DFKI’s SC and MT submissions to IWSLT 2011
David Vilar, Eleftherios Avramidis, Maja Popović, Sabine Hunsicker
Abstract
We describe DFKI’s submission to the System Combination and Machine Translation tracks of the 2011 IWSLT Evaluation Campaign. We focus on a sentence selection mechanism which chooses the (hopefully) best sentence among a set of candidates. The rationale behind it is to take advantage of the strengths of each system, especially given an heterogeneous dataset like the one in this evaluation campaign, composed of TED Talks of very different topics. We focus on using features that correlate well with human judgement and, while our primary system still focus on optimizing the BLEU score on the development set, our goal is to move towards optimizing directly the correlation with human judgement. This kind of system is still under development and was used as a secondary submission.- Anthology ID:
- 2011.iwslt-evaluation.13
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign
- Month:
- December 8-9
- Year:
- 2011
- Address:
- San Francisco, California
- Editors:
- Marcello Federico, Mei-Yuh Hwang, Margit Rödder, Sebastian Stüker
- Venue:
- IWSLT
- SIG:
- SIGSLT
- Publisher:
- Note:
- Pages:
- 98–105
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2011.iwslt-evaluation.13
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- David Vilar, Eleftherios Avramidis, Maja Popović, and Sabine Hunsicker. 2011. DFKI’s SC and MT submissions to IWSLT 2011. In Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign, pages 98–105, San Francisco, California.
- Cite (Informal):
- DFKI’s SC and MT submissions to IWSLT 2011 (Vilar et al., IWSLT 2011)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/dois-2013-emnlp/2011.iwslt-evaluation.13.pdf