Comparing example-based and statistical machine translation

Natural Language Engineering

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 295-309

  Way, Andy ^a   Gough, Nano ^a  

^a DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TEXT PROCESSING;

EXAMPLE BASED MACHINE TRANSLATION (EBMT); STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION (SMT);

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 25844441555     PISSN: 13513249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1351324905003888     Document Type: Article

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