This paper describes the syntax-based systems built at the University of Edinburgh for the WMT 2015 shared translation task. We developed systems for all language pairs except French-English. This year we focused on: translation out of English using tree-to-string models; continuing to improve our English-German system; and source-side morphological segmentation of Finnish using Morfessor.

This paper describes the syntax-based systems built at the University of Edinburgh for the WMT 2015 shared translation task. We developed systems for all language pairs except French-English. This year we focused on: translation out of English using tree-to-string models; continuing to improve our English-German system; and source-side morphological segmentation of Finnish using Morfessor.

LMT (logic-based machine translation) is an experimental English-to-German MT system, being developed in the framework of logic programming. The English analysis uses a logic grammar formalism, Modular Logic Grammar, which allows logic grammars to be more compact, and which has a modular treatment of syntax, lexicon, and semantics. The English grammar is written independently of the task of tra...

This paper describes the University of Edinburgh’s spoken language translation (SLT) and machine translation (MT) systems for the IWSLT 2014 evaluation campaign. In the SLT track, we participated in the German↔English and English→French tasks. In the MT track, we participated in the German↔English, English→French, Arabic↔English, Farsi→English, Hebrew→English, Spanish↔English, and Portuguese-Br...

This paper describes the University of Edinburgh’s spoken language translation (SLT) and machine translation (MT) systems for the IWSLT 2014 evaluation campaign. In the SLT track, we participated in the German↔English and English→French tasks. In the MT track, we participated in the German↔English, English→French, Arabic↔English, Farsi→English, Hebrew→English, Spanish↔English, and Portuguese-Br...