Predicting success in machine translation

EMNLP 2008 - 2008 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference: A Meeting of SIGDAT, a Special Interest Group of the ACL

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 745-754

  Birch, Alexandra ^a   Osborne, Miles ^a   Koehn, Philipp ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

EUROPEAN LANGUAGES; EXPLANATORY VARIABLES; LANGUAGE PAIRS; MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEMS; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; MORPHOLOGICAL COMPLEXITY; TARGET LANGUAGE;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 80053221822     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1613715.1613809     Document Type: Conference Paper

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