Teresa Herrmann

Using Moses to Integrate Multiple Rule-Based Machine Translation Engines into a Hybrid System

Based on an architecture that allows to combine statistical machine translation (SMT) with rule-based machine translation (RBMT) in a multi-engine setup, we present new results that show that this type of system combination can actually increase the lexical coverage of the resulting hybrid system, at least as far as this can be measured via BLEU score.

EU-BRIDGE MT: Combined Machine Translation

This paper describes one of the collaborative efforts within EU-BRIDGE to further advance the state of the art in machine translation between two European language pairs, German→English and English→German. Three research institutes involved in the EU-BRIDGE project combined their individual machine translation systems and participated with a joint setup in the shared translation task of the evaluation campaign at the ACL 2014 Eighth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation (WMT 2014). We combined up to nine different machine translation engines via system combination. RWTH Aachen University, the University of Edinburgh, and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology developed several individual systems which serve as system combination input. We devoted special attention to building syntax-based systems and combining them with the phrasebased ones. The joint setups yield empirical gains of up to 1.6 points in BLEU and 1.0 points in TER on the WMT newstest2013 test set compared to the best single systems.

The Universit"at Karlsruhe Translation System for the EACL-WMT 2009

In this paper we describe the statistical machine translation system of the Universitat Karlsruhe developed for the translation task of the Fourth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation. The state-of-the-art phrase-based SMT system is augmented with alternative word reordering and alignment mechanisms as well as optional phrase table modifications. We participate in the constrained condition of German-English and English-German as well as in the constrained condition of French-English and English-French.