The Universitat d'Alacant hybrid machine translation system for WMT 2011

This paper describes the machine translation (MT) system developed by the Transducens Research Group, from Universitat d'Alacant, Spain, for the WMT 2011 shared translation task. We submitted a hybrid system for the Spanish--English language pair consisting of a phrase-based statistical MT system whose phrase table was enriched with bilingual phrase pairs matching transfer rules and dictionary entries from the Apertium shallow-transfer rule-based MT platform. Our hybrid system outperforms, in terms of BLEU, GTM and METEOR, a standard phrase-based statistical MT system trained on the same corpus, and received the second best BLEU score in the automatic evaluation.

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