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Research Papers
pdf	bib	Scaling Neural Machine Translation Myle Ott, Sergey Edunov, David Grangier and Michael Auli	pp. 1–9
pdf	bib	Character-level Chinese-English Translation through ASCII Encoding Nikola Nikolov, Yuhuang Hu, Mi Xue Tan and Richard H.R. Hahnloser	pp. 10–16
pdf	bib	Neural Machine Translation of Logographic Language Using Sub-character Level Information Longtu Zhang and Mamoru Komachi	pp. 17–25
pdf	bib	An Analysis of Attention Mechanisms: The Case of Word Sense Disambiguation in Neural Machine Translation Gongbo Tang, Rico Sennrich and Joakim Nivre	pp. 26–35
pdf	bib	Discourse-Related Language Contrasts in English-Croatian Human and Machine Translation Margita Šoštarić, Christian Hardmeier and Sara Stymne	pp. 36–48
pdf	bib	Coreference and Coherence in Neural Machine Translation: A Study Using Oracle Experiments Dario Stojanovski and Alexander Fraser	pp. 49–60
pdf	bib	A Large-Scale Test Set for the Evaluation of Context-Aware Pronoun Translation in Neural Machine Translation Mathias Müller, Annette Rios, Elena Voita and Rico Sennrich	pp. 61–72
pdf	bib	Beyond Weight Tying: Learning Joint Input-Output Embeddings for Neural Machine Translation Nikolaos Pappas, Lesly Miculicich and James Henderson	pp. 73–83
pdf	bib	A neural interlingua for multilingual machine translation Yichao Lu, Phillip Keung, Faisal Ladhak, Vikas Bhardwaj, Shaonan Zhang and Jason Sun	pp. 84–92
pdf	bib	Improving Neural Language Models with Weight Norm Initialization and Regularization Christian Herold, Yingbo Gao and Hermann Ney	pp. 93–100
pdf	bib	Contextual Neural Model for Translating Bilingual Multi-Speaker Conversations Sameen Maruf, André F. T. Martins and Gholamreza Haffari	pp. 101–112
pdf	bib	Attaining the Unattainable? Reassessing Claims of Human Parity in Neural Machine Translation Antonio Toral, Sheila Castilho, Ke Hu and Andy Way	pp. 113–123
pdf	bib	Freezing Subnetworks to Analyze Domain Adaptation in Neural Machine Translation Brian Thompson, Huda Khayrallah, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Arya D. McCarthy, Kevin Duh, Rebecca Marvin, Paul McNamee, Jeremy Gwinnup, Tim Anderson and Philipp Koehn	pp. 124–132
pdf	bib	Denoising Neural Machine Translation Training with Trusted Data and Online Data Selection Wei Wang, Taro Watanabe, Macduff Hughes, Tetsuji Nakagawa and Ciprian Chelba	pp. 133–143
pdf	bib	Using Monolingual Data in Neural Machine Translation: a Systematic Study Franck Burlot and François Yvon	pp. 144–155
pdf	bib	Neural Machine Translation into Language Varieties Surafel Melaku Lakew, Aliia Erofeeva and Marcello Federico	pp. 156–164
pdf	bib	Effective Parallel Corpus Mining using Bilingual Sentence Embeddings Mandy Guo, Qinlan Shen, Yinfei Yang, Heming Ge, Daniel Cer, Gustavo Hernandez Abrego, Keith Stevens, Noah Constant, Yun-hsuan Sung, Brian Strope and Ray Kurzweil	pp. 165–176
pdf	bib	On The Alignment Problem In Multi-Head Attention-Based Neural Machine Translation Tamer Alkhouli, Gabriel Bretschner and Hermann Ney	pp. 177–185
pdf	bib	A Call for Clarity in Reporting BLEU Scores Matt Post	pp. 186–191
