The university of illinois submission to the wmt 2015 shared translation task

Lane Schwartz, Bill Bryce, Chase Geigle, Sean Massung, Yisi Liu, Haoruo Peng, Vignesh Raja, Subhro Roy, Shyam Upadhyay

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Abstract

In this year's WMT translation task, Finnish-English was introduced as a language pair of competition for the first time. We present experiments examining several variations on a morphologically-aware statistical phrase-based machine translation system for translating Finnish into English. Our system variations attempt to mitigate the issue of rich agglutinative morphology when translating from Finnish into English. Our WMT submission for Finnish-English preprocesses Finnish data with omorfi (Pirinen, 2015), a Finnish morphological analyzer. We also present results for two other language pairs with morphologically interesting source languages, namely German-English and Czech-English.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication10th Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, WMT 2015 at the 2015 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2015 - Proceedings
EditorsOndrej Bojar, Rajan Chatterjee, Christian Federmann, Barry Haddow, Chris Hokamp, Matthias Huck, Varvara Logacheva, Pavel Pecina
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages192-198
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)9781941643327
StatePublished - 2015
Event10th Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, WMT 2015 at the 2015 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2015 - Lisbon, Portugal
Duration: Sep 17 2015Sep 18 2015

Publication series

Name10th Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, WMT 2015 at the 2015 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2015 - Proceedings

Conference

Conference10th Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, WMT 2015 at the 2015 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2015
Country/TerritoryPortugal
CityLisbon
Period9/17/159/18/15

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Information Systems
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics
  • Computer Science Applications

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