Prashanu Mathur


2014

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FBK’s machine translation and speech translation systems for the IWSLT 2014 evaluation campaign
Nicola Bertoldi | Prashanu Mathur | Nicolas Ruiz | Marcello Federico
Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign

This paper describes the systems submitted by FBK for the MT and SLT tracks of IWSLT 2014. We participated in the English-French and German-English machine translation tasks, as well as the English-French speech translation task. We report improvements in our English-French MT systems over last year’s baselines, largely due to improved techniques of combining translation and language models, and using huge language models. For our German-English system, we experimented with a novel domain adaptation technique. For both language pairs we also applied a novel word triggerbased model which shows slight improvements on EnglishFrench and German-English systems. Our English-French SLT system utilizes MT-based punctuation insertion, recasing, and ASR-like synthesized MT training data.