The Tenjinno machine translation competition

Bradford Starkie; Menno van Zaanen; Dominique Estival

doi:10.1007/11872436_18

The Tenjinno machine translation competition

Bradford Starkie, Menno van Zaanen, Dominique Estival

School of Computing

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Abstract

This paper describes the Tenjinno Machine Translation Competition held as part of the International Colloquium on Grammatical Inference 2006. The competition aimed to promote the development of new and better practical grammatical inference algorithms used in machine translation. Tenjinno focuses on formal models used in machine translation. We discuss design issues and decisions made when creating the competition. For the purpose of setting the competition tasks, a measure of the complexity of learning a transducer was developed. This measure has enabled us to compare the competition tasks to other published results, and it can be seen that the problems solved in the competition were of a greater complexity and were solved with lower word error rates than other published results. In addition the complexity measures and benchmark problems can be used to track the progress of the state-of-the-art into the future.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Grammatical inference
Subtitle of host publication	algorithms and applications : 8th international colloquium, ICGI 2006, Tokyo, Japan, September 20-22, 2006 : proceedings
Editors	Yasubumi Sakakibara, Satoshi Kobayashi, Kengo Sato, Tetsuro Nishino, Etsuji Tomita
Place of Publication	Berlin ; New York
Publisher	Springer, Springer Nature
Pages	214-226
Number of pages	13
ISBN (Print)	9783540452645
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/11872436_18
Publication status	Published - 2006
Event	International Colloquium on Grammatical Inference (8th : 2006) - Duration: 20 Sept 2006 → 22 Sept 2006

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Name	Lecture notes in computer science
Publisher	Springer-Verlag
Volume	4201

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Conference	International Colloquium on Grammatical Inference (8th : 2006)
Period	20/09/06 → 22/09/06

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Starkie, B., van Zaanen, M., & Estival, D. (2006). The Tenjinno machine translation competition. In Y. Sakakibara, S. Kobayashi, K. Sato, T. Nishino, & E. Tomita (Eds.), Grammatical inference: algorithms and applications : 8th international colloquium, ICGI 2006, Tokyo, Japan, September 20-22, 2006 : proceedings (pp. 214-226). (Lecture notes in computer science; Vol. 4201). Springer, Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/11872436_18

Starkie, Bradford ; van Zaanen, Menno ; Estival, Dominique. / The Tenjinno machine translation competition. Grammatical inference: algorithms and applications : 8th international colloquium, ICGI 2006, Tokyo, Japan, September 20-22, 2006 : proceedings. editor / Yasubumi Sakakibara ; Satoshi Kobayashi ; Kengo Sato ; Tetsuro Nishino ; Etsuji Tomita. Berlin ; New York : Springer, Springer Nature, 2006. pp. 214-226 (Lecture notes in computer science).

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Starkie, B, van Zaanen, M & Estival, D 2006, The Tenjinno machine translation competition. in Y Sakakibara, S Kobayashi, K Sato, T Nishino & E Tomita (eds), Grammatical inference: algorithms and applications : 8th international colloquium, ICGI 2006, Tokyo, Japan, September 20-22, 2006 : proceedings. Lecture notes in computer science, vol. 4201, Springer, Springer Nature, Berlin ; New York, pp. 214-226, International Colloquium on Grammatical Inference (8th : 2006), 20/09/06. https://doi.org/10.1007/11872436_18

The Tenjinno machine translation competition. / Starkie, Bradford; van Zaanen, Menno; Estival, Dominique.
Grammatical inference: algorithms and applications : 8th international colloquium, ICGI 2006, Tokyo, Japan, September 20-22, 2006 : proceedings. ed. / Yasubumi Sakakibara; Satoshi Kobayashi; Kengo Sato; Tetsuro Nishino; Etsuji Tomita. Berlin ; New York: Springer, Springer Nature, 2006. p. 214-226 (Lecture notes in computer science; Vol. 4201).

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Starkie B, van Zaanen M, Estival D. The Tenjinno machine translation competition. In Sakakibara Y, Kobayashi S, Sato K, Nishino T, Tomita E, editors, Grammatical inference: algorithms and applications : 8th international colloquium, ICGI 2006, Tokyo, Japan, September 20-22, 2006 : proceedings. Berlin ; New York: Springer, Springer Nature. 2006. p. 214-226. (Lecture notes in computer science). doi: 10.1007/11872436_18

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