Recent Improvements in the CMU Large Scale Chinese-English SMT System

Almut Silja Hildebrand, Kay Rottmann, Mohamed Noamany, Quin Gao, Sanjika Hewavitharana, Nguyen Bach, Stephan Vogel

Abstract: In this paper we describe recent improvements to components and methods used in our statistical machine translation system for Chinese-English used in the January 2008 GALE evaluation. Main improvements are results of consistent data processing, larger statistical models and a POS-based word reordering approach.