An intelligent agent that autonomously learns how to translate

Proceedings - 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, IAT 2009

Volumn 2, Issue , 2009, Pages 12-19

  Turchi, Marco ^a   De Bie, Tijl ^a   Cristianini, Nello ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Machine translation; Self learning; Stability analysis

Indexed keywords

CROSS-LANGUAGE RETRIEVAL; FEED-BACK LOOP; FOREIGN LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE MODEL; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; REAL-WORLD TASK; SELF-LEARNING; STABILITY ANALYSIS; STABILITY ISSUES; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; TRAINING SETS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; CONTROL SYSTEM STABILITY; INFORMATION THEORY; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TEACHING;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 79953850059     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WI-IAT.2009.120     Document Type: Conference Paper

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