DCU-Symantec Submission for the WMT 2012 Quality Estimation Task

WMT 2012 - 7th Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, Proceedings of the Workshop

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 138-144

  Rubino, Raphael ^a,b   Foster, Jennifer ^a   Wagner, Joachim ^a   Roturier, Johann ^a   Kaljahi, Rasul Samad Zadeh ^a   Hollowood, Fred ^a  

^a DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

^b Symantec   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DATA MINING; MACHINE LEARNING; STATISTICS; SYNTACTICS;

DATA LIMITATIONS; DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY; FEATURE-BASED; FEATURES SETS; MACHINE LEARNING METHODS; QUALITY ESTIMATION; SETS OF FEATURES; SYMANTEC; TOPIC MODELING; TRANSLATION QUALITY;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 84890314216     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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