Feature Weight Optimization for Discourse-Level SMT

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 60-69

  Stymne, Sara ^a   Hardmeier, Christian ^a   Tiedemann, J¨org ^a   Nivre, Joakim ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; MACHINE TRANSLATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

DECODING PROCESS; FEATURE WEIGHT; SENTENCE LEVEL; SETS OF FEATURES; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; WEIGHT OPTIMIZATION;

DECODING;

EID: 85121784069     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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