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# WMT 2008: all accepted papers

36 papers · the most cited first · [← WMT 2008](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wmt/2008/)

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
26. **[Statistical Transfer Systems for French-English and German-English Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W08-0324/)**Greg Hanneman, Edmund Huber, Abhaya Agarwal et al.
27. **[TectoMT: Highly Modular MT System with Tectogrammatics Used as Transfer Layer ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W08-0325/)**Zdeněk Žabokrtský, Jan Ptáček, Petr Pajas
28. **[The MetaMorpho Translation System ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W08-0311/)**Attila Novák, László Tihanyi, Gábor Prószéky
29. **[The Role of Pseudo References in MT Evaluation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W08-0330/)**Joshua Albrecht, Rebecca Hwa
30. **[The TALP-UPC Ngram-Based Statistical Machine Translation System for ACL-WMT 2008 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W08-0315/)**Maxim Khalilov, Adolfo Hernández H., Marta R. Costa-jussà et al.
31. **[The University of Washington Machine Translation System for ACL WMT 2008 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W08-0314/)**Amittai Axelrod, Mei Yang, Kevin Duh et al.
32. **[Towards better Machine Translation Quality for the German-English Language Pairs ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W08-0318/)**Philipp Koehn, Abhishek Arun, Hieu Hoang
33. **[Using Moses to Integrate Multiple Rule-Based Machine Translation Engines into a Hybrid System ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W08-0328/)**Andreas Eisele, Christian Federmann, Hervé Saint-Amand et al.
34. **[Using Shallow Syntax Information to Improve Word Alignment and Reordering for SMT ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W08-0307/)**Josep M. Crego, Nizar Habash
35. **[Using Syntactic Coupling Features for Discriminating Phrase-Based Translations (WMT-08 Shared Translation Task) ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W08-0323/)**Vassilina Nikoulina, Marc Dymetman
36. **[Using Syntax to Improve Word Alignment Precision for Syntax-Based Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W08-0306/)**Victoria Fossum, Kevin Knight, Steven Abney
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