pdf	bib	Exploring gap filling as a cheaper alternative to reading comprehension questionnaires when evaluating machine translation for gisting Mikel L. Forcada, Carolina Scarton, Lucia Specia, Barry Haddow and Alexandra Birch	pp. 192–203
pdf	bib	Simple Fusion: Return of the Language Model Felix Stahlberg, James Cross and Veselin Stoyanov	pp. 204–211
pdf	bib	Correcting Length Bias in Neural Machine Translation Kenton Murray and David Chiang	pp. 212–223
pdf	bib	Extracting In-domain Training Corpora for Neural Machine Translation Using Data Selection Methods Catarina Cruz Silva, Chao-Hong Liu, Alberto Poncelas and Andy Way	pp. 224–231
pdf	bib	Massively Parallel Cross-Lingual Learning in Low-Resource Target Language Translation Zhong Zhou, Matthias Sperber and Alexander Waibel	pp. 232–243
pdf	bib	Trivial Transfer Learning for Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation Tom Kocmi and Ondřej Bojar	pp. 244–252
pdf	bib	Input Combination Strategies for Multi-Source Transformer Decoder Jindřich Libovický, Jindřich Helcl and David Mareček	pp. 253–260
pdf	bib	Parameter Sharing Methods for Multilingual Self-Attentional Translation Models Devendra Sachan and Graham Neubig	pp. 261–271
Shared Task Overview Papers
pdf	bib	Findings of the 2018 Conference on Machine Translation (WMT18) Ondřej Bojar, Christian Federmann, Mark Fishel, Yvette Graham, Barry Haddow, Matthias Huck, Philipp Koehn and Christof Monz	pp. 272–307
pdf	bib	Findings of the Third Shared Task on Multimodal Machine Translation Loïc Barrault, Fethi Bougares, Lucia Specia, Chiraag Lala, Desmond Elliott and Stella Frank	pp. 308–327
pdf	bib	Findings of the WMT 2018 Biomedical Translation Shared Task: Evaluation on Medline test sets Mariana Neves, Antonio Jimeno Yepes, Aurélie Névéol, Cristian Grozea, Amy Siu, Madeleine Kittner and Karin Verspoor	pp. 328–343
pdf	bib	Results of the WMT18 Metrics Shared Task: Both characters and embeddings achieve good performance Qingsong Ma, Ondřej Bojar and Yvette Graham	pp. 682–701
pdf	bib	Findings of the WMT 2018 Shared Task on Quality Estimation Lucia Specia, Frédéric Blain, Varvara Logacheva, Ramón Astudillo and André F. T. Martins	pp. 702–722
pdf	bib	Findings of the WMT 2018 Shared Task on Automatic Post-Editing Rajen Chatterjee, Matteo Negri, Raphael Rubino and Marco Turchi	pp. 723–738
pdf	bib	Findings of the WMT 2018 Shared Task on Parallel Corpus Filtering Philipp Koehn, Huda Khayrallah, Kenneth Heafield and Mikel L. Forcada	pp. 739–752
Shared Task: News Translation
pdf	bib	An Empirical Study of Machine Translation for the Shared Task of WMT18 Chao Bei, Hao Zong, Yiming Wang, Baoyong Fan, Shiqi Li and Conghu Yuan	pp. 344–348
pdf	bib	Robust parfda Statistical Machine Translation Results Ergun Biçici	pp. 349–358
pdf	bib	The TALP-UPC Machine Translation Systems for WMT18 News Shared Translation Task Noe Casas, Carlos Escolano, Marta R. Costa-jussà and José A. R. Fonollosa	pp. 359–364
pdf	bib	Phrase-based Unsupervised Machine Translation with Compositional Phrase Embeddings Maksym Del, Andre Tättar and Mark Fishel	pp. 365–371
