Fast and optimal decoding for machine translation

Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 154, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 127-143

  Germann, Ulrich ^a   Jahr, Michael ^b   Knight, Kevin ^a   Marcu, Daniel ^a   Yamada, Kenji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Decoding; Machine translation; MT; SMT; Statistical machine translation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DECODING; INTEGER PROGRAMMING;

MACHINE TRANSLATION (MT); STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION (SMT);

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

EID: 1242310001     PISSN: 00043702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.artint.2003.06.001     Document Type: Article

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