ISCA Archive IWSLT 2009
ISCA Archive IWSLT 2009

LIUM’s statistical machine translation systems for IWSLT 2009

Holger Schwenk, Loïc Barrault, Yannick Estève, Patrik Lambert

This paper describes the systems developed by the LIUM laboratory for the 2009 IWSLT evaluation. We participated in the Arabic and Chinese to English BTEC tasks. We developed three different systems: a statistical phrase-based system using the Moses toolkit, an Statistical Post-Editing system and a hierarchical phrase-based system based on Joshua. A continuous space language model was deployed to improve the modeling of the target language. These systems are combined by a confusion network based approach.