2008.iwslt-evaluation.16@ACL

#1 The RWTH machine translation system for IWSLT 2008. [PDF] [Copy] [Kimi¹]

Authors: David Vilar ; Daniel Stein ; Yuqi Zhang ; Evgeny Matusov ; Arne Mauser ; Oliver Bender ; Saab Mansour ; Hermann Ney

RWTH’s system for the 2008 IWSLT evaluation consists of a combination of different phrase-based and hierarchical statistical machine translation systems. We participated in the translation tasks for the Chinese-to-English and Arabic-to-English language pairs. We investigated different preprocessing techniques, reordering methods for the phrase-based system, including reordering of speech lattices, and syntax-based enhancements for the hierarchical systems. We also tried the combination of the Arabic-to-English and Chinese-to-English outputs as an additional submission.