Liane Guillou

Findings of the 2016 WMT Shared Task on Cross-lingual Pronoun Prediction

We describe the design, the evaluation setup, and the results of the 2016 WMT shared task on cross-lingual pronoun prediction. This is a classification task in which participants are asked to provi ...

Automatic Post-Editing for the DiscoMT Pronoun Translation Task

This paper describes an automated postediting submission to the DiscoMT 2015 shared task on pronoun translation. Postediting is achieved by applying pronounspecific rules to the output of an Englishto-French phrase-based SMT system.

Analysing ParCor and its Translations by State-of-the-art SMT Systems

Previous work on pronouns in SMT has focussed on third-person pronouns, treating them all as anaphoric. Little attention has been paid to other uses or other types of pronouns. Believing that further progress requires careful analysis of pronouns as a whole, we have analysed a parallel corpus of annotated English-German texts to highlight some of the problems that hinder progress. We combine this with an assessment of the ability of two state-of-the-art systems to translate different pronoun types.