Searching for context: A study on document-level labels for translation quality estimation

EAMT 2015 - Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 121-128

  Scarton, Carolina ^a   Zampieri, Marcos ^b,c   Vela, Mihaela ^b   van Genabith, Josef ^b,c   Specia, Lucia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c GERMAN RESEARCH CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DFKI   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

AUTOMATIC MACHINES; DESIGNED EXPERIMENTS; DISCOURSE STRUCTURE; QUALITY ESTIMATION; SENTENCE LEVEL; TRANSLATION QUALITY;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84999276715     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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