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# Conference on Machine Translation: Shared Task Papers 2018 — accepted papers

Conference on Machine Translation: Shared Task Papers 2018 is the 2018 edition of the Conference on Machine Translation: Shared Task Papers, held in Belgium, Brussels, October 2018 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). OpenAlex lists 89 papers of it; our library holds 10 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

📍 Belgium, Brussels · 🗓 October 2018

[**89** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**10** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conference-on-machine-translation-shared-task-papers/2018/#works) · [**2,023** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conference-on-machine-translation-shared-task-papers/2018/#works)

## Most cited papers

By their OpenAlex citations; a paper with our summary links to its page here, the others to the original.

1. **[Findings of the 2018 Conference on Machine Translation (WMT18)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bojar-2018-findings-2018-conference-machine-translation/)**Ondřej Bojar, Christian Federmann, Mark Fishel et al. · Shared Task Papers*520 citations · our summary*
2. **[Findings of the Third Shared Task on Multimodal Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/barrault-2018-findings-third-shared-task-multimodal/)**Loïc Barrault, Fethi Bougares, Lucia Specia et al. · Shared Task Papers*141 citations · our summary*
3. **[Dual Conditional Cross-Entropy Filtering of Noisy Parallel Corpora](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dowmunt-2018-dual-conditional-cross-entropy-filtering/)**Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt · Shared Task Papers*102 citations · our summary*
4. **[Findings of the WMT 2018 Shared Task on Parallel Corpus Filtering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/koehn-2018-findings-wmt-2018-shared-task/)**Philipp Koehn, Huda Khayrallah, Kenneth Heafield et al. · Shared Task Papers*99 citations · our summary*
5. **[RUSE: Regressor Using Sentence Embeddings for Automatic Machine Translation Evaluation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shimanaka-2018-ruse-regressor-sentence-embeddings-automatic/)**Hiroki Shimanaka, Tomoyuki Kajiwara, Mamoru Komachi · Shared Task Papers*89 citations · our summary*
6. **[Results of the WMT18 Metrics Shared Task: Both characters and embeddings achieve good performance](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ma-2018-results-wmt18-metrics-shared-task/)**Qingsong Ma, Ondřej Bojar, Yvette Graham · Shared Task Papers*88 citations · our summary*
7. **[Findings of the WMT 2018 Shared Task on Quality Estimation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/specia-2018-findings-wmt-2018-shared-task/)**Lucia Specia, Frédéric Blain, Varvara Logacheva et al. · Shared Task Papers*75 citations · our summary*
8. **[CUNI System for the WMT18 Multimodal Translation Task ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6441/)**Jindřich Helcl, Jindřich Libovický, Dušan Variš · Shared Task Papers*61 citations*
9. **[The MeMAD Submission to the WMT18 Multimodal Translation Task ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6439/)**Stig-Arne Grönroos, Benoit Huet, Mikko Kurimo et al. · Shared Task Papers*61 citations*
10. **[Prompsit's submission to WMT 2018 Parallel Corpus Filtering shared task](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/cartagena-2018-prompsit-s-submission-wmt-2018/)**Víctor M. Sánchez-Cartagena, Marta Bañón, Sergio Ortiz-Rojas et al. · Shared Task Papers*41 citations · our summary*

