European language translation with weighted finite state transducers: the CUED MT system for the 2008 ACL workshop on SMT

Authors:
Graeme Blackwood;Adrià de Gispert;Jamie Brunning;William Byrne
Affiliations:
Cambridge University, Cambridge, U.K.;Cambridge University, Cambridge, U.K.;Cambridge University, Cambridge, U.K.;Cambridge University, Cambridge, U.K.
Venue:
StatMT '08 Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation
Year:
2008

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Abstract

We describe the Cambridge University Engineering Department phrase-based statistical machine translation system for Spanish-English and French-English translation in the ACL 2008 Third Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation Shared Task. The CUED system follows a generative model of translation and is implemented by composition of component models realised as Weighted Finite State Transducers, without the use of a special-purpose decoder. Details of system tuning for both Europarl and News translation tasks are provided.