Findings of the 2016 Conference on Machine Translation (WMT16)

Ondrej Bojar; Rajen Chatterjee; Christian Federmann; Yvette Graham; Barry Haddow; Matthias Huck; Antonio Jimeno Yepes; Philipp Koehn; Varvara Logacheva; Christof Monz; Matteo Negri; Aurelie Neveol; Mariana Neves; Martin Popel; Matt Post; Raphael Rubino; Carolina Scarton; Lucia Specia; Marco Turchi; Karin Verspoor; Marcos Zampieri

doi:10.18653/v1/W16-2301

Findings of the 2016 Conference on Machine Translation (WMT16)

Ondrej Bojar, Rajen Chatterjee, Christian Federmann, Yvette Graham, Barry Haddow, Matthias Huck, Antonio Jimeno Yepes, Philipp Koehn, Varvara Logacheva, Christof Monz, Matteo Negri, Aurelie Neveol, Mariana Neves, Martin Popel, Matt Post, Raphael Rubino, Carolina Scarton, Lucia Specia, Marco Turchi, Karin VerspoorMarcos Zampieri

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This paper presents the results of the WMT16 shared tasks, which included five machine translation (MT) tasks (standard news, IT-domain, biomedical, multimodal, pronoun), three evaluation tasks (metrics, tuning, run-time estimation of MT quality), and an automatic post-editing task and bilingual document alignment task. This year, 102 MT systems from 24 institutions (plus 36 anonymized online systems) were submitted to the 12 translation directions in the news translation task. The IT-domain task received 31 submissions from 12 institutions in 7 directions and the Biomedical task received 15 submissions systems from 5 institutions. Evaluation was both automatic and manual (relative ranking and 100-point scale assessments). The quality estimation task had three subtasks, with a total of 14 teams, submitting 39 entries. The automatic post-editing task had a total of 6 teams, submitting 11 entries.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the First Conference on Machine Translation, Volume 2: Shared Task Papers
Place of Publication	Berlin, Germany
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics
Pages	131-198
Number of pages	68
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-945626-10-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/W16-2301
Publication status	Published - 12 Aug 2016
Event	First Conference on Machine Translation - Berlin, Germany Duration: 11 Aug 2016 → 12 Aug 2016 http://www.statmt.org/wmt16/

Conference

Conference	First Conference on Machine Translation
Abbreviated title	WMT16
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Berlin
Period	11/08/16 → 12/08/16
Internet address	http://www.statmt.org/wmt16/

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QT21: Quality Translation 21
Koehn, P., Haddow, B. & Huck, M.
EU government bodies
1/02/15 → 31/01/18
Project: Research
CRACKER-Cracking the Language Barrier:
Koehn, P. & Haddow, B.
EU government bodies
1/01/15 → 31/12/17
Project: Research
MosesCore Co-ord - 'Moses Open Source Evaluation and Support Co-ordination for OutReach and Exploitation'
Koehn, P.
EU government bodies
1/02/12 → 31/01/15
Project: Research

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Bojar, O., Chatterjee, R., Federmann, C., Graham, Y., Haddow, B., Huck, M., Jimeno Yepes, A., Koehn, P., Logacheva, V., Monz, C., Negri, M., Neveol, A., Neves, M., Popel, M., Post, M., Rubino, R., Scarton, C., Specia, L., Turchi, M., ... Zampieri, M. (2016). Findings of the 2016 Conference on Machine Translation (WMT16). In Proceedings of the First Conference on Machine Translation, Volume 2: Shared Task Papers (pp. 131-198). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/W16-2301

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Findings of the 2016 Conference on Machine Translation (WMT16). / Bojar, Ondrej; Chatterjee, Rajen; Federmann, Christian et al.
Proceedings of the First Conference on Machine Translation, Volume 2: Shared Task Papers. Berlin, Germany: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2016. p. 131-198.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

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QT21: Quality Translation 21

CRACKER-Cracking the Language Barrier:

MosesCore Co-ord - 'Moses Open Source Evaluation and Support Co-ordination for OutReach and Exploitation'

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