Exploring the planet of the APEs: A comparative study of state-of-the-art methods for MT automatic post-editing

ACL-IJCNLP 2015 - 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 7th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2015, Pages 156-161

  Chatterjee, Rajen ^a,b   Weller, Marion ^c   Negri, Matteo ^b   Turchi, Marco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b FONDAZIONE BRUNO KESSLER   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; QUALITY CONTROL; LINGUISTICS; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

COMPARATIVE STUDIES; DECODING PROCESS; DOWNSTREAM-PROCESSING; LANGUAGE PAIRS; OUTPUT QUALITY; STATE-OF-THE-ART METHODS; SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS; TRANSLATION QUALITY; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84944044237     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/v1/p15-2026     Document Type: Conference Paper

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