EACL 2009
Fourth Workshop
on
Statistical Machine Translation
Proceedings of the Workshop
30 March – 31 March 2009
Table of Contents
Findings of the 2009 Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation
Chris Callison-Burch, Philipp Koehn, Christof Monz and Josh Schroeder….1
Syntax-Oriented Evaluation Measures for Machine Translation Output
Maja Popović and Hermann Ney….29
A Simple Automatic MT Evaluation Metric
Petr Homola, Vladislav Kuboň and Pavel Pecina….33
Machine Translation Evaluation with Textual Entailment Features
Sebastian Padó, Michel Galley, Daniel Jurafsky and Christopher D. Manning….37
Combining Multi-Engine Translations with Moses
Yu Chen, Michael Jellinghaus, Andreas Eisele, Yi Zhang, Sabine Hunsicker, Silke Theison, Christian Federmann and Hans Uszkoreit....42
CMU System Combination for WMT'09
Almut Silja Hildebrand and Stephan Vogel….47
The RWTH System Combination System for WMT2009
Gregor Leusch, Evgeny Matusov and Hermann Ney….51
Machine Translation System Combination with Flexible Word Ordering
Kenneth Heafield, Greg Hanneman and Alon Lavie….56
Antti-Veikko Rosti, Bing Zhang, Spyros Matsoukas and Richard Schwartz….61
The RWTH Machine Translation System for WMT2009
Maja Popović, David Vilar, Daniel Stein, Evgeny Matusov and Hermann Ney….66
Translation Combination using Factored Word Substitution
Christian
Federmann, Silke Theison, Andreas Eisele, Hans Uszkoreit, Yu Chen, Michael
Jellinghaus and Sabine Hunsicker….70
Preslav Nakov and Hwee Tou Ng….75
The Universität Karlsruhe Translation System for the EACL-WMT 2009
Jan Niehues, Teresa Herrmann, Muntsin Kolss and Alex Waibel….80
The TALP-UPC Phrase-Based Translation System for EACL-WMT2009
José A. R. Fonollosa, Maxim Khalilov, Marta R. Costa-jussà, Jose B. Mariño, Carlos A. Henríquez Q., Adolfo Hernández H. and Rafael E. Banchs….85
Deep Linguistic Multilingual Translation and Bilingual Dictionaries
Eric Wehrli, Luka Nerima and Yves Scherrer….90
MATREX: The DCU MT System for WMT2009
Jinhua Du, Yifan He, Sergio Penkale and
LIMSI's Statistical Translation Systems for WMT'09
Alexandra Allauzen, Josep Crego, Aurelien Max and François Yvon….100
NICT@WMT09: Model Adaptation and Transliteration for Spanish-English SMT
Michael Paul, Andrew Finch and Eiichiro Sumita….105
Statistical
Post Editing and Dictionary Extraction: Systran/Edinburgh Submissions for
ACL-WMT2009
Loic
Dugast, Jean Senellart and Philipp Koehn….110
Experiments in Morphosyntactic Processing for Translating to and from German
Alexander Fraser….115
Improving Alignment for SMT by Reordering and Augmenting the Training Corpus
Maria Holmqvist, Sara Stymne, Jody Foo and Lars Ahrenberg….120
Ondřej Bojar, David Mareček, Vaclav Novák, Martin Popel, Jan Ptáček, Jan Rouš and Zdeněek Žabokrtský….125
SMT and SPE Machine Translation Systems for WMT'09
Holger Schwenk, Sadaf Abdul Rauf, Loïc Barrault and Jean Senellart….130
Joshua: An Open Source Toolkit for Parsing-Based Machine Translation
Zhifei Li, Chris Callison-Burch, Chris Dyer, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Lane Schwartz, Wren Thornton, Jonathan Weese and Omar Zaidan….135
An Improved Statistical Transfer System for French-English Machine Translation
Greg Hanneman, Vamshi Ambati, Jonathan H. Clark, Alok Parlikar and Alon Lavie….140
Chris Dyer, Hendra Setiawan, Yuval Marton and Philip Resnik….145
Toward Using Morphology in French-English Phrase-Based SMT
Marine Carpuat….150
MorphoLogic's Submission for the WMT 2009 Shared Task
Attila Novak….155
Philipp Koehn and Barry Haddow….160
Mining a Comparable
Text Corpus for a Vietnamese-French Statistical Machine Translation System
Thi
Ngoc Diep Do, Viet Bac Le, Brigitte Bigi, Laurent Besacier and Eric Castelli….165
Improving Arabic-Chinese Statistical Machine Translation using English as Pivot Language
Nizar Habash and Jun Hu….173
Domain Adaptation for Statistical Machine Translation with Monolingual Resources
Nicola Bertoldi and Marcello Federico….182
Jin-Ji Li, Jungi Kim, Dong-Il Kim and Jong-Hyeok Lee….190
A Quantitative Analysis of Reordering Phenomena
Alexandra Birch, Phil Blunsom and Miles Osborne….197
A POS-Based Model for Long-Range Reorderings in SMT
Jan Niehues and Muntsin Kolss….206
Disambiguating "DE" for Chinese-English Machine Translation
Pi-Chuan Chang, Daniel Jurafsky and Christopher D. Manning….215
A Systematic Analysis of Translation Model Search Spaces
Michael Auli, Adam Lopez, Hieu Hoang and Philipp Koehn….224
A Deep Learning Approach to Machine Transliteration
Thomas Deselaers, Sasa Hasan, Oliver Bender and Hermann Ney….233
Stabilizing Minimum Error Rate Training
George Foster and Roland Kuhn….242
On the Robustness of Syntactic and Semantic Features for Automatic MT Evaluation
Jesus Giménez and Lluís Màrquez….250
Fluency, Adequacy, or HTER? Exploring Different Human Judgments with a Tunable MT Metric
Matthew Snover, Nitin Madnani, Bonnie Dorr and Richard Schwartz….259