We would like to invite participation in the second edition of Formality Control for Spoken Language Translation https://iwslt.org/2023/formality organized at IWSLT 2023 https://iwslt.org/2023/. This special task invites participants to advance research on controlling formality in machine translation for a diverse set of languages, focusing on zero-shot transfer across languages.
Important links:
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Formality task webpage: https://iwslt.org/2023/formality -
Data and metric: https://github.com/amazon-science/contrastive-controlled-mt/tree/main/IWSLT2...
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Google Group: https://groups.google.com/g/iwslt-evaluation-campaign -
IWSLT conference webpage: https://iwslt.org/2023/
HOW TO PARTICIPATE
Please join the IWSLT Evaluation Campaign Google Group https://groups.google.com/g/iwslt-evaluation-campaign and access the registration using the following link https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSewDMutBgat38bIvgNwiHBWrJ6NJ7T33XICslfJLzFkRj_mgg/viewform .
We have released a formality-annotated training dataset here: https://github.com/amazon-research/contrastive-controlled-mt. Allowable generic training data is listed on the task website https://iwslt.org/2023/formality#conditions. Task submissions will be made on a dedicated GitHub repository. More information will be added here https://iwslt.org/2023/formality#submission at a later date.
More resources: We will be releasing a trained multilingual classifier for both evaluation and analysis purposes.
IMPORTANT DATES
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Jan 14, 2023 Release of shared task training and dev data https://github.com/amazon-science/contrastive-controlled-mt/tree/main/IWSLT2023 -
Apr 1-15, 2023 Evaluation period -
Apr 24, 2023 Paper submission deadline (all papers) -
Apr 30, 2023 System papers update deadline -
May 22, 2023 Notification of acceptance -
May 31, 2023 Camera-ready paper due -
July 12, 2023 Pre-recorded video due -
July 13-14, 2023 IWSLT conference
LANGUAGE PAIRS
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English → Korean -
English → Vietnamese -
Zero-shot languages (no training data released): -
English → Portuguese -
English → Russian
You may participate in any subset of the language pairs.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Sweta Agrawal (UMD)
Marine Carpuat (UMD)
Elijah Rippeth (UMD)
Anna Currey (AWS AI Labs)
Benjamin Hsu (AWS AI Labs)
Phu Mon Htut (AWS AI Labs)
Maria Nadejde (AWS AI Labs)
Xing Niu (AWS AI Labs)