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

89 papers · the most cited first · [← Conference on Machine Translation: Shared Task Papers 2018](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conference-on-machine-translation-shared-task-papers/2018/)

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*
26. **[Multi-source transformer with combined losses for automatic post editing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6471/)**Amirhossein Tebbifakhr, Ruchit Agrawal, Matteo Negri et al. · Shared Task Papers*16 citations*
27. **[The University of Edinburgh's Submissions to the WMT18 News Translation Task ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6412/)**Barry Haddow, Nikolay Bogoychev, Denis Emelin et al. · Shared Task Papers*16 citations*
28. **[Tilde's Parallel Corpus Filtering Methods for WMT 2018 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6486/)**Mārcis Pinnis · Shared Task Papers*16 citations*
29. **[Fine-grained evaluation of German-English Machine Translation based on a Test Suite ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6436/)**Vivien Macketanz, Eleftherios Avramidis, Aljoscha Burchardt et al. · Shared Task Papers*14 citations*
30. **[Neural Machine Translation with the Transformer and Multi-Source Romance Languages for the Biomedical WMT 2018 task ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6449/)**Brian Tubay, Marta R. Costa-jussà · Shared Task Papers*14 citations*
31. **[Tencent Neural Machine Translation Systems for WMT18 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6429/)**Mingxuan Wang, Li Gong, Wenhuan Zhu et al. · Shared Task Papers*14 citations*
32. **[The WMT'18 Morpheval test suites for English-Czech, English-German, English-Finnish and Turkish-English ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6433/)**Franck Burlot, Yves Scherrer, Vinit Ravishankar et al. · Shared Task Papers*14 citations*
33. **[Tilde's Machine Translation Systems for WMT 2018 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6423/)**Mārcis Pinnis, Matīss Rikters, Rihards Krišlauks · Shared Task Papers*14 citations*
34. **[Ensemble Sequence Level Training for Multimodal MT: OSU-Baidu WMT18 Multimodal Machine Translation System Report ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6443/)**Renjie Zheng, Yilin Yang, Mingbo Ma et al. · Shared Task Papers*13 citations*
35. **[Hunter NMT System for WMT18 Biomedical Translation Task: Transfer Learning in Neural Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6447/)**Abdul Khan, Subhadarshi Panda, Jia Xu et al. · Shared Task Papers*13 citations*
36. **[ITER: Improving Translation Edit Rate through Optimizable Edit Costs ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6455/)**Joybrata Panja, Sudip Kumar Naskar · Shared Task Papers*13 citations*
37. **[Multi-encoder Transformer Network for Automatic Post-Editing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6470/)**Jaehun Shin, Jong-Hyeok Lee · Shared Task Papers*13 citations*
38. **[Cognate-aware morphological segmentation for multilingual neural translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6410/)**Stig-Arne Grönroos, Sami Virpioja, Mikko Kurimo · Shared Task Papers*12 citations*
39. **[Findings of the WMT 2018 Biomedical Translation Shared Task: Evaluation on Medline test sets ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6403/)**Mariana Neves, Antonio Jimeno Yepes, Aurélie Névéol et al. · Shared Task Papers*12 citations*
40. **[The NiuTrans Machine Translation System for WMT18 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6430/)**Qiang Wang, Bei Li, Jiqiang Liu et al. · Shared Task Papers*12 citations*
41. **[Supervised and Unsupervised Minimalist Quality Estimators: Vicomtech's Participation in the WMT 2018 Quality Estimation Task ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6461/)**Thierry Etchegoyhen, Eva Martínez Garcia, Andoni Azpeitia · Shared Task Papers*11 citations*
42. **[The RWTH Aachen University Supervised Machine Translation Systems for WMT 2018 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6426/)**Julian Schamper, Jan Rosendahl, Parnia Bahar et al. · Shared Task Papers*11 citations*
43. **[Meteor++: Incorporating Copy Knowledge into Machine Translation Evaluation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6454/)**Yinuo Guo, Chong Ruan, Junfeng Hu · Shared Task Papers*10 citations*
44. **[NTT's Neural Machine Translation Systems for WMT 2018 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6421/)**Makoto Morishita, Jun Suzuki, Masaaki Nagata · Shared Task Papers*10 citations*
45. **[Quality Estimation with Force-Decoded Attention and Cross-lingual Embeddings ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6466/)**Elizaveta Yankovskaya, Andre Tättar, Mark Fishel · Shared Task Papers*10 citations*
