Measuring MT adequacy using latent semantic analysis

AMTA 2006 - Proceedings of the 7th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation of the Americas: Visions for the Future of Machine Translation

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 176-184

  Reeder, Florence ^a  

^a MITRE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTENT MEASUREMENTS; LATENT SEMANTIC ANALYSIS; MACHINE TRANSLATION EVALUATIONS; SEMANTIC CONTENT; SOURCE LANGUAGE; TARGET LANGUAGE; VARIOUS CONFIGURATION;

EXPERIMENTS; SEMANTICS;

INFORMATION THEORY;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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