Word-based alignment, phrase-based translation: What's the link?

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 90-99

  Lopez, Adam ^a   Resnik, Philip ^b  

^a University of Maryland ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH QUALITY; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; TRANSLATION QUALITY; WEAK CORRELATION; WORD ALIGNMENT;

INFORMATION THEORY;

ALIGNMENT;

EID: 49449118448     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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