{ "paper_id": "W09-0400", "header": { "generated_with": "S2ORC 1.0.0", "date_generated": "2023-01-19T06:41:21.731551Z" }, "title": "", "authors": [ { "first": "Chris", "middle": [], "last": "Callison-Burch", "suffix": "", "affiliation": {}, "email": "" }, { "first": "Martin", "middle": [], "last": "Kay", "suffix": "", "affiliation": {}, "email": "" }, { "first": "Chris", "middle": [], "last": "Brockett", "suffix": "", "affiliation": {}, "email": "" }, { "first": "Shankar", "middle": [], "last": "Kumar", "suffix": "", "affiliation": {}, "email": "" }, { "first": "Philippe", "middle": [], "last": "Langlais", "suffix": "", "affiliation": {}, "email": "" }, { "first": "Lambert", "middle": [], "last": "Mathias", "suffix": "", "affiliation": {}, "email": "" } ], "year": "", "venue": null, "identifiers": {}, "abstract": "", "pdf_parse": { "paper_id": "W09-0400", "_pdf_hash": "", "abstract": [], "body_text": [ { "text": "The EACL 2009 Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation (WMT09) took place on March 30 and 31 in Athens, Greece, immediately preceding the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), which was organized by the Greek National Centre for Scientific Research, with support from Athens University of Economics and Business -Department of Informatics, and the Institute for Language and Speech Processing. This is the fifth time this workshop has been held. The first time was in 2005 as part of the ACL 2005 Workshop on Building and Using Parallel Texts. In the following years, the Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation was held at HLT-NAACL 2006 in New York City, US, at ACL 2007 in Prague, Czech Republic, and at ACL 2008 The focus of our workshop was to evaluate the state of the art in machine translation (MT) for a variety of languages. Recent experimentation has shown that the performance of machine translation systems varies greatly with the source language. In this workshop, we encouraged researchers to investigate ways to improve the performance of MT systems for diverse languages.", "cite_spans": [ { "start": 690, "end": 704, "text": "HLT-NAACL 2006", "ref_id": null }, { "start": 705, "end": 738, "text": "in New York City, US, at ACL 2007", "ref_id": null }, { "start": 739, "end": 781, "text": "in Prague, Czech Republic, and at ACL 2008", "ref_id": null } ], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Introduction", "sec_num": null }, { "text": "Prior to the workshop, in addition to soliciting relevant papers for review and possible presentation, we conducted a shared task that brought together machine translation systems for an evaluation on previously unseen data. The shared task also included a track for evaluation metrics and system combination methods.", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Introduction", "sec_num": null }, { "text": "The results of the shared task were announced at the workshop, and these proceedings also include an overview paper for the shared task that summarizes the results, as well as provides information about the data used and any procedures that were followed in conducting or scoring the task. In addition, there are short papers from each participating team that describe their underlying system in some detail.", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Introduction", "sec_num": null }, { "text": "Like in previous years, we have received a far larger number of submission than we could accept for presentation. This year we received 21 full paper submissions. 12 full papers were selected for oral presentation.", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Introduction", "sec_num": null }, { "text": "We received 3 short paper submissions for the evaluation task, 5 short paper submissions for the system combination task, and 20 short paper submissions for the translation task. Due to the large number of high quality submission for the full paper track, shared task submissions were presented as posters. The poster session gave participants of the shared task the opportunity to present their approaches.", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Introduction", "sec_num": null }, { "text": "The invited talk was given by Martin Kay (Stanford University and Saarland University).", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Introduction", "sec_num": null }, { "text": "We would like to thank the members of the Program Committee for their timely reviews. We also would like to thank the participants of the shared task and all the other volunteers who helped with the manual evaluations.", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Introduction", "sec_num": null }, { "text": "Chris Callison-Burch, Philipp Koehn, Christof Monz, and Josh Schroeder Co-organizers ", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Introduction", "sec_num": null } ], "back_matter": [], "bib_entries": { "BIBREF1": { "ref_id": "b1", "title": "Edinburgh's Submission to all Tracks of the WMT 2009 Shared Task with Reordering and Speed Improvements to", "authors": [], "year": 2009, "venue": "", "volume": "", "issue": "", "pages": "", "other_ids": {}, "num": null, "urls": [], "raw_text": "Edinburgh's Submission to all Tracks of the WMT 2009 Shared Task with Reordering and Speed Improvements to Moses Philipp Koehn and Barry Haddow Tuesday, March 31, 2009", "links": null }, "BIBREF2": { "ref_id": "b2", "title": "30 Mining a Comparable Text Corpus for a Vietnamese-French Statistical Machine Translation System", "authors": [], "year": null, "venue": "", "volume": "1", "issue": "", "pages": "0--9", "other_ids": {}, "num": null, "urls": [], "raw_text": "Full Papers Session 1: Use of training data 9:00-9:30 Mining a Comparable Text Corpus for a Vietnamese-French Statistical Machine Transla- tion System", "links": null }, "BIBREF3": { "ref_id": "b3", "title": ":30 Domain Adaptation for Statistical Machine Translation with Monolingual Resources Nicola Bertoldi and Marcello Federico 10:30-11:00 Coffee break Full Papers Session 2: Reordering 11:00-11:30 Chinese Syntactic Reordering for Adequate Generation of Korean Verbal Phrases in Chinese-to-Korean SMT", "authors": [ { "first": "Thi Ngoc Diep", "middle": [], "last": "Do", "suffix": "" }, { "first": "Brigitte", "middle": [], "last": "Viet Bac Le", "suffix": "" }, { "first": "Laurent", "middle": [], "last": "Bigi", "suffix": "" }, { "first": "Eric", "middle": [], "last": "Besacier", "suffix": "" }, { "first": "", "middle": [], "last": "Castelli", "suffix": "" } ], "year": 2009, "venue": "00 Improving Arabic-Chinese Statistical Machine Translation using English as Pivot Language Nizar Habash and Jun Hu", "volume": "9", "issue": "", "pages": "30--44", "other_ids": {}, "num": null, "urls": [], "raw_text": "Thi Ngoc Diep Do, Viet Bac Le, Brigitte Bigi, Laurent Besacier and Eric Castelli 9:30-10:00 Improving Arabic-Chinese Statistical Machine Translation using English as Pivot Lan- guage Nizar Habash and Jun Hu 10:00-10:30 Domain Adaptation for Statistical Machine Translation with Monolingual Resources Nicola Bertoldi and Marcello Federico 10:30-11:00 Coffee break Full Papers Session 2: Reordering 11:00-11:30 Chinese Syntactic Reordering for Adequate Generation of Korean Verbal Phrases in Chinese-to-Korean SMT Jin-Ji Li, Jungi Kim, Dong-Il Kim and Jong-Hyeok Lee 11:30-12:00 A Quantitative Analysis of Reordering Phenomena Alexandra Birch, Phil Blunsom and Miles Osborne 12:00-12:30 A POS-Based Model for Long-Range Reorderings in SMT Jan Niehues and Muntsin Kolss 12:30-14:30 Lunch break xiv Tuesday, March 31, 2009 (continued)", "links": null }, "BIBREF4": { "ref_id": "b4", "title": ":30 Coffee break Full Papers Session 4: Error metrics and tuning 16:30-17:00 Stabilizing Minimum Error Rate Training George Foster and Roland Kuhn 17:00-17:30 On the Robustness of Syntactic and Semantic Features for Automatic MT", "authors": [], "year": null, "venue": "00 Fluency, Adequacy, or HTER? 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