Word reordering and a dynamic programming beam search algorithm for statistical machine translation

Computational Linguistics

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 97-133

  Tillmann, Christoph ^a,b   Ney, Hermann ^b  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; PROGRAM TRANSLATORS; TRAVELING SALESMAN PROBLEM;

BEAM SEARCH ALGORITHMS; ERROR CRITERION; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION; SEARCH ALGORITHMS; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; TARGET LANGUAGE; TRANSLATION MODELS;

DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING;

EID: 0041877353     PISSN: 08912017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089120103321337458     Document Type: Article

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