Prediction of learning curves in machine translation

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 22-30

  Kolachina, Prasanth ^a   Cancedda, Nicola ^b   Dymetman, Marc ^b   Venkatapathy, Sriram ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b XEROX RESEARCH CENTRE EUROPE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY LEVEL; LEARNING CURVES; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; PARALLEL CORPORA; PARALLEL DATA; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; TARGET LANGUAGE; TRAINING DATA;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

FORECASTING;

EID: 84878208192     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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