Minimum Bayes-Risk Word Alignments of Bilingual Texts

Proceedings of the 2002 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2002

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 140-147

  Kumar, Shankar ^a   Byrne, William ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ALIGNMENT ERROR; BILINGUAL TEXTS; EXPECTED RISK; LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS; LOSS FUNCTIONS; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; MINIMUM BAYES RISK; MODEL BASED APPROACH; STATISTIC MODELING; WORD ALIGNMENT;

ALIGNMENT;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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