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pdf bib Front matter pages
Research Papers
pdf bib Scaling Neural Machine Translation
Myle Ott, Sergey Edunov, David Grangier and Michael Auli
pp. 1–9
pdf bib Character-level Chinese-English Translation through ASCII Encoding
Nikola Nikolov, Yuhuang Hu, Mi Xue Tan and Richard H.R. Hahnloser
pp. 10–16
pdf bib Neural Machine Translation of Logographic Language Using Sub-character Level Information
Longtu Zhang and Mamoru Komachi
pp. 17–25
pdf bib An Analysis of Attention Mechanisms: The Case of Word Sense Disambiguation in Neural Machine Translation
Gongbo Tang, Rico Sennrich and Joakim Nivre
pp. 26–35
pdf bib Discourse-Related Language Contrasts in English-Croatian Human and Machine Translation
Margita Šoštarić, Christian Hardmeier and Sara Stymne
pp. 36–48
pdf bib Coreference and Coherence in Neural Machine Translation: A Study Using Oracle Experiments
Dario Stojanovski and Alexander Fraser
pp. 49–60
pdf bib A Large-Scale Test Set for the Evaluation of Context-Aware Pronoun Translation in Neural Machine Translation
Mathias Müller, Annette Rios, Elena Voita and Rico Sennrich
pp. 61–72
pdf bib Beyond Weight Tying: Learning Joint Input-Output Embeddings for Neural Machine Translation
Nikolaos Pappas, Lesly Miculicich and James Henderson
pp. 73–83
pdf bib A neural interlingua for multilingual machine translation
Yichao Lu, Phillip Keung, Faisal Ladhak, Vikas Bhardwaj, Shaonan Zhang and Jason Sun
pp. 84–92
pdf bib Improving Neural Language Models with Weight Norm Initialization and Regularization
Christian Herold, Yingbo Gao and Hermann Ney
pp. 93–100
pdf bib Contextual Neural Model for Translating Bilingual Multi-Speaker Conversations
Sameen Maruf, André F. T. Martins and Gholamreza Haffari
pp. 101–112
pdf bib Attaining the Unattainable? Reassessing Claims of Human Parity in Neural Machine Translation
Antonio Toral, Sheila Castilho, Ke Hu and Andy Way
pp. 113–123
pdf bib Freezing Subnetworks to Analyze Domain Adaptation in Neural Machine Translation
Brian Thompson, Huda Khayrallah, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Arya D. McCarthy, Kevin Duh, Rebecca Marvin, Paul McNamee, Jeremy Gwinnup, Tim Anderson and Philipp Koehn
pp. 124–132
pdf bib Denoising Neural Machine Translation Training with Trusted Data and Online Data Selection
Wei Wang, Taro Watanabe, Macduff Hughes, Tetsuji Nakagawa and Ciprian Chelba
pp. 133–143
pdf bib Using Monolingual Data in Neural Machine Translation: a Systematic Study
Franck Burlot and François Yvon
pp. 144–155
pdf bib Neural Machine Translation into Language Varieties
Surafel Melaku Lakew, Aliia Erofeeva and Marcello Federico
pp. 156–164
pdf bib Effective Parallel Corpus Mining using Bilingual Sentence Embeddings
Mandy Guo, Qinlan Shen, Yinfei Yang, Heming Ge, Daniel Cer, Gustavo Hernandez Abrego, Keith Stevens, Noah Constant, Yun-hsuan Sung, Brian Strope and Ray Kurzweil
pp. 165–176
pdf bib On The Alignment Problem In Multi-Head Attention-Based Neural Machine Translation
Tamer Alkhouli, Gabriel Bretschner and Hermann Ney
pp. 177–185
pdf bib A Call for Clarity in Reporting BLEU Scores
