The University of Illinois submission to the WMT 2015 Shared Translation Task
Lane Schwartz, Bill Bryce, Chase Geigle, Sean Massung, Yisi Liu, Haoruo Peng, Vignesh Raja, Subhro Roy, Shyam Upadhyay · 2015
In this year's WMT translation task, Finnish-English was introduced as a language pair of competition for the first time.We present experiments examining several variations on a morphologically-aware statistical phrase-based machine translation system for translating Finnish into English.Our system variations attempt to mitigate the issue of rich agglutinative morphology when translating from Finnish into English.Our WMT submission for Finnish-English preprocesses Finnish data with omorfi (Pirinen, 2015), a Finnish morphological analyzer.We also present results for two other language pairs with morphologically interesting source languages, namely German-English and Czech-English.