An empirical study on computing consensus translations from multiple machine translation systems

EMNLP-CoNLL 2007 - Proceedings of the 2007 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 986-995

  Macherey, Wolfgang ^a   Och, Franz Josef ^a  

^a GOOGLE INC   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; MACHINE TRANSLATION EVALUATIONS; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; MULTIPLE MACHINE; RESEARCH SYSTEM; SYSTEM COMBINATION; TRANSLATION QUALITY; TRANSLATION SYSTEMS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; INFORMATION THEORY; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 67149133490     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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