Findings of the 2009 Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation

Authors
  • C. Callison-Burch
  • P. Koehn
  • C. Monz
  • J. Schroeder
Publication date 2009
Host editors
  • C. Callison-Burch
  • P. Koehn
  • C. Monz
  • J. Schroeder
Book title Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, Athens, Greece
Event 4th Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, Athens, Greece
Pages (from-to) 1-28
Publisher Morristown, NJ: Association for Computational Linguistics
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Informatics Institute (IVI)
Abstract This paper presents the results of the WMT09 shared tasks, which included a translation task, a system combination task, and an evaluation task. We conducted a large-scale manual evaluation of 87 machine translation systems and 22 system combination entries. We used the ranking of these systems to measure how strongly automatic metrics correlate with human judgments of translation quality, for more than 20 metrics. We present a new evaluation technique whereby system output is edited and judged for correctness.
Document type Conference contribution
Language English
Published at http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1626431.1626433
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