@inproceedings{ma-etal-2020-simulmt,
title = "{S}imul{MT} to {S}imul{ST}: Adapting Simultaneous Text Translation to End-to-End Simultaneous Speech Translation",
author = "Ma, Xutai and
Pino, Juan and
Koehn, Philipp",
editor = "Wong, Kam-Fai and
Knight, Kevin and
Wu, Hua",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 1st Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 10th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing",
month = dec,
year = "2020",
address = "Suzhou, China",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2020.aacl-main.58/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2020.aacl-main.58",
pages = "582--587",
abstract = "We investigate how to adapt simultaneous text translation methods such as wait-$k$ and monotonic multihead attention to end-to-end simultaneous speech translation by introducing a pre-decision module. A detailed analysis is provided on the latency-quality trade-offs of combining fixed and flexible pre-decision with fixed and flexible policies. We also design a novel computation-aware latency metric, adapted from Average Lagging."
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T SimulMT to SimulST: Adapting Simultaneous Text Translation to End-to-End Simultaneous Speech Translation
%A Ma, Xutai
%A Pino, Juan
%A Koehn, Philipp
%Y Wong, Kam-Fai
%Y Knight, Kevin
%Y Wu, Hua
%S Proceedings of the 1st Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 10th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing
%D 2020
%8 December
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Suzhou, China
%F ma-etal-2020-simulmt
%X We investigate how to adapt simultaneous text translation methods such as wait-k and monotonic multihead attention to end-to-end simultaneous speech translation by introducing a pre-decision module. A detailed analysis is provided on the latency-quality trade-offs of combining fixed and flexible pre-decision with fixed and flexible policies. We also design a novel computation-aware latency metric, adapted from Average Lagging.
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%U https://aclanthology.org/2020.aacl-main.58/
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2020.aacl-main.58
%P 582-587
Markdown (Informal)
[SimulMT to SimulST: Adapting Simultaneous Text Translation to End-to-End Simultaneous Speech Translation](https://aclanthology.org/2020.aacl-main.58/) (Ma et al., AACL 2020)
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