Extrinsic evaluation of web-crawlers in machine translation: A case study on Croatian-English for the tourism domain

Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, EAMT 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 221-224

  Toral, Antonio ^a   Rubino, Raphael ^b   Esplà Gomis, Miquel ^c   Pirinen, Tommi ^a   Way, Andy ^a   Ramírez Sánchez, Gema ^b  

^a DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

^b Avenida de La Universidad S n   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; ONLINE SYSTEMS;

CROATIANS; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; MULTILINGUAL WEB SITES; PARALLEL CORPORA; WEB CRAWLERS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 85000386351     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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