Computing consensus translation from multiple machine translation systems using enhanced hypotheses alignment

EACL 2006 - 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 33-40

  Matusov, Evgeny ^a   Ueffing, Nicola ^a   Ney, Hermann ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFUSION NETWORKS; CONSENSUS TRANSLATIONS; LARGE VOCABULARY; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; MULTIPLE MACHINE; SPEECH TRANSLATION; STATISTICAL ALIGNMENTS; TRANSLATION QUALITY;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ALIGNMENT;

EID: 79960276653     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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