## All accepted papers (89)

The most cited first; 10 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. **[Findings of the 2018 Conference on Machine Translation (WMT18)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bojar-2018-findings-2018-conference-machine-translation/)**Ondřej Bojar, Christian Federmann, Mark Fishel et al. · Shared Task Papers*520 citations · our summary*
2. **[Findings of the Third Shared Task on Multimodal Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/barrault-2018-findings-third-shared-task-multimodal/)**Loïc Barrault, Fethi Bougares, Lucia Specia et al. · Shared Task Papers*141 citations · our summary*
3. **[Dual Conditional Cross-Entropy Filtering of Noisy Parallel Corpora](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dowmunt-2018-dual-conditional-cross-entropy-filtering/)**Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt · Shared Task Papers*102 citations · our summary*
4. **[Findings of the WMT 2018 Shared Task on Parallel Corpus Filtering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/koehn-2018-findings-wmt-2018-shared-task/)**Philipp Koehn, Huda Khayrallah, Kenneth Heafield et al. · Shared Task Papers*99 citations · our summary*
5. **[RUSE: Regressor Using Sentence Embeddings for Automatic Machine Translation Evaluation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shimanaka-2018-ruse-regressor-sentence-embeddings-automatic/)**Hiroki Shimanaka, Tomoyuki Kajiwara, Mamoru Komachi · Shared Task Papers*89 citations · our summary*
6. **[Results of the WMT18 Metrics Shared Task: Both characters and embeddings achieve good performance](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ma-2018-results-wmt18-metrics-shared-task/)**Qingsong Ma, Ondřej Bojar, Yvette Graham · Shared Task Papers*88 citations · our summary*
7. **[Findings of the WMT 2018 Shared Task on Quality Estimation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/specia-2018-findings-wmt-2018-shared-task/)**Lucia Specia, Frédéric Blain, Varvara Logacheva et al. · Shared Task Papers*75 citations · our summary*
8. **[CUNI System for the WMT18 Multimodal Translation Task ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6441/)**Jindřich Helcl, Jindřich Libovický, Dušan Variš · Shared Task Papers*61 citations*
9. **[The MeMAD Submission to the WMT18 Multimodal Translation Task ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6439/)**Stig-Arne Grönroos, Benoit Huet, Mikko Kurimo et al. · Shared Task Papers*61 citations*
10. **[Prompsit's submission to WMT 2018 Parallel Corpus Filtering shared task](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/cartagena-2018-prompsit-s-submission-wmt-2018/)**Víctor M. Sánchez-Cartagena, Marta Bañón, Sergio Ortiz-Rojas et al. · Shared Task Papers*41 citations · our summary*
11. **[Microsoft's Submission to the WMT2018 News Translation Task: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Data ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6415/)**Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt · Shared Task Papers*39 citations*
12. **[Alibaba Submission for WMT18 Quality Estimation Task ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6465/)**Jiayi Wang, Kai Fan, Bo Li et al. · Shared Task Papers*38 citations*
13. **[Neural Machine Translation for English-Tamil ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6459/)**Himanshu Choudhary, Aditya Kumar Pathak, Rajiv Ratan Saha et al. · Shared Task Papers*37 citations*
14. **[A Pronoun Test Suite Evaluation of the English–German MT Systems at WMT 2018 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6435/)**Liane Guillou, Christian Hardmeier, Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski et al. · Shared Task Papers*35 citations*
15. **[CUNI Transformer Neural MT System for WMT18](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/popel-2018-cuni-transformer-neural-mt-system/)**Martin Popel · Shared Task Papers*34 citations · our summary*
16. **[Accurate semantic textual similarity for cleaning noisy parallel corpora using semantic machine translation evaluation metric: The NRC supervised submissions to the Parallel Corpus Filtering task ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6481/)**Chi-kiu Lo, Michel Simard, Darlene Stewart et al. · Shared Task Papers*33 citations*
17. **[Alibaba Submission to the WMT18 Parallel Corpus Filtering Task ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6482/)**Jun Lu, Xiaoyu Lv, Yangbin Shi et al. · Shared Task Papers*33 citations*
18. **[The Word Sense Disambiguation Test Suite at WMT18 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6437/)**Annette Rios, Mathias Müller, Rico Sennrich · Shared Task Papers*27 citations*
19. **[Sheffield Submissions for WMT18 Multimodal Translation Shared Task ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6442/)**Chiraag Lala, Pranava Swaroop Madhyastha, Carolina Scarton et al. · Shared Task Papers*26 citations*
20. **[Alibaba's Neural Machine Translation Systems for WMT18 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6408/)**Yongchao Deng, Shanbo Cheng, Jun Lu et al. · Shared Task Papers*23 citations*
21. **[Findings of the WMT 2018 Shared Task on Automatic Post-Editing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chatterjee-2018-findings-wmt-2018-shared-task/)**Rajen Chatterjee, Matteo Negri, Raphael Rubino et al. · Shared Task Papers*23 citations · our summary*
22. **[The University of Cambridge's Machine Translation Systems for WMT18 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6427/)**Felix Stahlberg, Adrià de Gispert, Bill Byrne · Shared Task Papers*22 citations*
23. **[The RWTH Aachen University Filtering System for the WMT 2018 Parallel Corpus Filtering Task ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6487/)**Nick Rossenbach, Jan Rosendahl, Yunsu Kim et al. · Shared Task Papers*20 citations*
24. **[NICT's Neural and Statistical Machine Translation Systems for the WMT18 News Translation Task ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6419/)**Benjamin Marie, Rui Wang, Atsushi Fujita et al. · Shared Task Papers*19 citations*
25. **[A Transformer-Based Multi-Source Automatic Post-Editing System ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6468/)**Santanu Pal, Nico Herbig, Antonio Krüger et al. · Shared Task Papers*16 citations*

[See all 89 papers in Conference on Machine Translation: Shared Task Papers 2018 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conference-on-machine-translation-shared-task-papers/2018/papers/)

## Papers with our summary in our library (10)

The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's).

