The repetition rate of text as a predictor of the effectiveness of machine translation adaptation

Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, AMTA 2014

Volumn 1, Issue , 2014, Pages 166-179

  Cettolo, Mauro ^a   Bertoldi, Nicola ^a   Federico, Marcello ^a  

^a FONDAZIONE BRUNO KESSLER   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

FEATURE VALUES; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; ON-LINE ADAPTATION; PERFORMANCE GAIN; REPETITION RATE; TEXT FEATURE; TRANSLATION QUALITY;

MACHINE TRANSLATION;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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