Confidence estimation for machine translation

COLING 2004 - Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Blatz, John ^a   Fitzgerald, Erin ^b   Foster, George ^c   Gandrabur, Simona ^d   Goutte, Cyril ^e   Kulesza, Alex ^f   Sanchis, Alberto ^g   Ueffing, Nicola ^h  

^a Department of Economics

^b Wesleyan Johns Hopkins and Texas A and M   (United States)

^c LTRC   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^e XRCE   (France)

^f Harvard

^g UPV   (Spain)

^h RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; MACHINE TRANSLATION;

CONFIDENCE ESTIMATION; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; MT EVALUATIONS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 85118141803     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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