Using a mixture of N-Best lists from multiple MT systems in rank-sum-based confidence measure for MT outputs

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

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Akiba, Yasuhiro ^a,b   Sumita, Eiichiro ^a   Nakaiwa, Hiromi ^a   Yamamoto, Seiichi ^a   Okuno, Hiroshi G ^b  

^a ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; MACHINE TRANSLATION; MIXTURES; SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

CONFIDENCE MEASURE; MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEMS; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; MULTIPLE MACHINE; N-BEST LIST; RANK SUMS; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEM;

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

EID: 85119096966     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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