Learning performance of a machine translation system: A statistical and computational analysis

3rd Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, WMT 2008 at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 35-43

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MACHINE TRANSLATION;

COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; CURRENT PERFORMANCE; LEARNING CAPABILITIES; LEARNING CURVES; LEARNING PERFORMANCE; MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; PERFORMANCE EXTRAPOLATION; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEM;

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

EID: 79955505776     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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