Pronoun-Focused MT and Cross-Lingual Pronoun Prediction: Findings of the 2015 DiscoMT Shared Task on Pronoun Translation

Christian Hardmeier; Preslav Nakov; Sara Stymne; Jörg Tiedemann; Yannick Versley; Mauro Cettolo

doi:10.18653/v1/W15-2501

Pronoun-Focused MT and Cross-Lingual Pronoun Prediction: Findings of the 2015 DiscoMT Shared Task on Pronoun Translation

Christian Hardmeier, Preslav Nakov, Sara Stymne, Jörg Tiedemann, Yannick Versley, Mauro Cettolo

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We describe the design, the evaluation setup, and the results of the DiscoMT 2015 shared task, which included two sub-tasks, relevant to both the machine translation (MT) and the discourse communities: (i) pronoun-focused translation, a practical MT task, and (ii) cross-lingual pronoun prediction, a classification task that requires no specific MT expertise and is interesting as a machine learning task in its own right. We focused on the English–French language pair, for which MT output is generally of high quality, but has visible issues with pronoun translation due to differences in the pronoun systems of the two languages. Six groups participated in the pronoun-focused translation task and eight groups in the cross-lingual pronoun prediction task.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Discourse in Machine Translation
Place of Publication	Lisbon, Portugal
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics
Pages	1-16
Number of pages	16
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-941643-32-7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/W15-2501
Publication status	Published - 21 Sept 2015
Event	Second Workshop on Discourse in Machine Translation - Lisbon, Portugal Duration: 17 Sept 2015 → 17 Sept 2015 http://www.emnlp2015.org/proceedings/DiscoMT/index.html

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Workshop	Second Workshop on Discourse in Machine Translation
Abbreviated title	DiscoMT 2015
Country/Territory	Portugal
City	Lisbon
Period	17/09/15 → 17/09/15
Internet address	http://www.emnlp2015.org/proceedings/DiscoMT/index.html

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Hardmeier, C., Nakov, P., Stymne, S., Tiedemann, J., Versley, Y., & Cettolo, M. (2015). Pronoun-Focused MT and Cross-Lingual Pronoun Prediction: Findings of the 2015 DiscoMT Shared Task on Pronoun Translation. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Discourse in Machine Translation (pp. 1-16). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/W15-2501

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Hardmeier, C, Nakov, P, Stymne, S, Tiedemann, J, Versley, Y & Cettolo, M 2015, Pronoun-Focused MT and Cross-Lingual Pronoun Prediction: Findings of the 2015 DiscoMT Shared Task on Pronoun Translation. in Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Discourse in Machine Translation. Association for Computational Linguistics, Lisbon, Portugal, pp. 1-16, Second Workshop on Discourse in Machine Translation , Lisbon, Portugal, 17/09/15. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/W15-2501

Pronoun-Focused MT and Cross-Lingual Pronoun Prediction: Findings of the 2015 DiscoMT Shared Task on Pronoun Translation. / Hardmeier, Christian; Nakov, Preslav; Stymne, Sara et al.
Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Discourse in Machine Translation. Lisbon, Portugal: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2015. p. 1-16.

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