Building an English-Iraqi Arabic machine translation system for spoken utterances with limited resources

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 745-748

  Riesa, Jason ^a   Mohit, Behrang ^b   Knight, Kevin ^c   Marcu, Daniel ^c  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arabic; Limited resources; Speech translation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH TRANSMISSION; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

ARABIC; COMBINED TECHNIQUES; LIMITED RESOURCES; MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEMS; PARALLEL TRAINING; SPEECH TRANSLATION; STATE-OF-THE-ART SYSTEM; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEM;

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

EID: 44949187750     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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