Matt Post
pp. 186–191
pdf bib Exploring gap filling as a cheaper alternative to reading comprehension questionnaires when evaluating machine translation for gisting
Mikel L. Forcada, Carolina Scarton, Lucia Specia, Barry Haddow and Alexandra Birch
pp. 192–203
pdf bib Simple Fusion: Return of the Language Model
Felix Stahlberg, James Cross and Veselin Stoyanov
pp. 204–211
pdf bib Correcting Length Bias in Neural Machine Translation
Kenton Murray and David Chiang
pp. 212–223
pdf bib Extracting In-domain Training Corpora for Neural Machine Translation Using Data Selection Methods
Catarina Cruz Silva, Chao-Hong Liu, Alberto Poncelas and Andy Way
pp. 224–231
pdf bib Massively Parallel Cross-Lingual Learning in Low-Resource Target Language Translation
Zhong Zhou, Matthias Sperber and Alexander Waibel
pp. 232–243
pdf bib Trivial Transfer Learning for Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation
Tom Kocmi and Ondřej Bojar
pp. 244–252
pdf bib Input Combination Strategies for Multi-Source Transformer Decoder
Jindřich Libovický, Jindřich Helcl and David Mareček
pp. 253–260
pdf bib Parameter Sharing Methods for Multilingual Self-Attentional Translation Models
Devendra Sachan and Graham Neubig
pp. 261–271
Shared Task Overview Papers
pdf bib Findings of the 2018 Conference on Machine Translation (WMT18)
Ondřej Bojar, Christian Federmann, Mark Fishel, Yvette Graham, Barry Haddow, Matthias Huck, Philipp Koehn and Christof Monz
pp. 272–307
pdf bib Findings of the Third Shared Task on Multimodal Machine Translation
Loïc Barrault, Fethi Bougares, Lucia Specia, Chiraag Lala, Desmond Elliott and Stella Frank
pp. 308–327
pdf bib Findings of the WMT 2018 Biomedical Translation Shared Task: Evaluation on Medline test sets
Mariana Neves, Antonio Jimeno Yepes, Aurélie Névéol, Cristian Grozea, Amy Siu, Madeleine Kittner and Karin Verspoor
pp. 328–343
pdf bib Results of the WMT18 Metrics Shared Task: Both characters and embeddings achieve good performance
Qingsong Ma, Ondřej Bojar and Yvette Graham
pp. 682–701
pdf bib Findings of the WMT 2018 Shared Task on Quality Estimation
Lucia Specia, Frédéric Blain, Varvara Logacheva, Ramón Astudillo and André F. T. Martins
pp. 702–722
pdf bib Findings of the WMT 2018 Shared Task on Automatic Post-Editing
Rajen Chatterjee, Matteo Negri, Raphael Rubino and Marco Turchi
pp. 723–738
pdf bib Findings of the WMT 2018 Shared Task on Parallel Corpus Filtering
Philipp Koehn, Huda Khayrallah, Kenneth Heafield and Mikel L. Forcada
pp. 739–752
Shared Task: News Translation
pdf bib An Empirical Study of Machine Translation for the Shared Task of WMT18
Chao Bei, Hao Zong, Yiming Wang, Baoyong Fan, Shiqi Li and Conghu Yuan
pp. 344–348
pdf bib Robust parfda Statistical Machine Translation Results
Ergun Biçici
pp. 349–358
pdf bib The TALP-UPC Machine Translation Systems for WMT18 News Shared Translation Task
Noe Casas, Carlos Escolano, Marta R. Costa-jussà and José A. R. Fonollosa
pp. 359–364
pdf bib Phrase-based Unsupervised Machine Translation with Compositional Phrase Embeddings
Maksym Del, Andre Tättar and Mark Fishel
pp. 365–371
pdf bib Alibaba’s Neural Machine Translation Systems for WMT18
