Distributed language modeling for N-best list re-ranking

COLING/ACL 2006 - EMNLP 2006: 2006 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 216-223

  Zhang, Ying ^a   Hildebrand, Almut Silja ^a   Vogel, Stephan ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

CLIENT /SERVER; DISTRIBUTED LANGUAGES; LARGE CORPORA; N-BEST LIST; RE-RANKING;

MODELING LANGUAGES;

EID: 34547495897     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1610075.1610108     Document Type: Conference Paper

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