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*The International Conference on Spoken Language Translation*
*ACL – 22nd IWSLT 2025 – First Call for Participation*
*31 July-1 August 2025 - Vienna, Austria*
http://iwslt.org
The International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT)
<https://iwslt.org/> is the premier annual conference for all aspects of
Spoken Language Translation. Every year, the conference organises and
sponsors open evaluation campaigns around key challenges in simultaneous
and consecutive translation, under real-time/low latency or offline
conditions and under low-resource or multilingual constraints. System
descriptions and results from participants’ systems and scientific papers
related to key algorithmic advances and best practices are presented.
IWSLT is the venue of the SIGSLTs <https://iwslt.org/sigslt/>, the Special
Interest Group on Spoken Language Translation <https://iwslt.org/sigslt/>
of ACL <https://www.aclweb.org/portal/>, ISCA <https://www.isca-speech.org/>
and ELRA <https://www.elra.info/>. With a track record of 21 years, IWSLT
benchmarks and proceedings serve as reference for all researchers and
practitioners working on speech translation and related fields.
The 22nd edition of IWSLT will be run as a hybrid ELRA
<https://www.elra.info/>/ACL <https://www.aclweb.org/portal/> event,
co-located with ACL 2025 <https://2025.aclweb.org/> from 31 July to 1
August 2025.
*Important Dates*
*January 1, 2025*: Release of shared task training and dev data
*March 15, 2025*: Scientific paper submission deadline
*Apr 1-15, 2025*: Evaluation period
*April 21, 2025*: System description paper submission deadline
*May 15, 2025*: Notification of acceptance
*June 1, 2025*: Camera-ready deadline (all paper)
*July 31-Aug 1*, *2025*: IWSLT conference
Evaluation
The IWSLT 2025 features shared tasks <https://iwslt.org/2025/#shared-tasks>
that address the following focus areas:
- High-resource ST: Offline track, Simultaneous track, Subtitling track
- Low-resource ST: Low-resource and Indic (multilingual) tracks
- Instruction-following Speech Processing track: Technical domain ST, ASR,
Summarization, and QA
Training and development data for each shared task will be prepared and
released by the respective organisers (for further information on this
initiative, please refer to the IWSLT website <https://iwslt.org/2025/>).
Participants will receive instructions about how to submit their runs. In
addition, participants have the opportunity to present their work
through a system
paper that will be published in the ACL Proceedings.
Conference
IWSLT also invites submissions of scientific papers to be published in the
ACL Proceedings and presented either in oral or poster format. The
conference selects high-quality, original contributions on theoretical and
practical issues of spoken language translation research, technologies and
applications. Submissions will be accepted directly through the IWSLT
submission site (to be announced on the website <https://iwslt.org/2025/>).
We will also accept commitments of submissions with reviews from the ACL
Rolling Review.
Additionally, to foster cross-pollination of ideas, the conference also
invites the presentation of papers on speech translation recently published
elsewhere. Please note that this is for non-archival presentation of papers
relevant to speech translation already published in other venues (e.g.,
Findings for the *ACL, speech, NLP or MT conferences). Submissions for this
category will be accepted through a dedicated form (to be announced on the
website <https://iwslt.org/2025/>). Papers will be checked for relevance to
IWSLT, and assigned either oral or poster presentation slots if selected.
Contact
Please email iwslt-evaluation-campaign(a)googlegroups.com if you have any
questions related to the shared tasks.
Thanks,
Marine, Marcello, Alex, Jan, Sebastian, Elizabeth, Atul
(IWSLT organisers)
