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*The International Conference on Spoken Language Translation*

*21st IWSLT 2024 – **third** Call for Participation*

*August 17-18, 2024 – Bangkok, Thailand*

*http://iwslt.org http://iwslt.org/*

The International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT) is the premier annual conference for all aspects of Spoken Language Translation. Every year, the conference organizes 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, the Special Interest Group on Spoken Language Translation of ACL, ISCA and ELRA. With a track record of 20 years, IWSLT benchmarks and proceedings serve as reference for all researchers and practitioners working on speech translation and related fields.

The 21st edition of IWSLT https://iwslt.org/2024/ will be run as an *ELRA/ACL* event and co-located with ACL 2024 https://2024.aclweb.org/ on August 17-18, 2024. It will be run as a hybrid event.

Important Dates

January 15, 2024: Release of shared task training and dev data

April 01-15, 2024: Evaluation period

April 29, 2024: Paper submission due (all papers)

June 4, 2024: Notification of acceptance

June 24, 2024: Camera-ready paper due

July 22, 2024: Pre-recorded video due

August 17-18, 2024: Conference

Evaluation

The IWSLT 2024 features shared tasks https://iwslt.org/2024/#shared-tasks that address the following focus areas:

- Speech-to-speech track

- Simultaneous track

- Subtitling track

- Offline track

- Dubbing track

- Low-resource track

- Indic track

*Registration https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdGhCusmyPVmBz36EB8ABUFignw7nZCoKxNJRzO4hgjqgRY5w/viewform for the evaluation* is now open and training and development data for each shared task are available through the website. The results of all tasks will be collected and discussed in an overview paper that will be presented at the conference. 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. For further information on this initiative, please refer to the website https://iwslt.org/2024/#paper-submission

*Special Session: Recent Highlights in SLT*

IWSLT 2024 will introduce a special session entitled “SLT Recent Highlights https://iwslt.org/2024/special-session”. The session intends to provide an overview of recent highlights from the field across venues, with a series of short presentations focused reviews on recent developments and new/emerging trends. Additionally, a short and lively discussion may follow the presentations. We believe this initiative will contribute to a better understanding of the current landscape of SLT research and foster collaboration and exchange of ideas within the IWSLT community. For more information on this initiative, please refer to the website https://iwslt.org/2024/special-session

Contact

Please send an email to iwslt-evaluation-campaign@googlegroups.com if you have any questions related to the shared tasks.

Thanks, Marine, Marcello, Alex, Jan, Sebastian, Elizabeth, Atul (IWSLT organisers)