Boosting-based system combination for Machine Translation

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 739-748

  Xiao, Tong ^a   Zhu, Jingbo ^a   Zhu, Muhua ^a   Wang, Huizhen ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASELINE SYSTEMS; BOOSTING ALGORITHM; EVALUATION TEST; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; SMT SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; SYSTEM COMBINATION; TRANSLATION SYSTEMS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 80053290258     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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