A simplex Armijo downhill algorithm for optimizing statistical machine translation decoding parameters

NAACL-HLT 2009 - Human Language Technologies: 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Short Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 21-24

  Zhao, Bing ^a   Chen, Shengyuan ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DECODING; MACHINE TRANSLATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

AUTOMATIC EVALUATION; DERIVATIVE-FREE; END-USERS; EVALUATION METRICS; LINE SEARCHES; METRIC SCORES; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; OPTIMIZING PARAMETERS; SEARCHING DIRECTION; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION;

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

EID: 77955549746     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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