Novel reordering approaches in phrase-based statistical machine translation

Texts@ACL 2005 - Building and Using Parallel Texts: Data-Driven Machine Translation and Beyond, Proceedings of the Workshop

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 167-174

  Kanthak, Stephan ^a   Vilar, David ^a   Matusov, Evgeny ^a   Zens, Richard ^a   Ney, Hermann ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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Indexed keywords

AUTOMATA THEORY; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

MONOTONIC MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; ON DEMANDS; PHRASE-BASED STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; STATISTICAL TRANSLATION MODEL; TRANSLATION QUALITY; WORD LEVEL;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 34848901493     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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