Constrained grammatical error correction using statistical machine translation

CoNLL 2013 - 17th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, Proceedings of the Shared Task

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 52-61

  Yuan, Zheng ^a   Felice, Mariano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; ERROR CORRECTION; SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

AUTOMATIC CORRECTIONS; GRAMMATICAL ERRORS; LEARNER CORPORA; LIMITED TRAINING DATA; PHRASE-BASED STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; SMT SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 85072751565     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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