Choosing the best machine translation system to translate a sentence by using only source-language information

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 97-104

  Sánchez Martínez, Felipe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTING RESOURCE; EUROPEAN LANGUAGES; MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEMS; MAXIMUM ENTROPY; SELECTION OF THE BEST;

FEATURE EXTRACTION; INFORMATION THEORY;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 84857534373     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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