The TALP&I2R SMT systems for IWSLT 2008.

Maxim Khalilov, Maria R. Costa-jussà, Carlos A. Henríquez Q., José A. R. Fonollosa, Adolfo Hernández H., José B. Mariño, Rafael E. Banchs, Chen Boxing, Min Zhang, Aiti Aw, Haizhou Li


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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.
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2008.iwslt-evaluation.17
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Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign
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October 20-21
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2008
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Waikiki, Hawaii
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IWSLT
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SIGSLT
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116–123
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Maxim Khalilov, Maria R. Costa-jussà, Carlos A. Henríquez Q., José A. R. Fonollosa, Adolfo Hernández H., José B. Mariño, Rafael E. Banchs, Chen Boxing, Min Zhang, Aiti Aw, and Haizhou Li. 2008. The TALP&I2R SMT systems for IWSLT 2008.. In Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign, pages 116–123, Waikiki, Hawaii.
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The TALP&I2R SMT systems for IWSLT 2008. (Khalilov et al., IWSLT 2008)
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