The Heidelberg University machine translation systems for IWSLT2013

Patrick Simianer, Laura Jehl, Stefan Riezler


Abstract
We present our systems for the machine translation evaluation campaign of the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT) 2013. We submitted systems for three language directions: German-to-English, Russian-to-English and English-to-Russian. The focus of our approaches lies on effective usage of the in-domain parallel training data. Therefore, we use the training data to tune parameter weights for millions of sparse lexicalized features using efficient parallelized stochastic learning techniques. For German-to-English we incorporate syntax features. We combine all of our systems with large language models. For the systems involving Russian we also incorporate more data into building of the translation models.
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2013.iwslt-evaluation.21
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Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign
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December 5-6
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2013
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Heidelberg, Germany
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IWSLT
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SIGSLT
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https://aclanthology.org/2013.iwslt-evaluation.21
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Patrick Simianer, Laura Jehl, and Stefan Riezler. 2013. The Heidelberg University machine translation systems for IWSLT2013. In Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign, Heidelberg, Germany.
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The Heidelberg University machine translation systems for IWSLT2013 (Simianer et al., IWSLT 2013)
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