Automatic induction of bilingual resources from aligned parallel corpora: Application to shallow-transfer machine translation

Machine Translation

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 227-245

  Caseli, Helena M ^a   Nunes, Maria Das Graças V ^a   Forcada, Mikel L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Automatic induction; Bilingual dictionary; Machine translation; Shallow transfer; Transfer rule

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MACHINE ORIENTED LANGUAGES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

AUTOMATIC INDUCTION; BILINGUAL DICTIONARY; MACHINE TRANSLATION; SHALLOW TRANSFER; TRANSFER RULE;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 41149111899     PISSN: 09226567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10590-007-9027-9     Document Type: Article

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