Stanford University’s Chinese-to-English Statistical Machine Translation System for the 2008 NIST Evaluation

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  • 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).