ISI's 2005 statistical machine translation entries.
Steve DeNeefe, Kevin K. Knight · 2005
ISI entered two statistical machine translation systems in the IWSLT evaluation this year: one was phrase-based and the other syntax-based. The syntax-based system represents the results of a current research effort, while the phrase-based system is representative of the current techniques in state-of-the-art machine translation. This paper primarily describes the syntax-based system and its comparison to the phrase-based system. We will give a brief overview of the com-ponents of the systems and discuss the performance on the IWSLT development data, the evaluation results, and some post-evaluation results. 1.