pdf	bib	Alibaba’s Neural Machine Translation Systems for WMT18 Yongchao Deng, Shanbo Cheng, Jun Lu, Kai Song, Jingang Wang, Shenglan Wu, Liang Yao, Guchun Zhang, Haibo Zhang, Pei Zhang, Changfeng Zhu and Boxing Chen	pp. 372–380
pdf	bib	The RWTH Aachen University English-German and German-English Unsupervised Neural Machine Translation Systems for WMT 2018 Miguel Graça, Yunsu Kim, Julian Schamper, Jiahui Geng and Hermann Ney	pp. 381–389
pdf	bib	Cognate-aware morphological segmentation for multilingual neural translation Stig-Arne Grönroos, Sami Virpioja and Mikko Kurimo	pp. 390–397
pdf	bib	The AFRL WMT18 Systems: Ensembling, Continuation and Combination Jeremy Gwinnup, Tim Anderson, Grant Erdmann and Katherine Young	pp. 398–402
pdf	bib	The University of Edinburgh's Submissions to the WMT18 News Translation Task Barry Haddow, Nikolay Bogoychev, Denis Emelin, Ulrich Germann, Roman Grundkiewicz, Kenneth Heafield, Antonio Valerio Miceli Barone and Rico Sennrich	pp. 403–413
pdf	bib	TencentFmRD Neural Machine Translation for WMT18 Bojie Hu, Ambyer Han and Shen Huang	pp. 414–421
pdf	bib	The MLLP-UPV German-English Machine Translation System for WMT18 Javier Iranzo-Sánchez, Pau Baquero-Arnal, Gonçal V. Garcés Díaz-Munío, Adrià Martínez-Villaronga, Jorge Civera and Alfons Juan	pp. 422–428
pdf	bib	Microsoft’s Submission to the WMT2018 News Translation Task: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Data Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt	pp. 429–434
pdf	bib	CUNI Submissions in WMT18 Tom Kocmi, Roman Sudarikov and Ondřej Bojar	pp. 435–441
pdf	bib	The JHU Machine Translation Systems for WMT 2018 Philipp Koehn, Kevin Duh and Brian Thompson	pp. 442–448
pdf	bib	JUCBNMT at WMT2018 News Translation Task: Character Based Neural Machine Translation of Finnish to English Sainik Kumar Mahata, Dipankar Das and Sivaji Bandyopadhyay	pp. 449–452
pdf	bib	NICT’s Neural and Statistical Machine Translation Systems for the WMT18 News Translation Task Benjamin Marie, Rui Wang, Atsushi Fujita, Masao Utiyama and Eiichiro Sumita	pp. 453–459
pdf	bib	PROMT Systems for WMT 2018 Shared Translation Task Alexander Molchanov	pp. 460–464
pdf	bib	NTT’s Neural Machine Translation Systems for WMT 2018 Makoto Morishita, Jun Suzuki and Masaaki Nagata	pp. 465–470
pdf	bib	The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Systems for the News Translation Task in WMT 2018 Ngoc-Quan Pham, Jan Niehues and Alexander Waibel	pp. 471–476
pdf	bib	Tilde’s Machine Translation Systems for WMT 2018 Marcis Pinnis, Matiss Rikters and Rihards Krišlauks	pp. 477–485
pdf	bib	CUNI Transformer Neural MT System for WMT18 Martin Popel	pp. 486–491
pdf	bib	The University of Helsinki submissions to the WMT18 news task Alessandro Raganato, Yves Scherrer, Tommi Nieminen, Arvi Hurskainen and Jörg Tiedemann	pp. 492–499
pdf	bib	The RWTH Aachen University Supervised Machine Translation Systems for WMT 2018 Julian Schamper, Jan Rosendahl, Parnia Bahar, Yunsu Kim, Arne Nix and Hermann Ney	pp. 500–507
pdf	bib	The University of Cambridge's Machine Translation Systems for WMT18 Felix Stahlberg, Adrià de Gispert and Bill Byrne	pp. 508–516
pdf	bib	The LMU Munich Unsupervised Machine Translation Systems Dario Stojanovski, Viktor Hangya, Matthias Huck and Alexander Fraser	pp. 517–525
