Stanford University’s Chinese-to-English Statistical Machine Translation System for the 2008 NIST Evaluation
- Michel Galley ,
- Pi-Chuan Chang ,
- Daniel Cer ,
- Jenny R. Finkel ,
- Christopher D. Manning
The 2008 NIST Open Machine Translation Evaluation Meeting |
This document describes Stanford University’s first entry into a NIST MT evaluation. Our entry to the 2008 evaluation mainly focused on establishing a competent baseline with a phrase-based system similar to (Och and Ney, 2004; Koehn et al., 2007).