Overview of the 3rd Workshop on Asian Translation

Toshiaki Nakazawa, Chenchen Ding, Hideya Mino, Isao Goto, Graham Neubig, Sadao Kurohashi

Abstract: This paper presents the results of the shared tasks from the 3rd workshop on Asian translation (WAT2016) including J ↔ E, J ↔ C scientific paper translation subtasks, C ↔ J, K ↔ J, E ↔ J patent translation subtasks, I ↔ E newswire subtasks and H ↔ E, H ↔ J mixed domain subtasks. For the WAT2016, 15 institutions participated in the shared tasks. About 500 translation results have been submitted to the automatic evaluation server, and selected submissions were manually evaluated.