Don't until the final verb wait: Reinforcement learning for simultaneous machine translation

EMNLP 2014 - 2014 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1342-1352

  Grissom, Alvin C ^a   Boyd Graber, Jordan ^a   He, He ^b   Morgan, John ^b   Daumé, Hal ^b  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING;

EVALUATION METRICS; LEARNING-BASED APPROACH; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; SOURCE MATERIAL; TRANSLATION MODELS; TRANSLATION STRATEGIES; TRUST PREDICTIONS; WORD ORDERS;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 84961288938     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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