Using paraphrases for parameter tuning in statistical machine translation

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 120-127

  Madnani, Nitin ^a   Ayan, Necip Fazil ^a   Resnik, Philip ^a   Dorr, Bonnie J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; MACHINE TRANSLATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

FEATURE WEIGHT; LOGLINEAR MODEL; PARAMETERS TUNING; QUALITY METRICES; STATE OF THE ART; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEM; SYSTEM USE; TRANSLATION QUALITY;

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

EID: 84880192089     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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