Experiments with a Hindi-to-English Transfer-Based MT System Under a Miserly Data Scenario

ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 143-163

  Lavie, Alon ^a   Vogel, Stephan ^a   Levin, Lori ^a   Peterson, Erik ^a   Probst, Katharina ^a   Llitjós, Ariadna Font ^a   Reynolds, Rachel ^a   Carbonell, Jaime ^a   Cohen, Richard ^b  

^a Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Design; Evaluation; example based machine translation; Experimentation; Hindi; Languages; limited data resources; machine learning; Measurement; multiengine machine translation; statistical translation; transfer rules

Indexed keywords

EID: 35048819551     PISSN: 15300226     EISSN: 15583430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/974740.974747     Document Type: Article

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