Minimum error rate training by sampling the translation lattice

EMNLP 2010 - Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 606-615

  Chatterjee, Samidh ^a   Cancedda, Nicola ^b  

^a Florida State University   (United States)

^b XEROX RESEARCH CENTRE EUROPE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOGLINEAR MODEL; MINIMUM ERROR RATE; N-BEST LIST; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEM;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DECODING; LAKES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 80053280250     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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