Adaptive quality estimation for machine translation

52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2014 - Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2014, Pages 710-720

  Turchi, Marco ^a   Anastasopoulos, Antonios ^c   De Souza, José G C ^a,b   Negri, Matteo ^a  

^a FONDAZIONE BRUNO KESSLER   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^c NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

ADAPTIVE QUALITY; ADAPTIVE SOLUTION; AUTOMATIC ESTIMATION; DIFFERENT DISTRIBUTIONS; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; OPERATING CONDITION; QUALITY ESTIMATION; TESTING CONDITIONS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84906930613     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/v1/p14-1067     Document Type: Conference Paper

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