HMM word and phrase alignment for statistical machine translation

HLT/EMNLP 2005 - Human Language Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 169-176

  Deng, Yonggang ^a   Byrne, William ^a,b  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

ENGLISH WORD; HMM-BASED; IBM MODELS; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; WORD ALIGNMENT;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 34547250344     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1220575.1220597     Document Type: Conference Paper

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