Stochastic iterative alignment for machine translation evaluation

COLING/ACL 2006 - 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Main Conference Poster Sessions

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 539-546

  Liu, Ding ^a   Gildea, Daniel ^a  

^a University of Rochester   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; MACHINE TRANSLATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION;

AUTOMATIC EVALUATION; LONGEST COMMON SUBSEQUENCES; MACHINE TRANSLATION EVALUATIONS; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; N-GRAMS; SENTENCE LEVEL; STOCHASTICS; STRING ALIGNMENT;

STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

EID: 84860522903     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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