Sentence alignment using P-NNT and GMM

Computer Speech and Language

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 594-608

  Fattah, Mohamed Abdel ^a   Bracewell, David B ^a   Ren, Fuji ^a,b   Kuroiwa, Shingo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

English Arabic parallel corpus; Gaussian mixture model; Parallel corpora; Probabilistic neural network; Sentence alignment

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS;

ENGLISH/ARABIC PARALLEL CORPUS; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL (GMM); PARALLEL CORPORA; SENTENCE ALIGNMENT;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 34249950938     PISSN: 08852308     EISSN: 10958363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csl.2007.01.002     Document Type: Article

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