Combining outputs from multiple machine translation systems

NAACL HLT 2007 - Human Language Technologies 2007: The Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Main Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 228-235

  Rosti, Antti Veikko I ^a   Ayan, Necip Fazil ^b   Xiang, Bing ^a   Matsoukas, Spyros ^a   Schwartz, Richard ^a   Dorr, Bonnie J ^b  

^a BBN TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMBINATION METHOD; LINGUISTIC KNOWLEDGE; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; MULTIPLE MACHINE; MULTIPLE SYSTEMS; SYSTEM COMBINATION; TEST SETS; WORD LEVEL;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; INFORMATION THEORY;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 84858423605     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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