Detecting inappropriate use of free online machine translation by language students - A special case of plagiarism detection

EAMT-2006 - 11th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 41-48

  Somers, Harold ^a   Gaspari, Federico ^a   Niño, Ana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MT EVALUATIONS; ONLINE MACHINES; PILOT EXPERIMENT; PLAGIARISM DETECTION; STYLOMETRY;

EXPERIMENTS; INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY; ONLINE SYSTEMS; TEACHING;

INFORMATION THEORY;

EID: 52449089370     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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