Minimum Bayes Risk combination of translation hypotheses from alternative morphological decompositions

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 73-76

  de Gispert, Adrià ^a   Virpioja, Sami ^b   Kurimo, Mikko ^b   Byrne, William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DECOMPOSITION; MACHINE TRANSLATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

FINNISH; MINIMUM BAYES RISK; N-BEST LIST; PERFORMANCE; SIMPLE++; SOURCE LANGUAGE; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEM;

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

EID: 77958047314     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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