Word-level confidence estimation for machine translation using phrase-based translation models

HLT/EMNLP 2005 - Human Language Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 763-770

  Ueffing, Nicola ^a   Ney, Hermann ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED; CONFIDENCE ESTIMATION; CONFIDENCE MEASURE; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEMS; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; TECHNICAL MANUALS; TRANSLATION MODELS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 80053259140     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1220575.1220671     Document Type: Conference Paper

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