@inproceedings{du-way-2010-using,
    title = "Using {TER}p to Augment the System Combination for {SMT}",
    author = "Du, Jinhua  and
      Way, Andy",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas: Research Papers",
    month = oct # " 31-" # nov # " 4",
    year = "2010",
    address = "Denver, Colorado, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Machine Translation in the Americas",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest_wac_2008/2010.amta-papers.9/",
    abstract = "TER-Plus (TERp) is an extended TER evaluation metric incorporating morphology, synonymy and paraphrases. There are three new edit operations in TERp: Stem Matches, Synonym Matches and Phrase Substitutions (Paraphrases). In this paper, we propose a TERp-based augmented system combination in terms of the backbone selection and consensus decoding network. Combining the new properties of the TERp, we also propose a two-pass decoding strategy for the lattice-based phrase-level confusion network (CN) to generate the final result. The experiments conducted on the NIST2008 Chinese-to-English test set show that our TERp-based augmented system combination framework achieves significant improvements in terms of BLEU and TERp scores compared to the state-of-the-art word-level system combination framework and a TER-based combination strategy."
}