@inproceedings{xu-carpuat-2018-university,
title = "The {U}niversity of {M}aryland{'}s {C}hinese-{E}nglish Neural Machine Translation Systems at {WMT}18",
author = "Xu, Weijia and
Carpuat, Marine",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Third Conference on Machine Translation: Shared Task Papers",
month = oct,
year = "2018",
address = "Belgium, Brussels",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/W18-6431",
doi = "10.18653/v1/W18-6431",
pages = "535--540",
abstract = "This paper describes the University of Maryland{'}s submission to the WMT 2018 Chinese↔English news translation tasks. Our systems are BPE-based self-attentional Transformer networks with parallel and backtranslated monolingual training data. Using ensembling and reranking, we improve over the Transformer baseline by +1.4 BLEU for Chinese→English and +3.97 BLEU for English→Chinese on \textit{newstest2017}. Our best systems reach BLEU scores of 24.4 for Chinese→English and 39.0 for English→Chinese on \textit{newstest2018}.",
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Markdown (Informal)
[The University of Maryland’s Chinese-English Neural Machine Translation Systems at WMT18](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6431) (Xu & Carpuat, 2018)
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