Improving the post-editing experience using translation recommendation: A user study

AMTA 2010 - 9th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  He, Yifan ^a   Ma, Yanjun ^a   Roturier, Johann ^b   Way, Andy ^a   Van Genabith, Josef ^a  

^a DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

^b SYMANTEC RESEARCH LABS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PERFORMANCE STATISTICS; POTENTIAL USERS; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; TRANSLATION MEMORIES; USER STUDY;

INFORMATION THEORY;

SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84863152454     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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