46. **[The JHU Machine Translation Systems for WMT 2018 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6417/)**Philipp Koehn, Kevin Duh, Brian Thompson · Shared Task Papers*10 citations*
47. **[An Empirical Study of Machine Translation for the Shared Task of WMT18 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6404/)**Chao Bei, Hao Zong, Yiming Wang et al. · Shared Task Papers*9 citations*
48. **[LIUM-CVC Submissions for WMT18 Multimodal Translation Task ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6438/)**Ozan Caglayan, Adrien Bardet, Fethi Bougares et al. · Shared Task Papers*9 citations*
49. **[LMU Munich's Neural Machine Translation Systems at WMT 2018 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6446/)**Matthias Huck, Dario Stojanovski, Viktor Hangya et al. · Shared Task Papers*9 citations*
50. **[The JHU Parallel Corpus Filtering Systems for WMT 2018 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6479/)**Huda Khayrallah, Hainan Xu, Philipp Koehn · Shared Task Papers*9 citations*
51. **[Measuring sentence parallelism using Mahalanobis distances: The NRC unsupervised submissions to the WMT18 Parallel Corpus Filtering shared task ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6480/)**Patrick Littell, Samuel Larkin, Darlene Stewart et al. · Shared Task Papers*8 citations*
52. **[An Unsupervised System for Parallel Corpus Filtering ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6477/)**Viktor Hangya, Alexander Fraser · Shared Task Papers*7 citations*
53. **[EvalD Reference-Less Discourse Evaluation for WMT18 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6432/)**Ondřej Bojar, Jiří Mírovský, Kateřina Rysová et al. · Shared Task Papers*7 citations*
54. **[CUNI Submissions in WMT18 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6416/)**Tom Kocmi, Roman Sudarikov, Ondřej Bojar · Shared Task Papers*6 citations*
55. **[Coverage and Cynicism: The AFRL Submission to the WMT 2018 Parallel Corpus Filtering Task ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6475/)**Grant Erdmann, Jeremy Gwinnup · Shared Task Papers*6 citations*
56. **[RTM results for Predicting Translation Performance ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6458/)**Ergun Biçici · Shared Task Papers*6 citations*
57. **[The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Systems for the News Translation Task in WMT 2018 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6422/)**Ngoc-Quan Pham, Jan Niehues, Alexander Waibel · Shared Task Papers*6 citations*
58. **[The MLLP-UPV German-English Machine Translation System for WMT18 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6414/)**Javier Iranzo-Sánchez, Pau Baquero-Arnal, Gonçal V. Garcés Díaz-Munío et al. · Shared Task Papers*6 citations*
59. **[The Speechmatics Parallel Corpus Filtering System for WMT18 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6472/)**Tom Ash, Remi Francis, Will Williams · Shared Task Papers*6 citations*
60. **[The University of Maryland's Chinese-English Neural Machine Translation Systems at WMT18 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6431/)**Weijia Xu, Marine Carpuat · Shared Task Papers*6 citations*
61. **[Phrase-based Unsupervised Machine Translation with Compositional Phrase Embeddings ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6407/)**Maksym Del, Andre Tättar, Mark Fishel · Shared Task Papers*5 citations*
62. **[The AFRL-Ohio State WMT18 Multimodal System: Combining Visual with Traditional ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6440/)**Jeremy Gwinnup, Joshua Sandvick, Michael Hutt et al. · Shared Task Papers*5 citations*
63. **[DFKI-MLT System Description for the WMT18 Automatic Post-editing Task ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6469/)**Daria Pylypenko, Raphael Rubino · Shared Task Papers*4 citations*
64. **[Sheffield Submissions for the WMT18 Quality Estimation Shared Task ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6463/)**Julia Ive, Carolina Scarton, Frédéric Blain et al. · Shared Task Papers*4 citations*
65. **[The AFRL WMT18 Systems: Ensembling, Continuation and Combination ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6411/)**Jeremy Gwinnup, Tim Anderson, Grant Erdmann et al. · Shared Task Papers*4 citations*
66. **[The ILSP/ARC submission to the WMT 2018 Parallel Corpus Filtering Shared Task ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6484/)**Vassilis Papavassiliou, Sokratis Sofianopoulos, Prokopis Prokopidis et al. · Shared Task Papers*4 citations*
67. **[The RWTH Aachen University English-German and German-English Unsupervised Neural Machine Translation Systems for WMT 2018 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6409/)**Miguel Graça, Yunsu Kim, Julian Schamper et al. · Shared Task Papers*4 citations*
