Minimum Error Rate Training semiring

Proceedings of the 15th International Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, EAMT 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 241-248

  Sokolov, Artem ^a   Yvon, François ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENERIC IMPLEMENTATION; INFORMATION SOURCES; MINIMUM ERROR RATE; SEMI-RING; SMT SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION;

INFORMATION THEORY;

SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84857523643     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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