Target-centric features for translation quality estimation

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 329-334

  Hokamp, Chris ^a   Calixto, Iacer ^a   Wagner, Joachim ^a   Zhang, Jian ^a  

^a DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

FEATURES DESIGN; FEATURES SETS; FOLLOW UP; OPTIMIZED PARAMETER; POOR PERFORMANCE; POST-EDITING; QUALITY ESTIMATION; TRANSLATION QUALITY;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 85083029657     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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