17-18 August 2024 - Bangkok

The International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT) is an annual scientific conference, associated with an open evaluation campaign on spoken language translation, where both scientific papers and system descriptions are presented.

The 21st edition of IWSLT will be run as an ELDA/ELRA & ACL Event and co-located with ACL 2024 in Bangkok, Thailand on 17-18 August 2024. It will be run as a hybrid event.

Location

IWSLT 2024 will be held in the same location as ACL 2024, the Centara Grand & Bangkok Convention Center at CentralWorld.
See below for additional details:

Centara Grand & Bangkok Convention Centre at CentralWorld
999/99 Rama 1 Road,
Pathumwan, Bangkok 10330, Thailand
Room: Lotus Suite 1-4

Shared Tasks

The IWSLT 2024 Evaluation Campaign will host shared tasks featuring the following focus areas:

Data, metrics, and evaluation will be provided by the conference organizers.
All tasks will follow the same important dates.

Registration

Please register for the Evaluation Campaign via the registration form.

Please join the IWSLT Evaluation Campaign google group for periodic updates, community questions and opportunities to receive sponsored cloud computing credits.

Special Session: Recent Highlights in SLT

IWSLT 2024 will introduce a special session entitled “SLT Recent Highlights”. 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, see here: Special Session: Recent Highlights in SLT.

Paper Submission

Submissions should be scientific papers or evaluation campaign system description papers. All papers may consist of 4 to 8 pages of content with additional pages of references, formatted using the ACL stylesheets. Upon acceptance, all papers will be given one (1) additional content page to address reviewers’ comments. Accepted papers will be published in the ACL Anthology and will be presented at the IWSLT conference either orally or as a poster.

Please submit all papers through the IWSLT’24 submission portal.

Note:

  • Scientific papers must be anonymized for submission, while system description papers do not need to be.
  • We accept submissions which have previously been made available as technical reports or preprints, e.g. on arXiv.
  • We will not accept scientific papers for publication that overlap significantly in content or results with papers published elsewhere.
  • Scientific papers which have been, or plan to be, submitted to other venues must be declared as such at the time of submission, and must be withdrawn from the other venues if accepted and published at IWSLT 2024.
  • Scientific papers whose first author is a student will be eligible for the IWSLT 2024 Best Student Paper Award (authors should note eligibility in the paper submission form).
  • Limitations and Ethics Statement sections (see the ACL’23 call for papers for more details) are encouraged but not required. If included, they should be placed after the conclusion for submission and will not count against the page limit.

Important Dates

Timeline (Tentative)

Jan 15, 2024 Release of shared task training and dev data
Apr 1-15, 2024 Evaluation period
Apr 29, 2024 Paper submission (all papers)
June 4, 2024 Notification of acceptance
June 24, 2024 Camera ready deadline
July 22, 2024 Pre-recorded video due
August 17-18, 2024 IWSLT conference

Note: All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00.

Organizers

  • Marine Carpuat, University of Maryland, USA (Program Chair)
  • Marcello Federico, AWS AI Labs, USA (Conference Chair)
  • Alex Waibel, CMU, USA (Conference Chair)
  • Jan Niehues, KIT, Germany (Evaluation Chair)
  • Sebastian Stüker, Zoom, Germany (Sponsorship Chair)
  • Elizabeth Salesky, JHU, USA (Publication and Website Chair)
  • Atul Kr. Ojha, University of Galway, Ireland (Publicity Chair)

Sponsorship Opportunities

IWSLT welcomes sponsorships!