A hybrid architecture for robust MT using LFG-DOP

Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 441-471

  Way, Andy ^a  

^a DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Data oriented parsing; Hybrid machine translation; Lexical functional grammar

Indexed keywords

EID: 22844456664     PISSN: 0952813X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/095281399146490     Document Type: Article

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