Segment choice models: Feature-rich models for global distortion in statistical machine translation

HLT-NAACL 2006 - Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Main Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 25-32

  Kuhn, Roland ^a   Yuen, Denis ^a   Simard, Michel ^a   Paul, Patrick ^a   Foster, George ^a   Joanis, Eric ^a   Johnson, Howard ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOICE MODEL; CONFIDENCE LEVELS; DISTORTION MODEL; LANGUAGE MODEL; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; OFFLINE; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; TEST DATA;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; INFORMATION THEORY;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 80053418011     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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