Tuning Machine Translation Parameters with SPSA

2006 International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, IWSLT 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 190-196

  Lambert, Patrik ^a   Banchs, Rafael E ^a  

^a TALP Research Center   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; OPTIMIZATION; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

GLOBALOPTIMUM; LOCAL MINIMUMS; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; SCALING FACTORS; SIMULTANEOUS PERTURBATION STOCHASTIC APPROXIMATION; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEM; TRANSLATION PARAMETERS; TUNING MACHINE;

MACHINE TRANSLATION;

EID: 84857579737     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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