Quality Estimation for Machine Translation output using linguistic analysis and decoding features

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

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 84-90

  Avramidis, Eleftherios ^a  

^a GERMAN RESEARCH CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DFKI   (Germany)

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Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MACHINE TRANSLATION; QUALITY CONTROL;

CLASSIFICATION TASKS; ESTIMATION PROBLEM; FEATURE SELECTION ALGORITHM; LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; MACHINE-LEARNING; QUALITY ESTIMATION; REGRESSION METHOD; STATISTICAL FEATURES; TEST SETS;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 85018125549     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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