--- title: "WMT 2008 — accepted papers — Elamur Research" description: "WMT 2008 — accepted papers: 2 papers in the Elamur Research library (Columbus, Ohio), with our summaries, ranked by citations." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wmt/2008/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wmt/2008/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [venues](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/) / [WMT](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wmt/) / 2008 # WMT 2008 — accepted papers WMT 2008 is the 2008 edition of the Conference on Machine Translation (WMT), held in Columbus, Ohio, June 2008 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). OpenAlex lists 36 papers of it; our library holds 2 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions. 📍 Columbus, Ohio · 🗓 June 2008 [**36** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**2** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wmt/2008/#works) · [**457** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wmt/2008/#works) ## All accepted papers (36) The most cited first; 2 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original. 1. **[A Smorgasbord of Features for Automatic MT Evaluation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W08-0332/)**Jesús Giménez, Lluís Màrquez 2. **[An Empirical Study in Source Word Deletion for Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W08-0301/)**Chi-Ho Li, Hailei Zhang, Dongdong Zhang et al. 3. **[Can we Relearn an RBMT System? ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W08-0327/)**Loïc Dugast, Jean Senellart, Philipp Koehn 4. **[Discriminative Word Alignment via Alignment Matrix Modeling ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W08-0303/)**Jan Niehues, Stephan Vogel 5. **[Dynamic Model Interpolation for Statistical Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W08-0334/)**Andrew Finch, Eiichiro Sumita 6. **[Effects of Morphological Analysis in Translation between German and English ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W08-0317/)**Sara Stymne, Maria Holmqvist, Lars Ahrenberg 7. **[European Language Translation with Weighted Finite State Transducers: The CUED MT System for the 2008 ACL Workshop on SMT ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W08-0316/)**Graeme Blackwood, Adrià de Gispert, Jamie Brunning et al. 8. **[Fast, Easy, and Cheap: Construction of Statistical Machine Translation Models with MapReduce ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W08-0333/)**Chris Dyer, Aaron Cordova, Alex Mont et al. 9. **[First Steps towards a General Purpose French/English Statistical Machine Translation System ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W08-0313/)**Holger Schwenk, Jean-Baptiste Fouet, Jean Senellart 10. **[Further Meta-Evaluation of Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W08-0309/)**Chris Callison-Burch, Cameron Fordyce, Philipp Koehn et al. 11. **[Improved Statistical Machine Translation by Multiple Chinese Word Segmentation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W08-0335/)**Ruiqiang Zhang, Keiji Yasuda, Eiichiro Sumita 12. **[Improved Tree-to-String Transducer for Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W08-0308/)**Ding Liu, Daniel Gildea 13. **[Improving English-Spanish Statistical Machine Translation: Experiments in Domain Adaptation, Sentence Paraphrasing, Tokenization, and Recasing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W08-0320/)**Preslav Nakov 14. **[Improving Word Alignment with Language Model Based Confidence Scores ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W08-0321/)**Nguyen Bach, Qin Gao, Stephan Vogel 15. **[Incremental Hypothesis Alignment for Building Confusion Networks with Application to Machine Translation System Combination ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W08-0329/)**Antti-Veikko Rosti, Bing Zhang, Spyros Matsoukas et al. 16. **[Kernel Regression Framework for Machine Translation: UCL System Description for WMT 2008 Shared Translation Task ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W08-0322/)**Zhuoran Wang, John Shawe-Taylor 17. **[Learning Performance of a Machine Translation System: a Statistical and Computational Analysis ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W08-0305/)**Marco Turchi, Tijl De Bie, Nello Cristianini 18. **[Limsi's Statistical Translation Systems for WMT`08 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W08-0310/)**Daniel Déchelotte, Gilles Adda, Alexandre Allauzen et al. 19. **[MaTrEx: The DCU MT System for WMT 2008 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W08-0326/)**John Tinsley, Yanjun Ma, Sylwia Ozdowska et al. 20. **[Meteor, M-BLEU and M-TER: Evaluation Metrics for High-Correlation with Human Rankings of Machine Translation Output ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W08-0312/)**Abhaya Agarwal, Alon Lavie 21. **[Optimizing Chinese Word Segmentation for Machine Translation Performance](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chang-2008-optimizing-chinese-word-segmentation-machine/)**Pi-Chuan Chang, Michel Galley, Christopher D. Manning*our summary* 22. **[Phrase-Based and Deep Syntactic English-to-Czech Statistical Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bojar-2008-phrase-based-deep-syntactic-english/)**Ondřej Bojar, Jan Hajič*our summary* 23. **[Ranking vs. Regression in Machine Translation Evaluation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W08-0331/)**Kevin Duh 24. **[Regularization and Search for Minimum Error Rate Training ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W08-0304/)**Daniel Cer, Dan Jurafsky, Christopher D. Manning 25. **[Rich Source-Side Context for Statistical Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W08-0302/)**Kevin Gimpel, Noah A. Smith [See all 36 papers in WMT 2008 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wmt/2008/papers/) ## Papers with our summary in our library (2) The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's). 1. **[Optimizing Chinese Word Segmentation for Machine Translation Performance](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chang-2008-optimizing-chinese-word-segmentation-machine/) [Conference on Machine Translation (WMT)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wmt/)**Pi-Chuan Chang, Michel Galley, Christopher D. Manning*2008 · 420 citations* 2. [**Phrase-Based and Deep Syntactic English-to-Czech Statistical Machine Translation**Ondřej Bojar, Jan Hajič*2008 · 37 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bojar-2008-phrase-based-deep-syntactic-english/) ## Top topics Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. [Machine translation (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Tokenization & segmentation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/tokenization/) · [English (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) ## Fields [Arts and Humanities (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (2)](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. [🧑‍🔬**Christopher D. Manning**1 work here · 420 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christopher-d-manning/) · [🧑‍🔬**Michel Galley**1 work here · 420 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michel-galley/) · [🧑‍🔬**Jan Hajič**1 work here · 37 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jan-hajic/) · [🧑‍🔬**Ondřej Bojar**1 work here · 37 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ondrej-bojar/) ## Top institutions Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works. [🎓**Charles University** Prague · Czechia 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/charles-university/) · [🎓**Stanford University** Stanford · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stanford-university/) Place and dates from the event's site or the ACL Anthology; works and citations from OpenAlex and our library. - [← previous WMT 2007](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wmt/2007/) - [next → WMT 2009](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wmt/2009/) - [↑ back to WMT](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wmt/)