UEdin: Translating L1 Phrases in L2 Context using Context-Sensitive SMT
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We describe our systems for the SemEval 2014 Task 5: L2 writing assistant where a system has to find appropriate translations of L1 segments in a given L2 context. We participated in three out of four possible language pairs (English-Spanish, FrenchEnglish and Dutch-English) and achieved the best performance for all our submitted systems according to word-based accuracy. Our models are based on phrasebased machine translation systems and combine topical context information and language model scoring.
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