Yongchao Deng, Shanbo Cheng, Jun Lu, Kai Song, Jingang Wang, Shenglan Wu, Liang Yao, Guchun Zhang, Haibo Zhang, Pei Zhang, Changfeng Zhu and Boxing Chen
pp. 372–380
pdf bib The RWTH Aachen University English-German and German-English Unsupervised Neural Machine Translation Systems for WMT 2018
Miguel Graça, Yunsu Kim, Julian Schamper, Jiahui Geng and Hermann Ney
pp. 381–389
pdf bib Cognate-aware morphological segmentation for multilingual neural translation
Stig-Arne Grönroos, Sami Virpioja and Mikko Kurimo
pp. 390–397
pdf bib The AFRL WMT18 Systems: Ensembling, Continuation and Combination
Jeremy Gwinnup, Tim Anderson, Grant Erdmann and Katherine Young
pp. 398–402
pdf bib The University of Edinburgh's Submissions to the WMT18 News Translation Task
Barry Haddow, Nikolay Bogoychev, Denis Emelin, Ulrich Germann, Roman Grundkiewicz, Kenneth Heafield, Antonio Valerio Miceli Barone and Rico Sennrich
pp. 403–413
pdf bib TencentFmRD Neural Machine Translation for WMT18
Bojie Hu, Ambyer Han and Shen Huang
pp. 414–421
pdf bib The MLLP-UPV German-English Machine Translation System for WMT18
Javier Iranzo-Sánchez, Pau Baquero-Arnal, Gonçal V. Garcés Díaz-Munío, Adrià Martínez-Villaronga, Jorge Civera and Alfons Juan
pp. 422–428
pdf bib Microsoft’s Submission to the WMT2018 News Translation Task: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Data
Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt
pp. 429–434
pdf bib CUNI Submissions in WMT18
Tom Kocmi, Roman Sudarikov and Ondřej Bojar
pp. 435–441
pdf bib The JHU Machine Translation Systems for WMT 2018
Philipp Koehn, Kevin Duh and Brian Thompson
pp. 442–448
pdf bib JUCBNMT at WMT2018 News Translation Task: Character Based Neural Machine Translation of Finnish to English
Sainik Kumar Mahata, Dipankar Das and Sivaji Bandyopadhyay
pp. 449–452
pdf bib NICT’s Neural and Statistical Machine Translation Systems for the WMT18 News Translation Task
Benjamin Marie, Rui Wang, Atsushi Fujita, Masao Utiyama and Eiichiro Sumita
pp. 453–459
pdf bib PROMT Systems for WMT 2018 Shared Translation Task
Alexander Molchanov
pp. 460–464
pdf bib NTT’s Neural Machine Translation Systems for WMT 2018
Makoto Morishita, Jun Suzuki and Masaaki Nagata
pp. 465–470
pdf bib The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Systems for the News Translation Task in WMT 2018
Ngoc-Quan Pham, Jan Niehues and Alexander Waibel
pp. 471–476
pdf bib Tilde’s Machine Translation Systems for WMT 2018
Marcis Pinnis, Matiss Rikters and Rihards Krišlauks
pp. 477–485
pdf bib CUNI Transformer Neural MT System for WMT18
Martin Popel
pp. 486–491
pdf bib The University of Helsinki submissions to the WMT18 news task
Alessandro Raganato, Yves Scherrer, Tommi Nieminen, Arvi Hurskainen and Jörg Tiedemann
pp. 492–499
pdf bib The RWTH Aachen University Supervised Machine Translation Systems for WMT 2018
Julian Schamper, Jan Rosendahl, Parnia Bahar, Yunsu Kim, Arne Nix and Hermann Ney
pp. 500–507
pdf bib The University of Cambridge's Machine Translation Systems for WMT18
Felix Stahlberg, Adrià de Gispert and Bill Byrne
pp. 508–516
