Thursday, June 19, 2008 |
| 8:40–8:50 | Opening Remarks |
| | Session 1: Full Papers |
| 8:50–9:10 | An Empirical Study in Source Word Deletion for Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation
Chi-Ho Li, Hailei Zhang, Dongdong Zhang, Mu Li and Ming Zhou |
| 9:10–9:30 | Rich Source-Side Context for Statistical Machine Translation
Kevin Gimpel and Noah A. Smith |
| 9:30–9:50 | Discriminative Word Alignment via Alignment Matrix Modeling
Jan Niehues and Stephan Vogel |
| 9:50–10:10 | Regularization and Search for Minimum Error Rate Training
Daniel Cer, Daniel Jurafsky and Christopher Manning |
| 10:10–10:30 | Learning Performance of a Machine Translation System: a Statistical and Computational Analysis
Marco Turchi, Tijl De Bie and Nello Cristianini |
| 10:30–11:00 | Coffee Break |
| | Session 2: Full Papers |
| 11:00–11:20 | Using Syntax to Improve Word Alignment Precision for Syntax-Based Machine Translation
Victoria Fossum, Kevin Knight and Steven Abney |
| 11:20–11:40 | Using Shallow Syntax Information to Improve Word Alignment and Reordering for SMT
Josep M. Crego and Nizar Habash |
| 11:40–12:00 | Improved Tree-to-String Transducer for Machine Translation
Ding Liu and Daniel Gildea |
| 12:00-12:40 | Invited Talk by Daniel Marcu |
| 12:40-2:00 | Lunch |
| | Session 3: Shared Task |
| 2:00-2:30 | Further Meta-Evaluation of Machine Translation
Chris Callison-Burch, Cameron Fordyce, Philipp Koehn, Christof Monz and Josh Schroeder |
| 2:30–2:40 | Limsi’s Statistical Translation Systems for WMT’08
Daniel Déchelotte, Gilles Adda, Alexandre Allauzen, Hélène Bonneau-Maynard, Olivier Galibert, Jean-Luc Gauvain, Philippe Langlais and François Yvon |
| 2:40–2:50 | The MetaMorpho Translation System
Attila Novák, László Tihanyi and Gábor Prószéky |
| 2:50–3:00 | Meteor, M-BLEU and M-TER: Evaluation Metrics for High-Correlation with Human Rankings of Machine Translation Output
Abhaya Agarwal and Alon Lavie |
| 3:00-3:30 | Booster Session: Shared Task |
| | Shared Translaton Task |
| | First Steps towards a General Purpose French/English Statistical Machine Translation System
Holger Schwenk, Jean-Baptiste Fouet and Jean Senellart |
| | The University of Washington Machine Translation System for ACL WMT 2008
Amittai Axelrod, Mei Yang, Kevin Duh and Katrin Kirchhoff |
| | The TALP-UPC Ngram-Based Statistical Machine Translation System for ACL-WMT 2008
Maxim Khalilov, Adolfo Hernández H., Marta R. Costa-jussà, Josep M. Crego, Carlos A. Henríquez Q., Patrik Lambert, José A. R. Fonollosa, José B. Mariño and Rafael E. Banchs |
| | European Language Translation with Weighted Finite State Transducers: The CUED MT System for the 2008 ACL Workshop on SMT
Graeme Blackwood, Adrià de Gispert, Jamie Brunning and William Byrne |
| | Effects of Morphological Analysis in Translation between German and English
Sara Stymne, Maria Holmqvist and Lars Ahrenberg |
| | Towards better Machine Translation Quality for the German-English Language Pairs
Philipp Koehn, Abhishek Arun and Hieu Hoang |
| | Phrase-Based and Deep Syntactic English-to-Czech Statistical Machine Translation
Ondrej Bojar and Jan Hajic |
| | Improving English-Spanish Statistical Machine Translation: Experiments in Domain Adaptation, Sentence Paraphrasing, Tokenization, and Recasing
Preslav Nakov |
| | Improving Word Alignment with Language Model Based Confidence Scores
Nguyen Bach, Qin Gao and Stephan Vogel |
| | Kernel Regression Framework for Machine Translation: UCL System Description for WMT 2008 Shared Translation Task
Zhuoran Wang and John Shawe-Taylor |
| | Using Syntactic Coupling Features for Discriminating Phrase-Based Translations (WMT-08 Shared Translation Task)
Vassilina Nikoulina and Marc Dymetman |
| | Statistical Transfer Systems for French-English and German-English Machine Translation
Greg Hanneman, Edmund Huber, Abhaya Agarwal, Vamshi Ambati, Alok Parlikar, Erik Peterson and Alon Lavie |
| | TectoMT: Highly Modular MT System with Tectogrammatics Used as Transfer Layer
Zdenek Zabokrtsky, Jan Ptacek and Petr Pajas |
| | MaTrEx: The DCU MT System for WMT 2008
John Tinsley, Yanjun Ma, Sylwia Ozdowska and Andy Way |
| | Can we Relearn an RBMT System?
Loïc Dugast, Jean Senellart and Philipp Koehn |
| | Using Moses to Integrate Multiple Rule-Based Machine Translation Engines into a Hybrid System
Andreas Eisele, Christian Federmann, Hervé Saint-Amand, Michael Jellinghaus, Teresa Herrmann and Yu Chen |
| | Incremental Hypothesis Alignment for Building Confusion Networks with Application to Machine Translation System Combination
Antti-Veikko Rosti, Bing Zhang, Spyros Matsoukas and Richard Schwartz |
| | Shared Evaluation Task |
| | The Role of Pseudo References in MT Evaluation
Joshua Albrecht and Rebecca Hwa |
| | Ranking vs. Regression in Machine Translation Evaluation
Kevin Duh |
| | A Smorgasbord of Features for Automatic MT Evaluation
Jesus Gimenez and Lluis Marquez |
| 3:30-4:40 | Coffee Break and Poster Session |
| | Session 4: Full Papers |
| 4:40–5:00 | Fast, Easy, and Cheap: Construction of Statistical Machine Translation Models with MapReduce
Chris Dyer, Aaron Cordova, Alex Mont and Jimmy Lin |
| 5:00–5:20 | Dynamic Model Interpolation for Statistical Machine Translation
Andrew Finch and Eiichiro Sumita |
| 5:20–5:40 | Improved Statistical Machine Translation by Multiple Chinese Word Segmentation
Ruiqiang Zhang, Keiji Yasuda and Eiichiro Sumita |
| 5:40–6:00 | Optimizing Chinese Word Segmentation for Machine Translation Performance
Pi-Chuan Chang, Michel Galley and Christopher Manning |