1. **[Findings of the 2018 Conference on Machine Translation (WMT18)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bojar-2018-findings-2018-conference-machine-translation/) [Conference on Machine Translation: Shared Task Papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conference-on-machine-translation-shared-task-papers/)**Ondřej Bojar, Christian Federmann, Mark Fishel, et al.*2018 · 753 citations*
2. **[Findings of the Third Shared Task on Multimodal Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/barrault-2018-findings-third-shared-task-multimodal/) [Conference on Machine Translation: Shared Task Papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conference-on-machine-translation-shared-task-papers/)**Loïc Barrault, Fethi Bougares, Lucia Specia, et al.*2018 · 230 citations*
3. **[Dual Conditional Cross-Entropy Filtering of Noisy Parallel Corpora](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dowmunt-2018-dual-conditional-cross-entropy-filtering/) [Conference on Machine Translation: Shared Task Papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conference-on-machine-translation-shared-task-papers/)**Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt*2018 · 200 citations*
4. **[Findings of the WMT 2018 Shared Task on Parallel Corpus Filtering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/koehn-2018-findings-wmt-2018-shared-task/) [Conference on Machine Translation: Shared Task Papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conference-on-machine-translation-shared-task-papers/)**Philipp Koehn, Huda Khayrallah, Kenneth Heafield, et al.*2018 · 181 citations*
5. **[Results of the WMT18 Metrics Shared Task: Both characters and embeddings achieve good performance](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ma-2018-results-wmt18-metrics-shared-task/) [Conference on Machine Translation: Shared Task Papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conference-on-machine-translation-shared-task-papers/)**Qingsong Ma, Ondřej Bojar, Yvette Graham*2018 · 165 citations*
6. **[RUSE: Regressor Using Sentence Embeddings for Automatic Machine Translation Evaluation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shimanaka-2018-ruse-regressor-sentence-embeddings-automatic/) [Conference on Machine Translation: Shared Task Papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conference-on-machine-translation-shared-task-papers/)**Hiroki Shimanaka, Tomoyuki Kajiwara, Mamoru Komachi*2018 · 141 citations*
7. **[Findings of the WMT 2018 Shared Task on Quality Estimation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/specia-2018-findings-wmt-2018-shared-task/) [Conference on Machine Translation: Shared Task Papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conference-on-machine-translation-shared-task-papers/)**Lucia Specia, Frédéric Blain, Varvara Logacheva, et al.*2018 · 134 citations*
8. **[Prompsit's submission to WMT 2018 Parallel Corpus Filtering shared task](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/cartagena-2018-prompsit-s-submission-wmt-2018/) [Conference on Machine Translation: Shared Task Papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conference-on-machine-translation-shared-task-papers/)**Víctor M. Sánchez-Cartagena, Marta Bañón, Sergio Ortiz-Rojas, et al.*2018 · 92 citations*
9. **[Findings of the WMT 2018 Shared Task on Automatic Post-Editing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chatterjee-2018-findings-wmt-2018-shared-task/) [Conference on Machine Translation: Shared Task Papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conference-on-machine-translation-shared-task-papers/)**Rajen Chatterjee, Matteo Negri, Raphael Rubino, et al.*2018 · 66 citations*
10. **[CUNI Transformer Neural MT System for WMT18](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/popel-2018-cuni-transformer-neural-mt-system/) [Conference on Machine Translation: Shared Task Papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conference-on-machine-translation-shared-task-papers/)**Martin Popel*2018 · 61 citations*

## Top topics

Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

[Machine translation (10)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks (6)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Coreference resolution (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/coreference-resolution/) · [Vision & language (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/)

## Fields

[Arts and Humanities (10)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (10)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/)

## Top authors

Authors with a page who published here most often: their works here, and the citations of those works.

[🧑‍🔬**Philipp Koehn**2 works here · 934 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/philipp-koehn/) · [🧑‍🔬**Ondřej Bojar**2 works here · 918 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ondrej-bojar/) · [🧑‍🔬**Yvette Graham**2 works here · 918 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yvette-graham/) · [🧑‍🔬**Lucia Specia**2 works here · 364 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lucia-specia/) · [🧑‍🔬**Barry Haddow**1 work here · 753 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/barry-haddow/) · [🧑‍🔬**Christian Federmann**1 work here · 753 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christian-federmann/) · [🧑‍🔬**Christof Monz**1 work here · 753 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christof-monz/) · [🧑‍🔬**Mark Fishel**1 work here · 753 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mark-fishel/) · [🧑‍🔬**Matthias Huck**1 work here · 753 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/matthias-huck/) · [🧑‍🔬**Desmond Elliott**1 work here · 230 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/desmond-elliott/) · [🧑‍🔬**Fethi Bougares**1 work here · 230 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fethi-bougares/) · [🧑‍🔬**Loïc Barrault**1 work here · 230 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/loic-barrault/)

## Top institutions

Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works.

[🎓**Charles University** Prague · Czechia 3 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/charles-university/) · [🎓**University of Edinburgh** Edinburgh · United Kingdom 3 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-edinburgh/) · [🏢**Microsoft** Redmond · United States 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/microsoft/) · [🔬**German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence** Kaiserslautern · Germany 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/german-research-centre-for-artificial-intelligence/) · [🎓**Dublin City University** Dublin · Ireland 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/dublin-city-university/) · [🎓**University of Amsterdam** Amsterdam · Netherlands 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-amsterdam/) · [🎓**University of Sheffield** Sheffield · United Kingdom 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-sheffield/) · [🔬**Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento** Lisbon · Portugal 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/instituto-de-engenharia-de-sistemas-e-computadores-investigacao-e/) · [🎓**University of Copenhagen** Copenhagen · Denmark 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-copenhagen/) · [🎓**University of Alicante** Alicante · Spain 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-alicante/) · [🎓**Johns Hopkins University** Baltimore · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/johns-hopkins-university/) · [🎓**Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology** Dolgoprudny · Russia 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/moscow-institute-of-physics-and-technology/)

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