Isabel Slawik


2015

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Stripping Adjectives: Integration Techniques for Selective Stemming in SMT Systems
Isabel Slawik | Jan Niehues | Alex Waibel
Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation

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Stripping Adjectives: Integration Techniques for Selective Stemming in SMT Systems
Isabel Slawik | Jan Niehues | Alex Waibel
Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation

2014

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Combined spoken language translation
Markus Freitag | Joern Wuebker | Stephan Peitz | Hermann Ney | Matthias Huck | Alexandra Birch | Nadir Durrani | Philipp Koehn | Mohammed Mediani | Isabel Slawik | Jan Niehues | Eunach Cho | Alex Waibel | Nicola Bertoldi | Mauro Cettolo | Marcello Federico
Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign

EU-BRIDGE is a European research project which is aimed at developing innovative speech translation technology. One of the collaborative efforts within EU-BRIDGE is to produce joint submissions of up to four different partners to the evaluation campaign at the 2014 International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT). We submitted combined translations to the German→English spoken language translation (SLT) track as well as to the German→English, English→German and English→French machine translation (MT) tracks. In this paper, we present the techniques which were applied by the different individual translation systems of RWTH Aachen University, the University of Edinburgh, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, and Fondazione Bruno Kessler. We then show the combination approach developed at RWTH Aachen University which combined the individual systems. The consensus translations yield empirical gains of up to 2.3 points in BLEU and 1.2 points in TER compared to the best individual system.

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The KIT translation systems for IWSLT 2014
Isabel Slawik | Mohammed Mediani | Jan Niehues | Yuqi Zhang | Eunah Cho | Teresa Herrmann | Thanh-Le Ha | Alex Waibel
Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign

In this paper, we present the KIT systems participating in the TED translation tasks of the IWSLT 2014 machine translation evaluation. We submitted phrase-based translation systems for all three official directions, namely English→German, German→English, and English→French, as well as for the optional directions English→Chinese and English→Arabic. For the official directions we built systems both for the machine translation as well as the spoken language translation track. This year we improved our systems’ performance over last year through n-best list rescoring using neural network-based translation and language models and novel preordering rules based on tree information of multiple syntactic levels. Furthermore, we could successfully apply a novel phrase extraction algorithm and transliteration of unknown words for Arabic. We also submitted a contrastive system for German→English built with stemmed German adjectives. For the SLT tracks, we used a monolingual translation system to translate the lowercased ASR hypotheses with all punctuation stripped to truecased, punctuated output as a preprocessing step to our usual translation system.

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The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Translation Systems for the WMT 2014
Teresa Herrmann | Mohammed Mediani | Eunah Cho | Thanh-Le Ha | Jan Niehues | Isabel Slawik | Yuqi Zhang | Alex Waibel
Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation

2013

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The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Translation Systems for the WMT 2013
Eunah Cho | Thanh-Le Ha | Mohammed Mediani | Jan Niehues | Teresa Herrmann | Isabel Slawik | Alex Waibel
Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation

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The KIT translation systems for IWSLT 2013
Than-Le Ha | Teresa Herrmann | Jan Niehues | Mohammed Mediani | Eunah Cho | Yuqi Zhang | Isabel Slawik | Alex Waibel
Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign

In this paper, we present the KIT systems participating in all three official directions, namely English→German, German→English, and English→French, in translation tasks of the IWSLT 2013 machine translation evaluation. Additionally, we present the results for our submissions to the optional directions English→Chinese and English→Arabic. We used phrase-based translation systems to generate the translations. This year, we focused on adapting the systems towards ASR input. Furthermore, we investigated different reordering models as well as an extended discriminative word lexicon. Finally, we added a data selection approach for domain adaptation.