pdf bib The LMU Munich Unsupervised Machine Translation Systems
Dario Stojanovski, Viktor Hangya, Matthias Huck and Alexander Fraser
pp. 517–525
pdf bib Tencent Neural Machine Translation Systems for WMT18
Mingxuan Wang, Li Gong, Wenhuan Zhu, Jun Xie and Chao Bian
pp. 526–531
pdf bib The NiuTrans Machine Translation System for WMT18
Qiang Wang, Bei Li, Jiqiang Liu, Bojian Jiang, Zheyang Zhang, Yinqiao Li, Ye Lin, Tong Xiao and Jingbo Zhu
pp. 532–538
pdf bib The University of Maryland’s Chinese-English Neural Machine Translation Systems at WMT18
Weijia Xu and Marine Carpuat
pp. 539–544
Shared Task: Extra Test Suites
pdf bib EvalD Reference-Less Discourse Evaluation for WMT18
Ondřej Bojar, Jiří Mírovský, Kateřina Rysová and Magdaléna Rysová
pp. 545–549
pdf bib The WMT’18 Morpheval test suites for English-Czech, English-German, English-Finnish and Turkish-English
Franck Burlot, Yves Scherrer, Vinit Ravishankar, Ondřej Bojar, Stig-Arne Grönroos, Maarit Koponen, Tommi Nieminen and François Yvon
pp. 550–564
pdf bib Testsuite on Czech–English Grammatical Contrasts
Silvie Cinkova and Ondřej Bojar
pp. 565–575
pdf bib A Pronoun Test Suite Evaluation of the English–German MT Systems at WMT 2018
Liane Guillou, Christian Hardmeier, Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski and Sharid Loáiciga
pp. 576–583
pdf bib Fine-grained evaluation of German-English Machine Translation based on a Test Suite
Vivien Macketanz, Eleftherios Avramidis, Aljoscha Burchardt and Hans Uszkoreit
pp. 584–593
pdf bib The Word Sense Disambiguation Test Suite at WMT18
Annette Rios, Mathias Müller and Rico Sennrich
pp. 594–602
Shared Task: Multimodal Translation
pdf bib LIUM-CVC Submissions for WMT18 Multimodal Translation Task
Ozan Caglayan, Adrien Bardet, Fethi Bougares, Loïc Barrault, Kai Wang, Marc Masana, Luis Herranz and Joost van de Weijer
pp. 603–608
pdf bib The MeMAD Submission to the WMT18 Multimodal Translation Task
Stig-Arne Grönroos, Benoit Huet, Mikko Kurimo, Jorma Laaksonen, Bernard Merialdo, Phu Pham, Mats Sjöberg, Umut Sulubacak, Jörg Tiedemann, Raphael Troncy and Raúl Vázquez
pp. 609–617
pdf bib The AFRL-Ohio State WMT18 Multimodal System: Combining Visual with Traditional
Jeremy Gwinnup, Joshua Sandvick, Michael Hutt, Grant Erdmann, John Duselis and James Davis
pp. 618–621
pdf bib CUNI System for the WMT18 Multimodal Translation Task
Jindřich Helcl, Jindřich Libovický and Dusan Varis
pp. 622–629
pdf bib Sheffield Submissions for WMT18 Multimodal Translation Shared Task
Chiraag Lala, Pranava Swaroop Madhyastha, Carolina Scarton and Lucia Specia
pp. 630–637
pdf bib Ensemble Sequence Level Training for Multimodal MT: OSU-Baidu WMT18 Multimodal Machine Translation System Report
Renjie Zheng, Yilin Yang, Mingbo Ma and Liang Huang
pp. 638–642
pdf bib UMONS Submission for WMT18 Multimodal Translation Task
Jean-Benoit Delbrouck and Stéphane Dupont
pp. 643–647
Shared Task: Biomedical Translation
pdf bib Translation of Biomedical Documents with Focus on Spanish-English
Mirela-Stefania Duma and Wolfgang Menzel
pp. 648–654
pdf bib Ensemble of Translators with Automatic Selection of the Best Translation
