Learning dependency translation models as collections of finite-state head transducers

Computational Linguistics

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 45-60

  Alshawi, Hiyan ^a   Douglas, Shona ^a   Bangalore, Srinivas ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOPHAGES; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING;

CORRELATION STATISTICS; FINITE STATE; FINITE STATE TRANSDUCERS; LEARNING DEPENDENCIES; SEARCH ALGORITHMS; TRAINING EXAMPLE; TRAINING METHODS; TRANSLATION MODELS;

TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 0039330854     PISSN: 08912017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089120100561629     Document Type: Article

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