2018 EMNLP EMNLP 2018

The JHU/KyotoU Speech Translation System for IWSLT 2018

Abstract

AbstractThis paper describes the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) and Kyoto University submissions to the Speech Translation evaluation campaign at IWSLT2018. Our end-to-end speech translation systems are based on ESPnet and implements an attention-based encoder-decoder model. As comparison, we also experiment with a pipeline system that uses independent neural network systems for both the speech transcription and text translation components. We find that a transfer learning approach that bootstraps the end-to-end speech translation system with speech transcription system’s parameters is important for training on small datasets.

🌉 Interdisciplinary Bridge — Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing and Speech & Audio
🧭 Keyword Pioneer — pipeline system
🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird — speech translation
🐝 Cross-Pollinator — Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Computer Vision, Data Science & Analytics, Deep Learning, Healthcare & Medicine, Interdisciplinary, Knowledge & Reasoning, Machine Learning, Mathematics & Optimization, Natural Language Processing, Reinforcement Learning, Robotics, Security & Privacy, Speech & Audio