– the submission of FOKUS to the WMT 18 biomedical translation task –

Cristian Grozea
pp. 655–658
pdf bib LMU Munich's Neural Machine Translation Systems at WMT 2018
Matthias Huck, Dario Stojanovski, Viktor Hangya and Alexander Fraser
pp. 659–665
pdf bib Hunter NMT System for WMT18 Biomedical Translation Task: Transfer Learning in Neural Machine Translation
Abdul Khan, Subhadarshi Panda, Jia Xu and Lampros Flokas
pp. 666–672
pdf bib UFRGS Participation on the WMT Biomedical Translation Shared Task
Felipe Soares and Karin Becker
pp. 673–677
pdf bib Neural Machine Translation with the Transformer and Multi-Source Romance Languages for the Biomedical WMT 2018 task
Brian Tubay and Marta R. Costa-jussà
pp. 678–681
Shared Task: Metrics
pdf bib Meteor++: Incorporating Copy Knowledge into Machine Translation Evaluation
Yinuo Guo, Chong Ruan and Junfeng Hu
pp. 753–758
pdf bib ITER: Improving Translation Edit Rate through Optimizable Edit Costs
Joybrata Panja and Sudip Kumar Naskar
pp. 759–763
pdf bib RUSE: Regressor Using Sentence Embeddings for Automatic Machine Translation Evaluation
Hiroki Shimanaka, Tomoyuki Kajiwara and Mamoru Komachi
pp. 764–771
Shared Task: Quality Estimation
pdf bib Keep It or Not: Word Level Quality Estimation for Post-Editing
Prasenjit Basu, Santanu Pal and Sudip Kumar Naskar
pp. 772–777
pdf bib RTM results for Predicting Translation Performance
Ergun Biçici
pp. 778–782
pdf bib Neural Machine Translation for English-Tamil
Himanshu Choudhary, Aditya Kumar Pathak, Rajiv Ratan Saha and Ponnurangam Kumaraguru
pp. 783–788
pdf bib The Benefit of Pseudo-Reference Translations in Quality Estimation of MT Output
Melania Duma and Wolfgang Menzel
pp. 789–794
pdf bib Supervised and Unsupervised Minimalist Quality Estimators: Vicomtech’s Participation in the WMT 2018 Quality Estimation Task
Thierry Etchegoyhen, Eva Martínez Garcia and Andoni Azpeitia
pp. 795–800
pdf bib Contextual Encoding for Translation Quality Estimation
Junjie Hu, Wei-Cheng Chang, Yuexin Wu and Graham Neubig
pp. 801–806
pdf bib Sheffield Submissions for the WMT18 Quality Estimation Shared Task
Julia Ive, Carolina Scarton, Frédéric Blain and Lucia Specia
pp. 807–813
pdf bib UAlacant machine translation quality estimation at WMT 2018: a simple approach using phrase tables and feed-forward neural networks
Felipe Sánchez-Martínez, Miquel Esplà-Gomis and Mikel L. Forcada
pp. 814–821
pdf bib Alibaba Submission for WMT18 Quality Estimation Task
Jiayi Wang, Kai Fan, Bo Li, Fengming Zhou, Boxing Chen, Yangbin Shi and Luo Si
pp. 822–828
pdf bib Quality Estimation with Force-Decoded Attention and Cross-lingual Embeddings
Elizaveta Yankovskaya, Andre Tättar and Mark Fishel
pp. 829–834
Shared Task: Automatic Post-Editing
pdf bib MS-UEdin Submission to the WMT2018 APE Shared Task:
Dual-Source Transformer for Automatic Post-Editing

Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt and Roman Grundkiewicz
pp. 835–839
pdf bib A Transformer-Based Multi-Source Automatic Post-Editing System
Santanu Pal, Nico Herbig, Antonio Krüger and Josef van Genabith
pp. 840–848
pdf bib DFKI-MLT System Description for the WMT18 Automatic Post-editing Task
