Scalable purely-discriminative training for word and tree transducers

AMTA 2006 - Proceedings of the 7th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation of the Americas: Visions for the Future of Machine Translation

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 251-260

  Wellington, Benjamin ^a   Turian, Joseph ^a   Pike, Chris ^a   Dan Melamed, I ^a  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; DISCRIMINATIVE LEARNING; DISCRIMINATIVE TRAINING; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; SOURCE CODES; STATE OF THE ART; SUBTASKS; SYNTACTIC INFORMATION; SYSTEM COMPLEXITY; TREE TRANSDUCERS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

INFORMATION THEORY;

EID: 49449084161     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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