Linguistic Features for Quality Estimation

WMT 2012 - 7th Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, Proceedings of the Workshop

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 96-103

  Felice, Mariano ^a   Specia, Lucia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; MACHINE TRANSLATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

FEATURE-BASED; LINGUISTIC FEATURES; LINGUISTIC INFORMATION; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; QUALITY ESTIMATION; REGRESSION ALGORITHMS; SENTENCE LEVEL;

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

EID: 85018125358     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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