Toward Determining the Comprehensibility of Machine Translations

NAACL-HLT 2012 - Predicting and Improving Text Readability for Target Reader Populations, PITR 2012, Proceedings of the Workshop

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1-7

  Maney, Tucker ^a   Sibert, Linda ^a   Perzanowski, Dennis ^a   Gupta, Kalyan ^b   Schmidt Nielsen, Astrid ^b  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b KNEXUS RESEARCH CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; MACHINE TRANSLATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION; GROWING DEMAND; HIGH QUALITY; INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITIES; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; OVERALL QUALITY; TEST SETS; TRANSLATION SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

EID: 85119988861     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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