Recent Improvements in the CMU Large Scale Chinese-English SMT System

In this paper we describe recent improvements to components and methods used in our statistical machine translation system for ChineseEnglish used in the January 2008 GALE evaluation. Main improvements are results of consistent data processing, larger statistical models and a POS-based word reordering approach.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: ACL
• Authors: Almut Silja Hildebrand, Kay Rottmann, Mohamed Noamany, Quin Gao, Sanjika Hewavitharana, Nguyen Bach, Stephan Vogel
• Keywords: ACL 2008, Computational Linguistics, January 2008 Gale, Larger Statistical Models, Statistical Machine Translation