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International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT) 2006Keihanna Science City, Kyoto, Japan |
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We give an overview of the RWTH phrase-based statistical
machine translation system that was used in the evaluation
campaign of the International Workshop on Spoken Language
Translation (IWSLT) 2006. The system was ranked
first with respect to the BLEU measure in all language pairs
it was used.
Using a two-pass aproach, we first generate the N best
translation candidates. The second pass consists of rescoring
and reranking these candidates. We will give a description
of the search algorithm as well as of the models used in each
pass.
We will also describe our method for dealing with punctuation
restoration, in order to overcome the difficulties of
spoken language translation.
This work also includes a brief description of the system
combination done by the partners participating in the European
TC-Star project.
Bibliographic reference. Mauser, Arne / Zens, Richard / Matusov, Evgeny / Hasan, Saša / Ney, Hermann (2006): "The RWTH statistical machine translation system for the IWSLT 2006 evaluation", In IWSLT-2006, 103-110.