Egyptian Arabic to EnglishStatistical Machine Translation Systemfor NIST OpenMT’2015
Table 9: Results using a length-filtered vs. an unfiltered dataset for tuning.
['Genre', 'Test', 'TestG']
For SMS, using a filtered tuning set yields mixed results: we see a drop in BLEU on Test and a gain on TestG. For CTS, filtering helped both on Test and on TextG, with a gain on the former of +0.63.