Using a grammar checker for evaluation and postprocessing of statistical machine translation

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 2175-2181

  Stymne, Sara ^a   Ahrenberg, Lars ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; ERROR CORRECTION; LINGUISTICS; SPEECH TRANSMISSION; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

AUTOMATIC METRICS; EVALUATION TOOL; GRAMMAR CHECKERS; HUMAN ERROR ANALYSIS; STANDARD METRICS; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION;

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

EID: 85001021838     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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