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Confidence estimation for machine translation
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We present a detailed study of confidence estimation for machine translation. Various methods for determining whether MT output is correct are investigated, for both whole sentences and words. Since the notion of correctness is not intuitively clear in this context, different ways of defining it are proposed. We present results on data from the NIST 2003 Chinese-to-English MT evaluation.
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- Authors
- Blatz, J., Fitzgerald, E., Foster, G., Gandrabur, S., Goutte, C., Kulesza, A., Sanchis, A., & Ueffing, N.
- Venue
- Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Computational Linguistics - COLING '04
- Published
- 2004
- Pages
- 315-es
- ISSN
- 1525-2477 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2144746247
- Cited by
- 351
- References
- 30
- FWCI
- 7.59
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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