A structure-based model for Chinese organization name translation

ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Chen, Yufeng ^a,b   Zong, Chengqing ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

Author keywords

Alignment; Chunk; Hierarchical derivation; Machine translation; Named entity; Organization name; Rules extraction; Structural analysis; Synchronous context free grammar

Indexed keywords

MACHINE TRANSLATION; RULES EXTRACTION; SYNCHRONOUS CONTEXT-FREE GRAMMAR;

LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TEXT PROCESSING; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 39149114710     PISSN: 15300226     EISSN: 15583430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1330291.1330292     Document Type: Article

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