Shared Task: Statistical Machine Translation between European Languages

Philipp Koehn, Christof Monz

Abstract: The ACL-2005 Workshop on Parallel Texts hosted a shared task on building statistical machine translation systems for four European language pairs: French-English, German-English, Spanish-English, and Finnish-English. Eleven groups participated in the event. This paper describes the goals, the task definition and resources, as well as results and some analysis.