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Evaluation Campaign

Registration and E-Mail List

 

In order to be able to participate in the evaluation please register here.

If you plan to participate in the evaluation campaign, please register to this e-mail list, in order to receive up-to-date information about developments in the campaign.

Permissible Training Data

Training of MT systems and language models for ASR is constrained to data supplied by the organizers or listed below. As for ASR acoustic modeling no training data are distributed. For German, participants are allowed to use any publicly available data recorded before July 17th 2012. For English the data has to be recorded before December 31st 2010.

Tracks

The IWSLT 2013 Evaluation Campaign will focus on the translation of TED Talks, a collection of public speeches on a variety of topics. The evaluation campaign will include the following tracks:

ASR track: automatic transcription of talks from audio to text
  • Languages: English and German
  • Input format: unsegmented SPHERE
  • Output format: CTM, no case, no punctuation, UTF8
  • English development data: dev2010, tst2010 and dev2012 Note: for the ASR track, only an uem file similar to dev2010.uem and dev2012.uem will be provided, i.e. without sentence segmentation! Therefore, automatic segmentation of the data is mandatory!
  • German development data: dev2012 Note: for the ASR track, only an uem file similar to dev2012.de-en.de.uem will be provided, i.e. without sentence segmentation! Therefore, automatic segmentation of the data is mandatory!
  • Evaluation Data:

                 
SLT track: speech translation of talks from audio (or ASR output) to text     


MT track: text translation of talks for two language pairs plus eleven optional language pairs:                           
  • Input format: NIST XML format, true case with punctuation
  • Output format: NIST XML format, true case with punctuation
  • Directions:
    • Official:  English -> French, German -> English, English -> German
    • Optional:    English <-> Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese (B), Italian, Chinese, Polish, Persian, Slovenian, Turkish, Dutch, Romanian, Russian
  • Training and development data
  • Evaluation Data

Evaluation methods:

  • ASR track: word or character error rate
  • SLT/MT: BLEU, NIST, METEOR, TER (all directions)

Training of MT systems and language models for ASR is constrained to data supplied by the organizers. Supplied training, development, and test data will be available under the workshop’s webpage.

 

Data Permissible for MT model and ASR Language Model Training

Provided Data

Other Permissible Data

Parallel:

Monolingual:

 

LDC (German)

Miscellaneous:


Important Dates:

Workshop

  • February 2013: Call for Participation
  • Sept-Nov 2013: Early, late registration
  • Dec 5-6, 2013: Workshop

Scientific Papers

  • Sept 29, 2013: Paper Submission due
  • November 12, 2013: Review Feedback
  • November 18, 2013: Camera-ready paper due

Evaluation Campaign

  • June 8, 2013: Release of TRAIN and DEV data
  • Sep 2-8, 2013: Dry run ASR track
  • Sep 9-15, 2013: Test period ASR track
  • Sep 23-29, 2013: Test period SLT track (official directions)
  • Oct 7-13, 2013: Test period MT track (official directions)
  • Oct 7-20, 2013: Test period MT/SLT track (optional directions)
  • Nov 3, 2013: System description paper due
  • Nov 19, 2013: Review feedback
  • Nov 25, 2013: Camera-ready paper due

Contact, Evaluation Chair

 

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