Referential translation machines for predicting translation quality

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 313-321

  Bicici, Ergun ^a   Way, Andy ^a  

^a DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; FORECASTING; SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

BILINGUALS; COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING; DATA SET; MACHINE MODELLING; PERFORMANCE; QUALITY ESTIMATION; SIMILARITY JUDGEMENTS; SUBTASK; TRANSLATION MACHINES; TRANSLATION QUALITY;

MACHINE TRANSLATION;

EID: 84994796236     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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