Measuring user productivity in machine translation enhanced computer assisted translation

AMTA 2012 - Proceedings of the 10th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Federico, Marcello ^a   Cattelan, Alessandro ^b   Trombetti, Marco ^b  

^a FONDAZIONE BRUNO KESSLER   (Italy)

^b Translated Srl   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; PRODUCTIVITY;

COMPUTER ASSISTED; FIELD TEST; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; POST-EDITING; PRODUCTIVITY GAIN; TRANSLATION MEMORY; TRANSLATION TOOLS; USER PRODUCTIVITY;

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

EID: 84964926816     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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