Joint optimization for machine translation system combination

EMNLP 2009 - Proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: A Meeting of SIGDAT, a Special Interest Group of ACL, Held in Conjunction with ACL-IJCNLP 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1202-1211

  He, Xiaodong ^a   Toutanova, Kristina ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; DECODING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CONFUSION NETWORKS; DECODING ALGORITHM; JOINT OPTIMIZATION; MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEMS; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; SELECTION DECISIONS; STATE OF THE ART; SYSTEM COMBINATION;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 80053417853     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1699648.1699666     Document Type: Conference Paper

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