Limitations of MT quality estimation supervised systems: The tails prediction problem

COLING 2014 - 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of COLING 2014: Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 2205-2216

  Moreau, Erwan ^a   Vogel, Carl ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS;

PREDICTION PROBLEM; QUALITY ESTIMATION; SUPERVISED SYSTEMS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84943804461     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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