Daria Pylypenko and Raphael Rubino
pp. 849–852
pdf bib Multi-encoder Transformer Network for Automatic Post-Editing
Jaehun Shin and Jong-Hyeok Lee
pp. 853–858
pdf bib Multi-source transformer with combined losses for automatic post editing
Amirhossein Tebbifakhr, Ruchit Agrawal, Rajen Chatterjee, Matteo Negri and Marco Turchi
pp. 859–865
Shared Task: Parallel Corpus Filtering
pdf bib The Speechmatics Parallel Corpus Filtering System for WMT18
Tom Ash, Remi Francis and Will Williams
pp. 866–872
pdf bib STACC, OOV Density and N-gram Saturation: Vicomtech’s Participation in the WMT 2018 Shared Task on Parallel Corpus Filtering
Andoni Azpeitia, Thierry Etchegoyhen and Eva Martínez garcia
pp. 873–879
pdf bib A hybrid pipeline of rules and machine learning to filter web-crawled parallel corpora
Eduard Barbu and Verginica Barbu Mititelu
pp. 880–884
pdf bib Coverage and Cynicism: The AFRL Submission to the WMT 2018 Parallel Corpus Filtering Task
Grant Erdmann and Jeremy Gwinnup
pp. 885–889
pdf bib MAJE Submission to the WMT2018 Shared Task on Parallel Corpus Filtering
Marina Fomicheva and Jesús González-Rubio
pp. 890–894
pdf bib An Unsupervised System for Parallel Corpus Filtering
Viktor Hangya and Alexander Fraser
pp. 895–900
pdf bib Dual Conditional Cross-Entropy Filtering of Noisy Parallel Corpora
Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt
pp. 901–908
pdf bib The JHU Parallel Corpus Filtering Systems for WMT 2018
Huda Khayrallah, Hainan Xu and Philipp Koehn
pp. 909–912
pdf bib Measuring sentence parallelism using Mahalanobis distances: The NRC unsupervised submissions to the WMT18 Parallel Corpus Filtering shared task
Patrick Littell, Samuel Larkin, Darlene Stewart, Michel Simard, Cyril Goutte and Chi-kiu Lo
pp. 913–920
pdf bib 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
Chi-kiu Lo, Michel Simard, Darlene Stewart, Samuel Larkin, Cyril Goutte and Patrick Littell
pp. 921–929
pdf bib Alibaba Submission to the WMT18 Parallel Corpus Filtering Task
Jun Lu, Xiaoyu Lv, Yangbin Shi and Boxing Chen
pp. 930–935
pdf bib UTFPR at WMT 2018: Minimalistic Supervised Corpora Filtering for Machine Translation
Gustavo Paetzold
pp. 936–940
pdf bib The ILSP/ARC submission to the WMT 2018 Parallel Corpus Filtering Shared Task
Vassilis Papavassiliou, Sokratis Sofianopoulos, Prokopis Prokopidis and Stelios Piperidis
pp. 941–946
pdf bib SYSTRAN Participation to the WMT2018 Shared Task on Parallel Corpus Filtering
Minh Quang Pham, Josep Crego and Jean Senellart
pp. 947–951
pdf bib Tilde’s Parallel Corpus Filtering Methods for WMT 2018
Marcis Pinnis
pp. 952–958
pdf bib The RWTH Aachen University Filtering System for the WMT 2018 Parallel Corpus Filtering Task
Nick Rossenbach, Jan Rosendahl, Yunsu Kim, Miguel Graça, Aman Gokrani and Hermann Ney
pp. 959–967
pdf bib Prompsit’s submission to WMT 2018 Parallel Corpus Filtering shared task
Víctor M. Sánchez-Cartagena, Marta Bañón, Sergio Ortiz Rojas and Gema Ramírez
pp. 968–975
pdf bib NICT’s Corpus Filtering Systems for the WMT18 Parallel Corpus Filtering Task
Rui Wang, Benjamin Marie, Masao Utiyama and Eiichiro Sumita
pp. 976–980