ACL-ELRA-ISCA SIGSLT
Special Interest Group on Spoken Language Translation

Statement of Purpose

The purpose of the Special Interest Group on Spoken Language Translation (SIGSLT) shall be to promote interest in the research area of spoken language translation including simultaneous translation and interpretation, speech dubbing, speech-to-text translation, speech-to-speech translation, cross-lingual communication including paralinguistic, emotional or multimodal information and related areas.

SIGSLT will:

  • provide members of ACL, ELRA and ISCA with a special interest in spoken language translation and its related areas with a means of exchanging news of recent research developments and other matters of interest in spoken language translation;
  • organize challenges and evaluation campaigns;
  • sponsor and organize the International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT), meetings, satellites, and tutorial workshops in spoken language translation, operating within the framework of ACL’s, ELRA’s and ISCA’sguidelines for SIGs;
  • make available open source code and data resources, best practices and tools, and evaluation metrics relevant to spoken language translation.

Check this page to find out about all the past editions of IWSLT. 

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Steering Committee and Officers

  • Luisa Bentivogli, FBK, Italy
  • Marine Carpuat, University of Maryland, USA
  • Marcello Federico, Amazon, Spain (ACL SIGSLT, President)
  • Chi Mai Luong, IOIT, Vietnam
  • Joseph Mariani, CNRS-LISN, France
  • Evgeny Matusov, AppTek, Germany
  • Satoshi Nakamura, NAIST, Japan (ISCA SIGSLT, President)
  • Hermann Ney, RWTH, Germany
  • Jan Niehues, KIT, Germany
  • Atul Kr. Ojha, University of Galway, Ireland
  • Juan Pino, Meta, USA
  • Elizabeth Salesky, Google, USA
  • Mark Seligman, Spoken Translation Inc., USA
  • Matthias Sperber, Apple, Germany
  • Katsuhito Sudoh, NAIST, Japan
  • Sebastian Stüker, Zoom, Germany (ELRA SIGSLT, President)
  • Marco Turchi, Zoom, Italy
  • Alex Waibel, CMU, USA (Chair)
  • Shinji Watanabe, CMU, USA
  • François Yvon, CNRS, France
  • Chengqing Zong, NLPR CAS, China

Former Steering Committee Members

  • Will Lewis, University of Washington, USA
  • Marta R. Costa-jussà, Meta, Spain
  • Laurent Besacier, Naver Labs Europe, France
  • Dekai Wu, HKUST Hong Kong, China