Machine translation and monolingual postediting: The AFRL WMT-14 system

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 186-194

  Schwartz, Lane O B ^a   Anderson, Timothy ^a   Gwinnup, Jeremy ^b   Young, Katherine M ^c  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b GENERAL DYNAMICS   (United States)

^c N Space Analysis   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

IMPROVE PERFORMANCE; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; PHRASE-BASED MODELS; POST-EDITING; TEST SETS;

MACHINE TRANSLATION;

EID: 85065444676     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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