Inversion transduction grammar coverage of Arabic-English word alignment for tree-structured statistical machine translation

2006 IEEE ACL Spoken Language Technology Workshop, SLT 2006, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 234-237

  Wu, Dekai ^a   Carpuat, Marine ^a   Shen, Yihai ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Formal languages; Hidden Markov models; Languages; Natural language interfaces; Natural languages; Speech communication; Transducers

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; BACTERIOPHAGES; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; INFORMATION THEORY; QUERY LANGUAGES; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH TRANSMISSION; STATISTICAL METHODS; TELLURIC PROSPECTING; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES); COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; FORMAL LANGUAGES; MACHINE TRANSLATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

ASIAN LANGUAGES; DIRECT MEASUREMENTS; ENGLISH WORD; EUROPEAN; GRAMMAR COVERAGE; PARALLEL CORPORA; SEMITIC LANGUAGES; SPOKEN LANGUAGES; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION (SMT); TEXT TRANSLATION; WORD ALIGNMENT;

LINGUISTICS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

ARABIC-ENGLISH; DIRECT MEASUREMENT; ENGLISH WORD; GRAMMAR COVERAGE; HIDDEN-MARKOV MODELS; INVERSION TRANSDUCTION GRAMMARS; LANGUAGE; NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERFACES; NATURAL LANGUAGES; WORD ALIGNMENT;

EID: 48749087256     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SLT.2006.326798     Document Type: Conference Paper

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