NIST Open Machine Translation 2008 Evaluation: Stanford University's System Description
Michel Galley, Pi-Chuan Chang, Daniel M. Cer, Jenny Rose Finkel, Christopher D. Manning · 2008
This document describes Stanford University’s first entry into a NIST MT evaluation. Our entry to the 2008 evaluation mainly focused on establishing a competent baseline with a phrase-based system similar to (Och and Ney, 2004; Koehn et al., 2007). In a three-week effort prior to the evaluation, our attention focused on scaling up our system to exploit nearly all Chinese-English parallel data permissible under the constrained track, incorporating competitive language models into the decoder using Gigaword and Google n-grams, evaluating Chinese word segmentation models, and incorporating a document classifier as a pre-processing stage to the decoder.