The use of a structural n-gram language model in generation-heavy hybrid machine translation

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3123, Issue , 2004, Pages 61-69

  Habash, Nizar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

HYBRID MACHINE TRANSLATION; MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEMS; N-GRAM LANGUAGE MODELS; N-GRAM MODELING; N-GRAMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION; RUNTIMES; TRANSLATION QUALITY;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 35048826742     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-27823-8_7     Document Type: Article

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