Morpho-syntax based statistical methods for automatic sign language translation

EAMT-2006 - 11th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 169-177

  Stein, Daniel ^a   Jan, Bungeroth ^a   Ney, Hermann ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC TRANSLATION; LANGUAGE PAIRS; PHRASE-BASED STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; POST PROCESSING; SIGN LANGUAGE; WRITTEN TEXTS;

INFORMATION THEORY;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 48049101734     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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