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title = "The {MIT}-{LL}/{AFRL} {IWSLT}-2008 {MT} system.",
author = "Shen, Wade and
Delaney, Brian and
Anderson, Tim and
Slyh, Ray",
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.10",
pages = "69--76",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T The MIT-LL/AFRL IWSLT-2008 MT system.
%A Shen, Wade
%A Delaney, Brian
%A Anderson, Tim
%A Slyh, Ray
%S Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign
%D 2008
%8 oct 20 21
%C Waikiki, Hawaii
%F shen-etal-2008-mit
%X This paper describes the MIT-LL/AFRL statistical MT system and the improvements that were developed during the IWSLT 2008 evaluation campaign. As part of these efforts, we experimented with a number of extensions to the standard phrase-based model that improve performance for both text and speech-based translation on Chinese and Arabic translation tasks. We discuss the architecture of the MIT-LL/AFRL MT system, improvements over our 2007 system, and experiments we ran during the IWSLT-2008 evaluation. Specifically, we focus on 1) novel segmentation models for phrase-based MT, 2) improved lattice and confusion network decoding of speech input, 3) improved Arabic morphology for MT preprocessing, and 4) system combination methods for machine translation.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2008.iwslt-evaluation.10
%P 69-76
Markdown (Informal)
[The MIT-LL/AFRL IWSLT-2008 MT system.](https://aclanthology.org/2008.iwslt-evaluation.10) (Shen et al., IWSLT 2008)
ACL
- Wade Shen, Brian Delaney, Tim Anderson, and Ray Slyh. 2008. The MIT-LL/AFRL IWSLT-2008 MT system.. In Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign, pages 69–76, Waikiki, Hawaii.