Are multiple reference translations necessary? Investigating the value of paraphrased reference translations in parameter optimization

AMTA 2008 - 8th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Madnani, Nitin ^a   Resnik, Philip ^a   Dorr, Bonnie J ^a   Schwartz, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b BBN TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

FEATURE WEIGHT; LOGLINEAR MODEL; MULTIPLE REFERENCES; PARAMETER OPTIMIZATION; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEM; TRANSLATION QUALITY;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

INFORMATION THEORY;

EID: 84858052871     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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