Large-scale multitask learning for machine translation quality estimation

2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL HLT 2016 - Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 558-567

  Shah, Kashif ^a   Specia, Lucia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; DATA HANDLING; LARGE DATASET; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

DIFFERENT DOMAINS; LARGE-SCALE DATASETS; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; MULTIPLE LANGUAGES; MULTITASK LEARNING; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING APPLICATIONS; SHARED REPRESENTATIONS; STATE OF THE ART;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84994131779     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.18653/v1/n16-1069     Document Type: Conference Paper

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