Confidence Estimation for Machine Translation

نویسندگان

  • John Blatz
  • Erin Fitzgerald
  • George F. Foster
  • Simona Gandrabur
  • Cyril Goutte
  • Alex Kulesza
  • Alberto Sanchís
  • Nicola Ueffing
چکیده

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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تاریخ انتشار 2004