Mirela-Stefania Duma


2018

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Translation of Biomedical Documents with Focus on Spanish-English
Mirela-Stefania Duma | Wolfgang Menzel
Proceedings of the Third Conference on Machine Translation: Shared Task Papers

For the WMT 2018 shared task of translating documents pertaining to the Biomedical domain, we developed a scoring formula that uses an unsophisticated and effective method of weighting term frequencies and was integrated in a data selection pipeline. The method was applied on five language pairs and it performed best on Portuguese-English, where a BLEU score of 41.84 placed it third out of seven runs submitted by three institutions. In this paper, we describe our method and results with a special focus on Spanish-English where we compare it against a state-of-the-art method. Our contribution to the task lies in introducing a fast, unsupervised method for selecting domain-specific data for training models which obtain good results using only 10% of the general domain data.

2017

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SEF@UHH at SemEval-2017 Task 1: Unsupervised Knowledge-Free Semantic Textual Similarity via Paragraph Vector
Mirela-Stefania Duma | Wolfgang Menzel
Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2017)

This paper describes our unsupervised knowledge-free approach to the SemEval-2017 Task 1 Competition. The proposed method makes use of Paragraph Vector for assessing the semantic similarity between pairs of sentences. We experimented with various dimensions of the vector and three state-of-the-art similarity metrics. Given a cross-lingual task, we trained models corresponding to its two languages and combined the models by averaging the similarity scores. The results of our submitted runs are above the median scores for five out of seven test sets by means of Pearson Correlation. Moreover, one of our system runs performed best on the Spanish-English-WMT test set ranking first out of 53 runs submitted in total by all participants.

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Automatic Threshold Detection for Data Selection in Machine Translation
Mirela-Stefania Duma | Wolfgang Menzel
Proceedings of the Second Conference on Machine Translation

2016

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Data Selection for IT Texts using Paragraph Vector
Mirela-Stefania Duma | Wolfgang Menzel
Proceedings of the First Conference on Machine Translation: Volume 2, Shared Task Papers