@inproceedings{he2009joint,
author = {He, Xiaodong and Toutanova, Kristina},
title = {Joint Optimization for Machine Translation System Combination},
booktitle = {In Proceedings of EMNLP},
year = {2009},
month = {August},
abstract = {System combination has emerged as a powerful method for machine translation (MT). This paper pursues a joint optimization strategy for combining outputs from multiple MT systems, where word alignment, ordering, and lexical selection decisions are made jointly according to a set of feature functions combined in a single log-linear model. The decoding algorithm is described in detail and a set of new features that support this joint decoding approach is proposed. The approach is evaluated in comparison to state-of-the-art confusion-network-based system combination methods using equivalent features and shown to outperform them significantly.},
publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
url = {http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/research/publication/joint-optimization-for-machine-translation-system-combination/},
edition = {In Proceedings of EMNLP},
}