pdf	bib	Tencent Neural Machine Translation Systems for WMT18 Mingxuan Wang, Li Gong, Wenhuan Zhu, Jun Xie and Chao Bian	pp. 526–531
pdf	bib	The NiuTrans Machine Translation System for WMT18 Qiang Wang, Bei Li, Jiqiang Liu, Bojian Jiang, Zheyang Zhang, Yinqiao Li, Ye Lin, Tong Xiao and Jingbo Zhu	pp. 532–538
pdf	bib	The University of Maryland’s Chinese-English Neural Machine Translation Systems at WMT18 Weijia Xu and Marine Carpuat	pp. 539–544
Shared Task: Extra Test Suites
pdf	bib	EvalD Reference-Less Discourse Evaluation for WMT18 Ondřej Bojar, Jiří Mírovský, Kateřina Rysová and Magdaléna Rysová	pp. 545–549
pdf	bib	The WMT’18 Morpheval test suites for English-Czech, English-German, English-Finnish and Turkish-English Franck Burlot, Yves Scherrer, Vinit Ravishankar, Ondřej Bojar, Stig-Arne Grönroos, Maarit Koponen, Tommi Nieminen and François Yvon	pp. 550–564
pdf	bib	Testsuite on Czech–English Grammatical Contrasts Silvie Cinkova and Ondřej Bojar	pp. 565–575
pdf	bib	A Pronoun Test Suite Evaluation of the English–German MT Systems at WMT 2018 Liane Guillou, Christian Hardmeier, Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski and Sharid Loáiciga	pp. 576–583
pdf	bib	Fine-grained evaluation of German-English Machine Translation based on a Test Suite Vivien Macketanz, Eleftherios Avramidis, Aljoscha Burchardt and Hans Uszkoreit	pp. 584–593
pdf	bib	The Word Sense Disambiguation Test Suite at WMT18 Annette Rios, Mathias Müller and Rico Sennrich	pp. 594–602
Shared Task: Multimodal Translation
pdf	bib	LIUM-CVC Submissions for WMT18 Multimodal Translation Task Ozan Caglayan, Adrien Bardet, Fethi Bougares, Loïc Barrault, Kai Wang, Marc Masana, Luis Herranz and Joost van de Weijer	pp. 603–608
pdf	bib	The MeMAD Submission to the WMT18 Multimodal Translation Task Stig-Arne Grönroos, Benoit Huet, Mikko Kurimo, Jorma Laaksonen, Bernard Merialdo, Phu Pham, Mats Sjöberg, Umut Sulubacak, Jörg Tiedemann, Raphael Troncy and Raúl Vázquez	pp. 609–617
pdf	bib	The AFRL-Ohio State WMT18 Multimodal System: Combining Visual with Traditional Jeremy Gwinnup, Joshua Sandvick, Michael Hutt, Grant Erdmann, John Duselis and James Davis	pp. 618–621
pdf	bib	CUNI System for the WMT18 Multimodal Translation Task Jindřich Helcl, Jindřich Libovický and Dusan Varis	pp. 622–629
pdf	bib	Sheffield Submissions for WMT18 Multimodal Translation Shared Task Chiraag Lala, Pranava Swaroop Madhyastha, Carolina Scarton and Lucia Specia	pp. 630–637
pdf	bib	Ensemble Sequence Level Training for Multimodal MT: OSU-Baidu WMT18 Multimodal Machine Translation System Report Renjie Zheng, Yilin Yang, Mingbo Ma and Liang Huang	pp. 638–642
pdf	bib	UMONS Submission for WMT18 Multimodal Translation Task Jean-Benoit Delbrouck and Stéphane Dupont	pp. 643–647
Shared Task: Biomedical Translation
pdf	bib	Translation of Biomedical Documents with Focus on Spanish-English Mirela-Stefania Duma and Wolfgang Menzel	pp. 648–654
pdf	bib	Ensemble of Translators with Automatic Selection of the Best Translation – the submission of FOKUS to the WMT 18 biomedical translation task – Cristian Grozea	pp. 655–658
