coffee Break

16:30

Morpho-syntactic Information for Automatic Error Analysis of SMT Output
Maja Popovic (RWTH,Germany)

17:00

Closing

09:00 – 10:30

Invited Talk and Discussion
Application of Syntax to Statistical MT
Dekai Wu (Honk Kong University of Science and Technology)

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee Break

11:00 – 13:00

Session 4: Morphology and Syntax in MT
Chair: Dekai Wu

11:00

Improving Word Alignment and Translation Quality using Morpho-syntactic Information
Maja Popovic (RWTH, Germany)

11:30

Improving Word Alignment Training through Morpho-syntactic Anaysis
Deepa Gupta (ITC-irst, Italy)

12:00

Incorporating Morpho-Syntactic Information into Word Alignment and Translation Experiments
Adrià de Gispert (UPC, Spain)

12:30

Morpho-Syntax in Statistical Machine Translation
Young-Suk Lee (IBM, USA)

13:15 – 14:30

Lunch

14:30 – 15:30

OpenLab Discussion Panel
Moderator: M. Federico
Panelists: B. Byrne, R. Schlüter, Y.S. Lee, D. Wu, I. G. Varea .

16:00 – 16:30

Coffee Break

16:30

Closing

17:30- 20:00

Social Event

17:30

Guided tour in historical Trento (leaving from Hotel Accademia)

18:45

Reception at Palazzo Roccabruna (wine and food tasting)

09:00 – 10:30

Invited Talk and Discussion
Integration of ASR and MT
Bill Byrne (U. Cambridge, UK/Johns Hopkins University, USA)

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:30

Session 5: Integration of ASR and MT
Chair: Bill Byrne

11:00

A New Spoken Language Translation Decoder Based on Confusion Networks
Nicola Bertoldi (ITC-irst, Italy)

11:30

The MITLL/AFRL TC-Star System: Experiments with Large Vocabulary Speech Translation
Wade Shen (MTT-LL, USA)

12:00

The 2006 LIMSI translation system for TC-STAR
Daniel Déchelotte(LIMSI-CNRS, France)

12:30 – 13:00

Closing Remarks

13:15 – 14:30

Lunch

14:30

End of OpenLab