A systematic comparison of various statistical alignment models
Computational Linguistics
The mathematics of statistical machine translation: parameter estimation
Computational Linguistics - Special issue on using large corpora: II
Stochastic inversion transduction grammars and bilingual parsing of parallel corpora
Computational Linguistics
BLEU: a method for automatic evaluation of machine translation
ACL '02 Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Statistical phrase-based translation
NAACL '03 Proceedings of the 2003 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics on Human Language Technology - Volume 1
Modelling lexical redundancy for machine translation
ACL-44 Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and the 44th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Improving statistical MT through morphological analysis
HLT '05 Proceedings of the conference on Human Language Technology and Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Moses: open source toolkit for statistical machine translation
ACL '07 Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the ACL on Interactive Poster and Demonstration Sessions
The 'noisier channel': translation from morphologically complex languages
StatMT '07 Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation
Further meta-evaluation of machine translation
StatMT '08 Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation
Performance confidence estimation for automatic summarization
EACL '09 Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Word lattices for multi-source translation
EACL '09 Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
On the importance of pivot language selection for statistical machine translation
NAACL-Short '09 Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Companion Volume: Short Papers
A quantitative analysis of reordering phenomena
StatMT '09 Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation
Conundrums in noun phrase coreference resolution: making sense of the state-of-the-art
ACL '09 Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the AFNLP: Volume 2 - Volume 2
Metrics for MT evaluation: evaluating reordering
Machine Translation
Multilingual pseudo-relevance feedback: performance study of assisting languages
ACL '10 Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Pre- and postprocessing for statistical machine translation into Germanic languages
HLT-SS '11 Proceedings of the ACL 2011 Student Session
An exponential translation model for target language morphology
HLT '11 Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies - Volume 1
A lightweight evaluation framework for machine translation reordering
WMT '11 Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation
Soft dependency constraints for reordering in hierarchical phrase-based translation
EMNLP '11 Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Prediction of learning curves in machine translation
ACL '12 Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Long Papers - Volume 1
An information-theoretic measure to evaluate parsing difficulty across treebanks
ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing (TSLP)
Evaluating indirect strategies for Chinese-Spanish statistical machine translation
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
How to Choose the Best Pivot Language for Automatic Translation of Low-Resource Languages
ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP)
Generation of compound words in statistical machine translation into compounding languages
Computational Linguistics
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The performance of machine translation systems varies greatly depending on the source and target languages involved. Determining the contribution of different characteristics of language pairs on system performance is key to knowing what aspects of machine translation to improve and which are irrelevant. This paper investigates the effect of different explanatory variables on the performance of a phrase-based system for 110 European language pairs. We show that three factors are strong predictors of performance in isolation: the amount of reordering, the morphological complexity of the target language and the historical relatedness of the two languages. Together, these factors contribute 75% to the variability of the performance of the system.