@inproceedings{sanchez-cartagena-etal-2019-universitat,
title = "The {U}niversitat d'Alacant Submissions to the {E}nglish-to-{K}azakh News Translation Task at {WMT} 2019",
author = "S\'anchez-Cartagena, V\'\i ctor M. and
P\'erez-Ortiz, Juan Antonio and
S\'anchez-Mart\'\i nez, Felipe",
editor = "Bojar, Ond\v rej and
Chatterjee, Rajen and
Federmann, Christian and
Fishel, Mark and
Graham, Yvette and
Haddow, Barry and
Huck, Matthias and
Yepes, Antonio Jimeno and
Koehn, Philipp and
Martins, Andr\'e and
Monz, Christof and
Negri, Matteo and
N\'ev\'eol, Aur\'elie and
Neves, Mariana and
Post, Matt and
Turchi, Marco and
Verspoor, Karin",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Machine Translation (Volume 2: Shared Task Papers, Day 1)",
month = aug,
year = "2019",
address = "Florence, Italy",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/W19-5339/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/W19-5339",
pages = "356--363",
abstract = "This paper describes the two submissions of Universitat d'Alacant to the English-to-Kazakh news translation task at WMT 2019. Our submissions take advantage of monolingual data and parallel data from other language pairs by means of iterative backtranslation, pivot backtranslation and transfer learning. They also use linguistic information in two ways: morphological segmentation of Kazakh text, and integration of the output of a rule-based machine translation system. Our systems were ranked second in terms of chrF++ despite being built from an ensemble of only 2 independent training runs."
}
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<modsCollection xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3">
<mods ID="sanchez-cartagena-etal-2019-universitat">
<titleInfo>
<title>The Universitat d’Alacant Submissions to the English-to-Kazakh News Translation Task at WMT 2019</title>
</titleInfo>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Ví</namePart>
<namePart type="given">ctor</namePart>
<namePart type="given">M</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Sánchez-Cartagena</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">author</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Juan</namePart>
<namePart type="given">Antonio</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Pérez-Ortiz</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">author</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Felipe</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Sánchez-Martí nez</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">author</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<originInfo>
<dateIssued>2019-08</dateIssued>
</originInfo>
<typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource>
<relatedItem type="host">
<titleInfo>
<title>Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Machine Translation (Volume 2: Shared Task Papers, Day 1)</title>
</titleInfo>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Ond\v</namePart>
<namePart type="given">rej</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Bojar</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Rajen</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Chatterjee</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Christian</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Federmann</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Mark</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Fishel</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Yvette</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Graham</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Barry</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Haddow</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Matthias</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Huck</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Antonio</namePart>
<namePart type="given">Jimeno</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Yepes</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Philipp</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Koehn</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">André</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Martins</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Christof</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Monz</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Matteo</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Negri</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Aurélie</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Névéol</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Mariana</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Neves</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Matt</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Post</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Marco</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Turchi</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Karin</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Verspoor</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<originInfo>
<publisher>Association for Computational Linguistics</publisher>
<place>
<placeTerm type="text">Florence, Italy</placeTerm>
</place>
</originInfo>
<genre authority="marcgt">conference publication</genre>
</relatedItem>
<abstract>This paper describes the two submissions of Universitat d’Alacant to the English-to-Kazakh news translation task at WMT 2019. Our submissions take advantage of monolingual data and parallel data from other language pairs by means of iterative backtranslation, pivot backtranslation and transfer learning. They also use linguistic information in two ways: morphological segmentation of Kazakh text, and integration of the output of a rule-based machine translation system. Our systems were ranked second in terms of chrF++ despite being built from an ensemble of only 2 independent training runs.</abstract>
<identifier type="citekey">sanchez-cartagena-etal-2019-universitat</identifier>
<identifier type="doi">10.18653/v1/W19-5339</identifier>
<location>
<url>https://aclanthology.org/W19-5339/</url>
</location>
<part>
<date>2019-08</date>
<extent unit="page">
<start>356</start>
<end>363</end>
</extent>
</part>
</mods>
</modsCollection>
%0 Conference Proceedings
%T The Universitat d’Alacant Submissions to the English-to-Kazakh News Translation Task at WMT 2019
%A Sánchez-Cartagena, Ví ctor M.
%A Pérez-Ortiz, Juan Antonio
%A Sánchez-Martí nez, Felipe
%Y Bojar, Ond\v rej
%Y Chatterjee, Rajen
%Y Federmann, Christian
%Y Fishel, Mark
%Y Graham, Yvette
%Y Haddow, Barry
%Y Huck, Matthias
%Y Yepes, Antonio Jimeno
%Y Koehn, Philipp
%Y Martins, André
%Y Monz, Christof
%Y Negri, Matteo
%Y Névéol, Aurélie
%Y Neves, Mariana
%Y Post, Matt
%Y Turchi, Marco
%Y Verspoor, Karin
%S Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Machine Translation (Volume 2: Shared Task Papers, Day 1)
%D 2019
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Florence, Italy
%F sanchez-cartagena-etal-2019-universitat
%X This paper describes the two submissions of Universitat d’Alacant to the English-to-Kazakh news translation task at WMT 2019. Our submissions take advantage of monolingual data and parallel data from other language pairs by means of iterative backtranslation, pivot backtranslation and transfer learning. They also use linguistic information in two ways: morphological segmentation of Kazakh text, and integration of the output of a rule-based machine translation system. Our systems were ranked second in terms of chrF++ despite being built from an ensemble of only 2 independent training runs.
%R 10.18653/v1/W19-5339
%U https://aclanthology.org/W19-5339/
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/W19-5339
%P 356-363
Markdown (Informal)
[The Universitat d’Alacant Submissions to the English-to-Kazakh News Translation Task at WMT 2019](https://aclanthology.org/W19-5339/) (Sánchez-Cartagena et al., WMT 2019)
ACL