Semi-supervised model adaptation for statistical machine translation

Machine Translation

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 77-94

  Ueffing, Nicola ^a   Haffari, Gholamreza ^b   Sarkar, Anoop ^b  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Domain adaptation; Model adaptation; Self training; Semi supervised learning; Statistical machine translation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; INFORMATION THEORY; LINGUISTICS; SPEECH TRANSMISSION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DATA SETS; DOMAIN ADAPTATION; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATIONS; LANGUAGE MODELLING; MODEL ADAPTATION; SELF-TRAINING; SEMI-SUPERVISED; SEMI-SUPERVISED LEARNING; SOURCE LANGUAGE; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEMS; TARGET LANGUAGES; TRANSLATION QUALITY;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 49549097126     PISSN: 09226567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10590-008-9036-3     Document Type: Article

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