Preliminary experiments on using users' post-editions to enhance a SMT system

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 161-168

  Potet, Marion ^a   Esperança Rodier, Emmanuelle ^a   Blanchon, Hervé ^a   Besacier, Laurent ^a  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC METRICS; SMALL SIZE; SMT SYSTEMS; SUBJECTIVE ANALYSIS; TRANSLATION SYSTEMS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

INFORMATION THEORY;

EID: 84857618005     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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