Jane: Open Source Machine Translation System Combination

Markus Freitag, Matthias Huck, Hermann Ney

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Abstract / Description of output

Different machine translation engines can be remarkably dissimilar not only with respect to their technical paradigm, but also with respect to the translation output they yield. System combination is a method for combining the output of multiple machine translation engines in order to take benefit of the strengths of each of the individual engines.

In this work we introduce a novel system combination implementation which is integrated into Jane, RWTH’s open source statistical machine translation toolkit. On the most recent Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation system combination shared task, we achieve improvements of up to 0.7 points in BLEU over the best system combination hypotheses which were submitted for the official evaluation. Moreover, we enhance our system combination pipeline with additional n-gram language models and lexical translation models.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the Demonstrations at the 14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Place of PublicationGothenburg, Sweden
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics
Pages29-32
Number of pages4
Publication statusPublished - 1 Apr 2014

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