Consensus training for consensus decoding in machine translation

EMNLP 2009 - Proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: A Meeting of SIGDAT, a Special Interest Group of ACL, Held in Conjunction with ACL-IJCNLP 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1418-1427

  Pauls, Adam ^a   DeNero, John ^a   Klein, Dan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; DECODING;

DECODING METHODS; DYNAMIC PROGRAMS; EVALUATION MEASURES; LINEAR MACHINES; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; MINIMUM BAYES RISK; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; VITERBI DECODING;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 77956930935     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1699648.1699688     Document Type: Conference Paper

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