Models of translational equivalence among words

Computational Linguistics

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 220-249

  Melamed, I Dan ^a  

^a D1 66F ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNCTION WORDS; HUMAN JUDGMENTS; LANGUAGE PAIRS; PARALLEL DATA; SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE; STATISTICAL TRANSLATION MODEL; TRANSLATION MODELS; TRANSLATIONAL EQUIVALENCE;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 0040440624     PISSN: 08912017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089120100561683     Document Type: Article

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