The JHU Workshop 2006 IWSLT System
Wade Shen, Richard Zens, Nicola Bertoldi, Marcello Federico · RWTH Publications (RWTH Aachen) · 2006
This paper describes the SMT we built during the 2006 JHU Summer Workshop for the IWSLT 2006 evaluation.Our effort focuses on two parts of the speech translation problem: 1) efficient decoding of word lattices and 2) novel applications of factored translation models to IWSLT-specific problems.In this paper, we present results from the open-track Chinese-to-English condition.Improvements of 5-10% relative BLEU are obtained over a high performing baseline.We introduce a new open-source decoder that implements the state-of-the-art in statistical machine translation.