Learning to translate with multiple objectives

50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2012 - Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-10

  Duh, Kevin ^a   Sudoh, Katsuhito ^a   Wu, Xianchao ^a   Tsukada, Hajime ^a   Nagata, Masaaki ^a  

^a NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEMS; MT EVALUATIONS; MULTI OBJECTIVE; MULTIPLE OBJECTIVES; OVERALL QUALITY; PARETO-OPTIMALITY; SINGLE OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; TRANSLATION QUALITY;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 84878172765     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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