Training phrase translation models with leaving-one-out

ACL 2010 - 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 475-484

  Wuebker, Joern ^a   Mauser, Arne ^a   Ney, Hermann ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

OVERFITTING; PHRASE-BASED STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; SIDE EFFECT; TABLE SIZE; TRAINING DATA; TRANSLATION MODELS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 80053239127     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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