Hala Almaghout


2012

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Extending CCG-based Syntactic Constraints in Hierarchical Phrase-Based SMT
Hala Almaghout | Jie Jiang | Andy Way
Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation

2011

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CCG Contextual labels in Hierarchical Phrase-Based SMT
Hala Almaghout | Jie Jiang | Andy Way
Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation

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The DCU machine translation systems for IWSLT 2011
Pratyush Banerjee | Hala Almaghout | Sudip Naskar | Johann Roturier | Jie Jiang | Andy Way | Josef van Genabith
Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign

In this paper, we provide a description of the Dublin City University’s (DCU) submissions in the IWSLT 2011 evaluationcampaign.1 WeparticipatedintheArabic-Englishand Chinese-English Machine Translation(MT) track translation tasks. We use phrase-based statistical machine translation (PBSMT) models to create the baseline system. Due to the open-domain nature of the data to be translated, we use domain adaptation techniques to improve the quality of translation. Furthermore, we explore target-side syntactic augmentation for an Hierarchical Phrase-Based (HPB) SMT model. Combinatory Categorial Grammar (CCG) is used to extract labels for target-side phrases and non-terminals in the HPB system. Combining the domain adapted language models with the CCG-augmented HPB system gave us the best translations for both language pairs providing statistically significant improvements of 6.09 absolute BLEU points (25.94% relative) and 1.69 absolute BLEU points (15.89% relative) over the unadapted PBSMT baselines for the Arabic-English and Chinese-English language pairs, respectively.

2010

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The DCU machine translation systems for IWSLT 2010
Hala Almaghout | Jie Jiang | Andy Way
Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign

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CCG augmented hierarchical phrase-based machine translation
Hala Almaghout | Jie Jiang | Andy Way
Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Papers