Tuning as ranking

EMNLP 2011 - Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1352-1362

  Hopkins, Mark ^a   May, Jonathan ^a  

^a SDL Language Weaver   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LANGUAGE PAIRS; LARGE SCALE DATA; LINEAR BINARY CLASSIFIERS; SCALABLE METHODS; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; SCALABILITY;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 80053245150     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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