pdf	bib	LMU Munich's Neural Machine Translation Systems at WMT 2018 Matthias Huck, Dario Stojanovski, Viktor Hangya and Alexander Fraser	pp. 659–665
pdf	bib	Hunter NMT System for WMT18 Biomedical Translation Task: Transfer Learning in Neural Machine Translation Abdul Khan, Subhadarshi Panda, Jia Xu and Lampros Flokas	pp. 666–672
pdf	bib	UFRGS Participation on the WMT Biomedical Translation Shared Task Felipe Soares and Karin Becker	pp. 673–677
pdf	bib	Neural Machine Translation with the Transformer and Multi-Source Romance Languages for the Biomedical WMT 2018 task Brian Tubay and Marta R. Costa-jussà	pp. 678–681
Shared Task: Metrics
pdf	bib	Meteor++: Incorporating Copy Knowledge into Machine Translation Evaluation Yinuo Guo, Chong Ruan and Junfeng Hu	pp. 753–758
pdf	bib	ITER: Improving Translation Edit Rate through Optimizable Edit Costs Joybrata Panja and Sudip Kumar Naskar	pp. 759–763
pdf	bib	RUSE: Regressor Using Sentence Embeddings for Automatic Machine Translation Evaluation Hiroki Shimanaka, Tomoyuki Kajiwara and Mamoru Komachi	pp. 764–771
Shared Task: Quality Estimation
pdf	bib	Keep It or Not: Word Level Quality Estimation for Post-Editing Prasenjit Basu, Santanu Pal and Sudip Kumar Naskar	pp. 772–777
pdf	bib	RTM results for Predicting Translation Performance Ergun Biçici	pp. 778–782
pdf	bib	Neural Machine Translation for English-Tamil Himanshu Choudhary, Aditya Kumar Pathak, Rajiv Ratan Saha and Ponnurangam Kumaraguru	pp. 783–788
pdf	bib	The Benefit of Pseudo-Reference Translations in Quality Estimation of MT Output Melania Duma and Wolfgang Menzel	pp. 789–794
pdf	bib	Supervised and Unsupervised Minimalist Quality Estimators: Vicomtech’s Participation in the WMT 2018 Quality Estimation Task Thierry Etchegoyhen, Eva Martínez Garcia and Andoni Azpeitia	pp. 795–800
pdf	bib	Contextual Encoding for Translation Quality Estimation Junjie Hu, Wei-Cheng Chang, Yuexin Wu and Graham Neubig	pp. 801–806
pdf	bib	Sheffield Submissions for the WMT18 Quality Estimation Shared Task Julia Ive, Carolina Scarton, Frédéric Blain and Lucia Specia	pp. 807–813
pdf	bib	UAlacant machine translation quality estimation at WMT 2018: a simple approach using phrase tables and feed-forward neural networks Felipe Sánchez-Martínez, Miquel Esplà-Gomis and Mikel L. Forcada	pp. 814–821
pdf	bib	Alibaba Submission for WMT18 Quality Estimation Task Jiayi Wang, Kai Fan, Bo Li, Fengming Zhou, Boxing Chen, Yangbin Shi and Luo Si	pp. 822–828
pdf	bib	Quality Estimation with Force-Decoded Attention and Cross-lingual Embeddings Elizaveta Yankovskaya, Andre Tättar and Mark Fishel	pp. 829–834
Shared Task: Automatic Post-Editing
pdf	bib	MS-UEdin Submission to the WMT2018 APE Shared Task: Dual-Source Transformer for Automatic Post-Editing Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt and Roman Grundkiewicz	pp. 835–839
pdf	bib	A Transformer-Based Multi-Source Automatic Post-Editing System Santanu Pal, Nico Herbig, Antonio Krüger and Josef van Genabith	pp. 840–848
pdf	bib	DFKI-MLT System Description for the WMT18 Automatic Post-editing Task Daria Pylypenko and Raphael Rubino	pp. 849–852
pdf	bib	Multi-encoder Transformer Network for Automatic Post-Editing Jaehun Shin and Jong-Hyeok Lee	pp. 853–858
