WMT 2011
Sixth Workshop on
Statistical Machine
Translation
Proceedings of the
Workshop
July 30–31, 2011
Table of Contents
A Grain of Salt for the
WMT Manual Evaluation
Ondřej Bojar, Miloš Ercegovčević, Martin
Popel and Omar Zaidan . . . 1
A Lightweight Evaluation
Framework for Machine Translation Reordering
David Talbot, Hideto Kazawa, Hiroshi Ichikawa, Jason
Katz-Brown, Masakazu Seno and Franz Och . . .
12
Findings of the
2011 Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation
Chris Callison-Burch, Philipp Koehn, Christof Monz and Omar
Zaidan . . . 22
Eleftherios Avramidis, Maja Popović, David Vilar and
Aljoscha Burchardt . . . 65
AMBER: A Modified BLEU, Enhanced
Ranking Metric
Boxing Chen and Roland Kuhn . . . 71
TESLA at WMT 2011:
Translation Evaluation and Tunable Metric
Daniel Dahlmeier, Chang Liu and Hwee Tou Ng . . . 78
Meteor 1.3: Automatic
Metric for Reliable Optimization and Evaluation of Machine Translation Systems
Michael Denkowski and Alon Lavie . . . 85
Approximating a
Deep-Syntactic Metric for MT Evaluation and Tuning
Matouš Macháček and Ondřej Bojar . . . 92
Evaluation without
references: IBM1 scores as evaluation metrics
Maja Popović, David Vilar, Eleftherios Avramidis and
Aljoscha Burchardt . . . 99
Morphemes and POS tags
for n-gram based evaluation metrics
Maja Popović . . . 104
Kristen Parton, Joel Tetreault, Nitin Madnani and Martin
Chodorow . . . 108
TINE: A Metric to Assess MT
Adequacy
Miguel Rios, Wilker Aziz and Lucia Specia . . . 116
Regression and Ranking
based Optimisation for Sentence Level MT Evaluation
Xingyi Song and Trevor Cohn . . . 123
MAISE: A Flexible,
Configurable, Extensible Open Source Package for Mass AI System Evaluation
Omar Zaidan . . .130
Loïc Barrault. . . . 135
The UPV-PRHLT
combination system for WMT 2011
Jesús González-Rubio and Francisco Casacuberta. . . .140
CMU System
Combination in WMT 2011
Kenneth Heafield and Alon Lavie . . .145
The RWTH System
Combination System for WMT 2011
Gregor Leusch, Markus Freitag and Hermann Ney . . .152
Expected BLEU Training for
Graphs: BBN System Description for WMT11 System Combination Task
Antti-Veikko Rosti, Bing Zhang, Spyros Matsoukas and
Richard Schwartz . . . 159
The UZH System
Combination System for WMT 2011
Rico Sennrich . . .166
Description of the JHU
System Combination Scheme for WMT 2011
Daguang Xu, Yuan Cao and Damianos Karakos . . . 171
Multiple-stream
Language Models for Statistical Machine Translation
Abby Levenberg, Miles Osborne and David Matthews. . . 177
KenLM: Faster and
Smaller Language Model Queries
Kenneth Heafield . . .187
Wider Context by Using
Bilingual Language Models in Machine Translation
Jan Niehues, Teresa Herrmann, Stephan Vogel and Alex Waibel
. . .198
A Minimally Supervised
Approach for Detecting and Ranking Document Translation Pairs
Kriste Krstovski and David A. Smith . . . 207
Agreement Constraints
for Statistical Machine Translation into German
Philip Williams and Philipp Koehn . . . 217
Fuzzy Syntactic
Reordering for Phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation
Jacob Andreas, Nizar Habash and Owen Rambow . . . 227
Yuval Marton, Ahmed El Kholy and Nizar Habash . . . 237
Productive Generation
of Compound Words in Statistical Machine Translation
Sara Stymne and Nicola Cancedda . . . 250
SampleRank Training for
Phrase-Based Machine Translation
Barry Haddow, Abhishek Arun and Philipp Koehn . . . 261
Instance Selection for
Machine Translation using Feature Decay Algorithms
Ergun Biçici and Deniz Yuret . . . 272
Investigations on
Translation Model Adaptation Using Monolingual Data
Patrik Lambert, Holger Schwenk, Christophe Servan and Sadaf
Abdul-Rauf . . . 284
Topic Adaptation for
Lecture Translation through Bilingual Latent Semantic Models
Nick Ruiz and Marcello Federico . . . 294
Personal Translator at
WMT2011
Vera Aleksić and Gregor Thurmair . . . 303
Alexandre Allauzen, Hélène Bonneau-Maynard, Hai-Son Le,
Aurélien Max, Guillaume Wisniewski,
François Yvon, Gilles Adda, Josep Maria Crego, Adrien
Lardilleux, Thomas Lavergne and
Artem Sokolov. . . 309
Shallow Semantic Trees for
SMT
Wilker Aziz, Miguel Rios and Lucia Specia . . .316
RegMT System for
Machine Translation, System Combination, and Evaluation
Ergun Biçici and Deniz Yuret . . . 323
Improving Translation
Model by Monolingual Data
Ondřej Bojar and Aleš Tamchyna . . .330
The CMU-ARK German-English
Translation System
Chris Dyer, Kevin Gimpel, Jonathan H. Clark and Noah A.
