Measuring word alignment quality for statistical machine translation

Computational Linguistics

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 293-303

  Fraser, Alexander ^a,b   Marcu, Daniel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

ALIGNMENT ERROR; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; WORD ALIGNMENT;

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

EID: 34748883679     PISSN: 08912017     EISSN: 15309312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/coli.2007.33.3.293     Document Type: Article

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