ISCA Archive IWSLT 2007
ISCA Archive IWSLT 2007

HKUST statistical machine translation experiments for IWSLT 2007

Yihai Shen, Chi-Kiu Lo, Marine Carpuat, Dekai Wu

This paper describes the HKUST experiments in the IWSLT 2007 evaluation campaign on spoken language translation. Our primary objective was to compare the open-source phrase-based statistical machine translation toolkit Moses against Pharaoh. We focused on Chinese to English translation, but we also report results on the Arabic to English, Italian to English, and Japanese to English tasks.