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Findings of the Third Shared Task on Multimodal Machine Translation

Year: 2018

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: We present the results from the third shared task on multimodal machine translation.In this task a source sentence in English is supplemented by an image and participating systems are required to generate a translation for such a sentence into German, French or Czech.The image can be used in addition to (or instead of) the source sentence.This year the task was extended with a third target language (Czech) and a new test set.In addition, a variant of this task was introduced with its own test set where the source sentence is given in multiple languages: English, French and German, and participating systems are required to generate a translation in Czech.Seven teams submitted 45 different systems to the two variants of the task.Compared to last year, the performance of the multimodal submissions improved, but text-only systems remain competitive.

DOI: 10.18653/v1/w18-6402

Authors: Loïc Barrault, Fethi Bougares, Lucia Specia, Chiraag Lala, Desmond Elliott, Stella Frank