{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/the-helsinki-neural-machine-translation","title":"The Helsinki Neural Machine Translation System","arxiv_id":"1708.05942","date":"2017-08-20","proceeding":"WS 2017 9","authors":["Robert Östling","Yves Scherrer","Jörg Tiedemann","Gongbo Tang","Tommi Nieminen"],"abstract":"We introduce the Helsinki Neural Machine Translation system (HNMT) and how it\nis applied in the news translation task at WMT 2017, where it ranked first in\nboth the human and automatic evaluations for English--Finnish. We discuss the\nsuccess of English--Finnish translations and the overall advantage of NMT over\na strong SMT baseline. We also discuss our submissions for English--Latvian,\nEnglish--Chinese and Chinese--English.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1708.05942v1","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1708.05942v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"the-helsinki-neural-machine-translation","repo_url":"https://github.com/robertostling/hnmt","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"machine-translation","task_name":"Machine Translation"},{"task_slug":"nmt","task_name":"NMT"},{"task_slug":"translation","task_name":"Translation"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":null,"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}