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title = "The {RWTH} machine translation system for {IWSLT} 2008.",
author = "Vilar, David and
Stein, Daniel and
Zhang, Yuqi and
Matusov, Evgeny and
Mauser, Arne and
Bender, Oliver and
Mansour, Saab and
Ney, Hermann",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign",
month = oct # " 20-21",
year = "2008",
address = "Waikiki, Hawaii",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2008.iwslt-evaluation.16",
pages = "108--115",
abstract = "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.",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T The RWTH machine translation system for IWSLT 2008.
%A Vilar, David
%A Stein, Daniel
%A Zhang, Yuqi
%A Matusov, Evgeny
%A Mauser, Arne
%A Bender, Oliver
%A Mansour, Saab
%A Ney, Hermann
%S Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign
%D 2008
%8 oct 20 21
%C Waikiki, Hawaii
%F vilar-etal-2008-rwth
%X 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.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2008.iwslt-evaluation.16
%P 108-115
Markdown (Informal)
[The RWTH machine translation system for IWSLT 2008.](https://aclanthology.org/2008.iwslt-evaluation.16) (Vilar et al., IWSLT 2008)
ACL
- David Vilar, Daniel Stein, Yuqi Zhang, Evgeny Matusov, Arne Mauser, Oliver Bender, Saab Mansour, and Hermann Ney. 2008. The RWTH machine translation system for IWSLT 2008.. In Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign, pages 108–115, Waikiki, Hawaii.