Fluency constraints for minimum bayes-risk decoding of statistical machine translation lattices

Coling 2010 - 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 71-79

  Blackwood, Graeme ^a   De Gispert, Adrià ^a   Byrne, William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

CONFIDENCE MEASURE; CONFIDENCE REGION; HYPOTHESIS SPACE; ROBUST APPROACHES; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DECODING; INFORMATION THEORY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 80053246918     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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