Efficient combination of confidence measures for machine translation

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 424-427

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

^a LORIA   (France)

Author keywords

Confidence measures; Statistical machine translation systems; Support vector machine; Support vector regression

Indexed keywords

CONFIDENCE MEASURE; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEM; SUPPORT VECTOR REGRESSIONS;

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; CONTENT BASED RETRIEVAL; ERRORS; LINGUISTICS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH TRANSMISSION; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; VECTORS;

INFORMATION THEORY;

EID: 70450164235     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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