ISCA Archive IWSLT 2012
ISCA Archive IWSLT 2012

The TÜBİTAK statistical machine translation system for IWSLT 2012

Coşkun Mermer, Hamza Kaya, İlknur Durgar El-Kahlout, Mehmet Uğur Doğan

We describe the TÜBİTAK submission to the IWSLT 2012 Evaluation Campaign. Our system development focused on utilizing Bayesian alignment methods such as variational Bayes and Gibbs sampling in addition to the standard GIZA++ alignments. The submitted tracks are the Arabic- English and Turkish-English TED Talks translation tasks.