New confidence measures for statistical machine translation

ICAART 2009 - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 61-68

  Raybaud, Sylvain ^a   Lavecchia, Caroline ^a   Langlois, David ^a   Smaïli, Kamel ^a  

^a LORIA   (France)

Author keywords

Confidence measure; Linguistic features language model; Mutual information; N gram language model; Statistical machine translation

Indexed keywords

CONFIDENCE MEASURE; LINGUISTIC FEATURES LANGUAGE MODEL; MUTUAL INFORMATION; N-GRAM LANGUAGE MODEL; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; INFORMATION THEORY; SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 70349445586     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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