Leveraging multiple languages to improve statistical MT word alignments

Proceedings of ASRU 2005: 2005 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 92-97

  Filali, Karim ^a   Bilmes, Jeff ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SET THEORY; STATISTICAL METHODS; WORD PROCESSING;

ART ALIGNMENT MODEL;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 33846204376     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASRU.2005.1566493     Document Type: Conference Paper

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