Can automatic post-editing make MT more meaningful?

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

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 111-118

  Parton, Kristen ^a   Habash, Nizar ^a   McKeown, Kathleen ^a   Iglesias, Gonzalo ^b   De Gispert, Adrià ^b  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

COMPUTER IN THE LOOPS; CRITICAL PROBLEMS; CROSS-LINGUAL QUESTION ANSWERING; FEEDBACK APPROACH; HUMAN EVALUATION; MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEMS; POST EDITORS; POST-EDITING;

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

EID: 85001099591     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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