Smith . . .337
Noisy SMS Machine
Translation in Low-Density Languages
Vladimir Eidelman, Kristy Hollingshead and Philip Resnik .
. . 344
Stochastic Parse Tree
Selection for an Existing RBMT System
Christian Federmann and Sabine Hunsicker . . . 351
Joint WMT Submission of
the QUAERO Project
Markus Freitag, Gregor Leusch, Joern Wuebker, Stephan Peitz,
Hermann Ney, Teresa Herrmann,
Jan Niehues, Alex Waibel, Alexandre Allauzen, Gilles Adda,
Josep Maria Crego, Bianka Buschbeck,
Tonio Wandmacher and Jean Senellart . . . 358
CMU Syntax-Based
Machine Translation at WMT 2011
Greg Hanneman and Alon Lavie . . . 365
The Uppsala-FBK
systems at WMT 2011
Christian Hardmeier, Jörg Tiedemann, Markus Saers, Marcello
Federico and Mathur Prashant…372
The Karlsruhe Institute
of Technology Translation Systems for the WMT 2011
Teresa Herrmann, Mohammed Mediani, Jan Niehues and Alex
Waibel . . . 379
CMU Haitian
Creole-English Translation System for WMT 2011
Sanjika Hewavitharana, Nguyen Bach, Qin Gao, Vamshi Ambati
and Stephan Vogel . . . 386
Maria Holmqvist, Sara Stymne and Lars Ahrenberg . . . 393
Chang Hu, Philip Resnik, Yakov Kronrod, Vladimir Eidelman,
Olivia Buzek and Benjamin B.Bederson . . . 399
The RWTH Aachen Machine
Translation System for WMT 2011
Matthias Huck, Joern Wuebker, Christoph Schmidt, Markus
Freitag, Stephan Peitz, Daniel Stein,
Arnaud Dagnelies, Saab Mansour, Gregor Leusch and Hermann
Ney . . . 405
ILLC-UvA translation
system for EMNLP-WMT 2011
Maxim Khalilov and Khalil Sima’an . . . 413
UPM system for the
translation task
Véronique López-Ludeña and Rubén San-Segundo . . .420
Two-step translation
with grammatical post-processing
David Mareček, Rudolf Rosa,
Influence of Parser Choice
on Dependency-Based MT
Martin Popel, David Mareček, Nathan Green and Zdeněk
Žabokrtský . . .433
The LIGA (LIG/LIA) Machine
Translation System for WMT 2011
Marion Potet, Raphaël Rubino, Benjamin Lecouteux, Stéphane
Huet, Laurent Besacier, Hervé
Blanchon and Fabrice Lefèvre . . . 440
Factored Translation with
Unsupervised Word Clusters
Christian Rishøj and Anders Søgaard . . .447
Marta R. Costa-jussà and Rafael E. Banchs . . . 452
The Universitat
d’Alacant hybrid machine translation system for WMT 2011
V´ıctor M. Sánchez-Cartagena, Felipe Sánchez-Martínez
and Juan Antonio Pérez-Ortiz . . . 457
LIUM’s SMT Machine
Translation Systems for WMT 2011
Holger Schwenk, Patrik Lambert, Loïc Barrault, Christophe
Servan, Sadaf Abdul-Rauf, Haithem Afli and Kashif Shah . . . 464
Sara Stymne . . . 470
Joshua 3.0: Syntax-based
Machine Translation with the Thrax Grammar Extractor
Jonathan Weese, Juri Ganitkevitch, Chris Callison-Burch,
Matt Post and Adam Lopez . . . 478
DFKI Hybrid Machine
Translation System for WMT 2011 - On the Integration of SMT and RBMT
Jia Xu, Hans Uszkoreit, Casey Kennington, David Vilar and
Xiaojun Zhang . . .485
CEU-UPV
English-Spanish system for WMT11
Francisco Zamora-Martinez and Maria Jose Castro-Bleda . . .
490
Hierarchical Phrase-Based
MT at the Charles University for the WMT 2011 Shared Task
Daniel Zeman . . . 496
Crisis MT: Developing A
Cookbook for MT in Crisis Situations
William Lewis, Robert Munro and Stephan Vogel . . . 501
Generative Models of
Monolingual and Bilingual Gappy Patterns
Kevin Gimpel and Noah A. Smith . . . 512
Extraction Programs: A
Unified Approach to Translation Rule Extraction
Mark Hopkins, Greg Langmead and Tai Vo . . . 523
Bayesian Extraction of
Minimal SCFG Rules for Hierarchical Phrase-based Translation
Baskaran Sankaran, Gholamreza Haffari and Anoop Sarkar . .
. 533
From n-gram-based to
CRF-based Translation Models
Thomas Lavergne, Alexandre Allauzen, Josep Maria Crego and François
Yvon . . . 542