@inproceedings{khalilov-etal-2008-talp-i2r,
    title = "The {TALP}{\&}{I}2{R} {SMT} systems for {IWSLT} 2008.",
    author = "Khalilov, Maxim  and
      Costa-juss{\`a}, Maria R.  and
      Q., Carlos A. Henr{\'\i}quez  and
      Fonollosa, Jos{\'e} A. R.  and
      H., Adolfo Hern{\'a}ndez  and
      Mari{\~n}o, Jos{\'e} B.  and
      Banchs, Rafael E.  and
      Boxing, Chen  and
      Zhang, Min  and
      Aw, Aiti  and
      Li, Haizhou",
    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.17",
    pages = "116--123",
    abstract = "This paper gives a description of the statistical machine translation (SMT) systems developed at the TALP Research Center of the UPC (Universitat Polite`cnica de Catalunya) for our participation in the IWSLT{'}08 evaluation campaign. We present Ngram-based (TALPtuples) and phrase-based (TALPphrases) SMT systems. The paper explains the 2008 systems{'} architecture and outlines translation schemes we have used, mainly focusing on the new techniques that are challenged to improve speech-to-speech translation quality. The novelties we have introduced are: improved reordering method, linear combination of translation and reordering models and new technique dealing with punctuation marks insertion for a phrase-based SMT system. This year we focus on the Arabic-English, Chinese-Spanish and pivot Chinese-(English)-Spanish translation tasks.",
}