Collaborative Decoding: Partial Hypothesis Re-ranking Using Translation Consensus between Decoders

ACL-IJCNLP 2009 - Joint Conf. of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and 4th Int. Joint Conf. on Natural Language Processing of the AFNLP, Proceedings of the Conf.

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 585-592

  Li, Mu ^a   Duan, Nan ^b   Zhang, Dongdong ^a   Li, Chi Ho ^a   Zhou, Ming ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

^b TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; ITERATIVE DECODING; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

COLLABORATIVE DECODING; DATA SET; ITERATIVE DECODINGS; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; MULTIPLE MACHINE; N-BEST LIST; N-GRAMS; POST PROCESS; RE-RANKING; SYSTEM COMBINATION;

MACHINE TRANSLATION;

EID: 84863345633     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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