The University of Cambridge’s Machine Translation Systems for WMT18

Felix Stahlberg, Adrià de Gispert, Bill Byrne


Abstract
The University of Cambridge submission to the WMT18 news translation task focuses on the combination of diverse models of translation. We compare recurrent, convolutional, and self-attention-based neural models on German-English, English-German, and Chinese-English. Our final system combines all neural models together with a phrase-based SMT system in an MBR-based scheme. We report small but consistent gains on top of strong Transformer ensembles.
Anthology ID:
W18-6427
Volume:
Proceedings of the Third Conference on Machine Translation: Shared Task Papers
Month:
October
Year:
2018
Address:
Belgium, Brussels
Editors:
Ondřej Bojar, Rajen Chatterjee, Christian Federmann, Mark Fishel, Yvette Graham, Barry Haddow, Matthias Huck, Antonio Jimeno Yepes, Philipp Koehn, Christof Monz, Matteo Negri, Aurélie Névéol, Mariana Neves, Matt Post, Lucia Specia, Marco Turchi, Karin Verspoor
Venue:
WMT
SIG:
SIGMT
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
504–512
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/W18-6427
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W18-6427
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Felix Stahlberg, Adrià de Gispert, and Bill Byrne. 2018. The University of Cambridge’s Machine Translation Systems for WMT18. In Proceedings of the Third Conference on Machine Translation: Shared Task Papers, pages 504–512, Belgium, Brussels. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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The University of Cambridge’s Machine Translation Systems for WMT18 (Stahlberg et al., WMT 2018)
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