Improving transliteration with precise alignment of phoneme chunks and using contextual features

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Volumn 3411, Issue , 2005, Pages 106-117

  Gao, Wei ^a   Wong, Kam Fai ^a   Lam, Wai ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

CONTEXTUAL FEATURES; MACHINE TRANSLATION (MT); PROBABILITY ESTIMATION; SOURCE CHANNELS;

INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

EID: 24344445266     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-31871-2_10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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