Title
The USFD SLT system for IWSLT 2014.
Abstract
The University of Sheffield (USFD) participated in the International Workshop for Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT) in 2014. In this paper, we will introduce the USFD SLT system for IWSLT. Automatic speech recognition (ASR) is achieved by two multi-pass deep neural network systems with adaptation and rescoring techniques. Machine translation (MT) is achieved by a phrase-based system. The USFD primary system incorporates state-of-the-art ASR and MT techniques and gives a BLEU score of 23.45 and 14.75 on the English-to-French and English-to-German speech-to- text translation task with the IWSLT 2014 data. The USFD contrastive systems explore the integration of ASR and MT by using a quality estimation system to rescore the ASR out- puts, optimising towards better translation. This gives a fur- ther 0.54 and 0.26 BLEU improvement respectively on the IWSLT 2012 and 2014 evaluation data.
Year
Venue
DocType
2014
IWSLT
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
10
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Raymond W. M. Ng134021.61
Mortaza Doulaty200.34
Rama Doddipatla362.82
Wilker Aziz47010.24
Kashif Shah510311.69
Oscar Saz600.68
Madina Hasan7135.35
Ghada AlHarbi881.90
lucia specia91217122.84
Thomas Hain1017128.29