@inproceedings{nakov-etal-2009-nus,
    title = "The {NUS} statistical machine translation system for {IWSLT} 2009",
    author = "Nakov, Preslav  and
      Liu, Chang  and
      Lu, Wei  and
      Ng, Hwee Tou",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign",
    month = dec # " 1-2",
    year = "2009",
    address = "Tokyo, Japan",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/2009.iwslt-evaluation.14/",
    pages = "91--98",
    abstract = "We describe the system developed by the team of the National University of Singapore for the Chinese-English BTEC task of the IWSLT 2009 evaluation campaign. We adopted a state-of-the-art phrase-based statistical machine translation approach and focused on experiments with different Chinese word segmentation standards. In our official submission, we trained a separate system for each segmenter and we combined the outputs in a subsequent re-ranking step. Given the small size of the training data, we further re-trained the system on the development data after tuning. The evaluation results show that both strategies yield sizeable and consistent improvements in translation quality."
}