68. **[The University of Helsinki submissions to the WMT18 news task ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6425/)**Alessandro Raganato, Yves Scherrer, Tommi Nieminen et al. · Shared Task Papers*4 citations*
69. **[UFRGS Participation on the WMT Biomedical Translation Shared Task ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6448/)**Felipe Soares, Karin Becker · Shared Task Papers*4 citations*
70. **[Ensemble of Translators with Automatic Selection of the Best Translation – the submission of FOKUS to the WMT 18 biomedical translation task – ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6445/)**Cristian Grozea · Shared Task Papers*3 citations*
71. **[MS-UEdin Submission to the WMT2018 APE Shared Task: Dual-Source Transformer for Automatic Post-Editing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6467/)**Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt, Roman Grundkiewicz · Shared Task Papers*3 citations*
72. **[NICT's Corpus Filtering Systems for the WMT18 Parallel Corpus Filtering Task ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6489/)**Rui Wang, Benjamin Marie, Masao Utiyama et al. · Shared Task Papers*3 citations*
73. **[PROMT Systems for WMT 2018 Shared Translation Task ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6420/)**Alexander Molchanov · Shared Task Papers*3 citations*
74. **[Robust parfda Statistical Machine Translation Results ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6405/)**Ergun Biçici · Shared Task Papers*3 citations*
75. **[STACC, OOV Density and N-gram Saturation: Vicomtech's Participation in the WMT 2018 Shared Task on Parallel Corpus Filtering ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6473/)**Andoni Azpeitia, Thierry Etchegoyhen, Eva Martínez Garcia · Shared Task Papers*3 citations*
76. **[The Benefit of Pseudo-Reference Translations in Quality Estimation of MT Output ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6460/)**Melania Duma, Wolfgang Menzel · Shared Task Papers*3 citations*
77. **[The LMU Munich Unsupervised Machine Translation Systems ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6428/)**Dario Stojanovski, Viktor Hangya, Matthias Huck et al. · Shared Task Papers*3 citations*
78. **[The TALP-UPC Machine Translation Systems for WMT18 News Shared Translation Task ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6406/)**Noe Casas, Carlos Escolano, Marta R. Costa-jussà et al. · Shared Task Papers*3 citations*
79. **[Translation of Biomedical Documents with Focus on Spanish-English ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6444/)**Mirela-Stefania Duma, Wolfgang Menzel · Shared Task Papers*3 citations*
80. **[UTFPR at WMT 2018: Minimalistic Supervised Corpora Filtering for Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6483/)**Gustavo Paetzold · Shared Task Papers*3 citations*
81. **[A hybrid pipeline of rules and machine learning to filter web-crawled parallel corpora ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6474/)**Eduard Barbu, Verginica Barbu Mititelu · Shared Task Papers*2 citations*
82. **[Contextual Encoding for Translation Quality Estimation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6462/)**Junjie Hu, Wei-Cheng Chang, Yuexin Wu et al. · Shared Task Papers*2 citations*
83. **[JUCBNMT at WMT2018 News Translation Task: Character Based Neural Machine Translation of Finnish to English ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6418/)**Sainik Kumar Mahata, Dipankar Das, Sivaji Bandyopadhyay · Shared Task Papers*2 citations*
84. **[Keep It or Not: Word Level Quality Estimation for Post-Editing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6457/)**Prasenjit Basu, Santanu Pal, Sudip Kumar Naskar · Shared Task Papers*2 citations*
85. **[SYSTRAN Participation to the WMT2018 Shared Task on Parallel Corpus Filtering ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6485/)**MinhQuang Pham, Josep Crego, Jean Senellart · Shared Task Papers*2 citations*
86. **[TencentFmRD Neural Machine Translation for WMT18 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6413/)**Bojie Hu, Ambyer Han, Shen Huang · Shared Task Papers*2 citations*
87. **[Testsuite on Czech–English Grammatical Contrasts ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6434/)**Silvie Cinková, Ondřej Bojar · Shared Task Papers*2 citations*
88. **[MAJE Submission to the WMT2018 Shared Task on Parallel Corpus Filtering ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6476/)**Marina Fomicheva, Jesús González-Rubio · Shared Task Papers*1 citation*
89. **[UAlacant machine translation quality estimation at WMT 2018: a simple approach using phrase tables and feed-forward neural networks ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6464/)**Felipe Sánchez-Martínez, Miquel Esplà-Gomis, Mikel L. Forcada · Shared Task Papers*1 citation*
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