%0 Conference Proceedings %T The TALP&I2R SMT systems for IWSLT 2008. %A Khalilov, Maxim %A Costa-jussà, Maria R. %A Q., Carlos A. Henríquez %A Fonollosa, José A. R. %A H., Adolfo Hernández %A Mariño, José B. %A Banchs, Rafael E. %A Boxing, Chen %A Zhang, Min %A Aw, Aiti %A Li, Haizhou %S Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign %D 2008 %8 oct 20 21 %C Waikiki, Hawaii %F khalilov-etal-2008-talp-i2r %X 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. %U https://aclanthology.org/2008.iwslt-evaluation.17 %P 116-123