2023Q3 Reports: SIGSLT

In Fall 2022, election of the SIGLST officers took placebtw Oct 17-21 which were run through the electionbuddy.com platform. All SIG members (122) were invited via email, 95 ballots were submitted. Sebastian Stüker (Secretary) and Marcello Federico (President) won with 50.00% of the vote each. In 2023, the SIGSLT organized the 20th IWSLT Conference, taking place on July 13-14 and co-located with the ACL Conference in Toronto. The Conference hosted shared tasks addressing 9 scientific challenges in spoken language translation: simultaneous and offline translation, automatic subtitling and dubbing, speech to speech translation, multilingual, dialect and low-resource speech translation, and formality control. The shared tasks attracted a total of 37 submissions by 29 teams, which sets a new record in the history of IWSLT. The increasing interest towards spoken language translation is also witnessed by constantly increasing number of organizers and contributors to the overview paper, which include both members of industry and academia. See iwslt.org for details.