Liling Tan

Passive and Pervasive Use of Bilingual Dictionary in Statistical Machine Translation

2015

There are two primary approaches to the use bilingual dictionary in statistical machine translation: (i) the passive approach of appending the parallel training data with a bilingual dictionary and (ii) the pervasive approach of enforcing …

An Awkward Disparity between BLEU / RIBES Scores and Human Judgements in Machine Translation

2015

Automatic evaluation of machine translation (MT) quality is essential in developing high quality MT systems. Despite previous criticisms, BLEU remains the most popular machine translation metric. Previous studies on the schism between BLEU and manual …

Overview of the DSL Shared Task 2015

2015

We present the results of the 2nd edition of the Discriminating between Similar Lan-guages (DSL) shared task, which was or-ganized as part of the LT4VarDial’2015 workshop and focused on the identifica-tion of very similar languages …