The MIT-LL/AFRL IWSLT-2009 MT system

Wade Shen, Brian Delaney, A. Ryan Aminzadeh, Tim Anderson, Ray Slyh


Abstract
This paper describes the MIT-LL/AFRL statistical MT system and the improvements that were developed during the IWSLT 2009 evaluation campaign. As part of these efforts, we experimented with a number of extensions to the standard phrase-based model that improve performance on the Arabic and Turkish to English translation tasks. We discuss the architecture of the MIT-LL/AFRL MT system, improvements over our 2008 system, and experiments we ran during the IWSLT-2009 evaluation. Specifically, we focus on 1) Cross-domain translation using MAP adaptation and unsupervised training, 2) Turkish morphological processing and translation, 3) improved Arabic morphology for MT preprocessing, and 4) system combination methods for machine translation.
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2009.iwslt-evaluation.11
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Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign
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December 1-2
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2009
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Tokyo, Japan
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IWSLT
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SIGSLT
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71–78
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https://aclanthology.org/2009.iwslt-evaluation.11
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Wade Shen, Brian Delaney, A. Ryan Aminzadeh, Tim Anderson, and Ray Slyh. 2009. The MIT-LL/AFRL IWSLT-2009 MT system. In Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign, pages 71–78, Tokyo, Japan.
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