@inproceedings{ma-mckeown-2012-phrase,
    title = "Phrase-level System Combination for Machine Translation Based on Target-to-Target Decoding",
    author = "Ma, Wei-Yun  and
      McKeown, Kathleen",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 10th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas: Research Papers",
    month = oct # " 28-" # nov # " 1",
    year = "2012",
    address = "San Diego, California, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Machine Translation in the Americas",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/2012.amta-papers.11/",
    abstract = "In this paper, we propose a novel lattice-based MT combination methodology that we call Target-to-Target Decoding (TTD). The combination process is carried out as a ``translation'' from backbone to the combination result. This perspective suggests the use of existing phrase-based MT techniques in the combination framework. We show how phrase extraction rules and confidence estimations inspired from machine translation improve results. We also propose system-specific LMs for estimating N-gram consensus. Our results show that our approach yields a strong improvement over the best single MT system and competes with other state-of-the-art combination systems."
}