The AMU system in the CoNLL-2014 shared task: Grammatical error correction by data-intensive and feature-rich statistical machine translation

CoNLL 2014 - 18th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, Proceedings of the Shared Task

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 25-33

  Junczys Dowmunt, Marcin ^a   Grundkiewicz, Roman ^a  

^a ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; ERROR CORRECTION;

DATA INTENSIVE; GRAMMATICAL ERRORS; LANGUAGE MODEL; OPTIMIZATION PROCEDURES; PARAMETER-TUNING; SCALE ERRORS; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; THIRD PLACES;

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

EID: 84923952438     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/v1/w14-1703     Document Type: Conference Paper

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