Application of word-level confidence measures in interactive statistical machine translation

European Association for Machine Translation, EAMT 2005 - 10th Annual Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 262-270

  Ueffing, Nicola ^a   Ney, Hermann ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFIDENCE ESTIMATION; CONFIDENCE MEASURE; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; INTERACTIVE SYSTEM; NOVEL METHODS; PREDICTION ACCURACY; PREDICTION PERFORMANCE; PREDICTION QUALITY; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEM;

FORECASTING;

INFORMATION THEORY;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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