The JHU Machine Translation Systems for WMT 2016

This paper describes the submission of Johns Hopkins University for the shared translation task of ACL 2016 First Conference on Machine Translation (WMT 2016). We set up phrase-based, hierarchical phrase-based and syntax-based systems for all 12 language pairs of this year’s evaluation campaign. Novel research directions we investigated include: neural probabilistic language models, bilingual neural network language models, morphological segmentation, and the attentionbased neural machine translation model as reranking feature.