Tuning Statistical Machine Translation parameters using perplexity

Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, IRI - 2005

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 338-343

  Nabhan, Ahmed Ragab ^a   Rafea, Ahmed ^b  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b The American University in Cairo   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; DECODING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES); TUNING;

GIZA++ SMT TOOLKIT; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION (SMT); TRANSLATION MODELS;

INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

EID: 33745697940     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IRI-05.2005.1506496     Document Type: Conference Paper

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