The University of Washington machine translation system for ACL WMT 2008

Authors:
Amittai Axelrod;Mei Yang;Kevin Duh;Katrin Kirchhoff
Affiliations:
University of Washington, Seattle, WA;University of Washington, Seattle, WA;University of Washington, Seattle, WA;University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Venue:
StatMT '08 Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation
Year:
2008

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Abstract

This paper present the University of Washington's submission to the 2008 ACL SMT shared machine translation task. Two systems, for English-to-Spanish and German-to-Spanish translation are described. Our main focus was on testing a novel boosting framework for N-best list reranking and on handling German morphology in the German-to-Spanish system. While boosted N-best list reranking did not yield any improvements for this task, simplifying German morphology as part of the preprocessing step did result in significant gains.