pdf	bib	Multi-source transformer with combined losses for automatic post editing Amirhossein Tebbifakhr, Ruchit Agrawal, Rajen Chatterjee, Matteo Negri and Marco Turchi	pp. 859–865
Shared Task: Parallel Corpus Filtering
pdf	bib	The Speechmatics Parallel Corpus Filtering System for WMT18 Tom Ash, Remi Francis and Will Williams	pp. 866–872
pdf	bib	STACC, OOV Density and N-gram Saturation: Vicomtech’s Participation in the WMT 2018 Shared Task on Parallel Corpus Filtering Andoni Azpeitia, Thierry Etchegoyhen and Eva Martínez garcia	pp. 873–879
pdf	bib	A hybrid pipeline of rules and machine learning to filter web-crawled parallel corpora Eduard Barbu and Verginica Barbu Mititelu	pp. 880–884
pdf	bib	Coverage and Cynicism: The AFRL Submission to the WMT 2018 Parallel Corpus Filtering Task Grant Erdmann and Jeremy Gwinnup	pp. 885–889
pdf	bib	MAJE Submission to the WMT2018 Shared Task on Parallel Corpus Filtering Marina Fomicheva and Jesús González-Rubio	pp. 890–894
pdf	bib	An Unsupervised System for Parallel Corpus Filtering Viktor Hangya and Alexander Fraser	pp. 895–900
pdf	bib	Dual Conditional Cross-Entropy Filtering of Noisy Parallel Corpora Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt	pp. 901–908
pdf	bib	The JHU Parallel Corpus Filtering Systems for WMT 2018 Huda Khayrallah, Hainan Xu and Philipp Koehn	pp. 909–912
pdf	bib	Measuring sentence parallelism using Mahalanobis distances: The NRC unsupervised submissions to the WMT18 Parallel Corpus Filtering shared task Patrick Littell, Samuel Larkin, Darlene Stewart, Michel Simard, Cyril Goutte and Chi-kiu Lo	pp. 913–920
pdf	bib	Accurate semantic textual similarity for cleaning noisy parallel corpora using semantic machine translation evaluation metric: The NRC supervised submissions to the Parallel Corpus Filtering task Chi-kiu Lo, Michel Simard, Darlene Stewart, Samuel Larkin, Cyril Goutte and Patrick Littell	pp. 921–929
pdf	bib	Alibaba Submission to the WMT18 Parallel Corpus Filtering Task Jun Lu, Xiaoyu Lv, Yangbin Shi and Boxing Chen	pp. 930–935
pdf	bib	UTFPR at WMT 2018: Minimalistic Supervised Corpora Filtering for Machine Translation Gustavo Paetzold	pp. 936–940
pdf	bib	The ILSP/ARC submission to the WMT 2018 Parallel Corpus Filtering Shared Task Vassilis Papavassiliou, Sokratis Sofianopoulos, Prokopis Prokopidis and Stelios Piperidis	pp. 941–946
pdf	bib	SYSTRAN Participation to the WMT2018 Shared Task on Parallel Corpus Filtering Minh Quang Pham, Josep Crego and Jean Senellart	pp. 947–951
pdf	bib	Tilde’s Parallel Corpus Filtering Methods for WMT 2018 Marcis Pinnis	pp. 952–958
pdf	bib	The RWTH Aachen University Filtering System for the WMT 2018 Parallel Corpus Filtering Task Nick Rossenbach, Jan Rosendahl, Yunsu Kim, Miguel Graça, Aman Gokrani and Hermann Ney	pp. 959–967
pdf	bib	Prompsit’s submission to WMT 2018 Parallel Corpus Filtering shared task Víctor M. Sánchez-Cartagena, Marta Bañón, Sergio Ortiz Rojas and Gema Ramírez	pp. 968–975
pdf	bib	NICT’s Corpus Filtering Systems for the WMT18 Parallel Corpus Filtering Task Rui Wang, Benjamin Marie, Masao Utiyama and Eiichiro Sumita	pp. 976–980