Crisis MT: Developing A Cookbook for MT in Crisis Situations

WMT 2011 - 6thWorkshop on Statistical Machine Translation, Proceedings of the Workshop

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 501-511

  Lewis, William D ^a   Munro, Robert ^b   Vogel, Stephan ^c  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TEXT MESSAGING; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

AID AGENCIES; BLOG POSTINGS; CRISES SITUATIONS; CRISIS EVENTS; INTEGRAL PART; RAPID RESPONSE; RELIEF EFFORTS; STANDARD TOOLS; UNDER-RESOURCED LANGUAGES;

ARSENALS;

EID: 85049790068     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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