Word- and sentence-level confidence measures for machine translation

Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, EAMT 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 104-111

  Raybaud, Sylvain ^a   Lavecchia, Caroline ^a   Langlois, David ^a   Smaïli, Kamel ^a  

^a LORIA   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION TASKS; CONFIDENCE MEASURE; F-MEASURE; LINGUISTIC FEATURES; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; MUTUAL INFORMATIONS; N-GRAM LANGUAGE MODELS; PROBABILITY OF CORRECTNESS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

INFORMATION THEORY;

EID: 80054907427     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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