Domain adaptation in SMT of user-generated forum content guided by OOV word reduction: Normalization and/or supplementary data?

Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, EAMT 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 169-176

  Banerjee, Pratyush ^a   Naskar, Sudip Kumar ^a   Roturier, Johann ^b   Way, Andy ^c   Van Genabith, Josef ^a  

^a DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

^b Ballycoolin Business Park   (Ireland)

^c Applied Language Solutions   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

DOMAIN ADAPTATION; SEMI-AUTOMATICS; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; SUPPLEMENTARY DATA; TARGET LANGUAGE; TRAINING DATA ACQUISITIONS; TRAINING MATERIAL; USER-GENERATED;

DATA ACQUISITION;

EID: 85001084850     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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