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BBN submitted system combination outputs for Czech-English, German-English, Spanish- English, and French-English language pairs. All combinations were based on confusion network decoding. The confusion networks were built using incremental hypothesis …...

We present minimum Bayes-risk system com- bination, a method that integrates consen- sus decoding and system combination into a unified multi-system minimum Bayes-risk (MBR) technique. Unlike other MBR meth- ods …...

Minimum Error Rate Training (MERT) re- mains one of the preferred methods for tun- ing linear parameters in machine translation systems, yet it faces significant issues. First, MERT is an …...