Using Monolingual Source-Language Data to Improve MT Performance

2006 International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, IWSLT 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 174-181

  Ueffing, Nicola ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

BILINGUAL TEXTS; LARGE AMOUNTS; MONOLINGUAL TEXTS; PERFORMANCE; PHRASE TRANSLATIONS; SOURCE LANGUAGE; SOURCE TEXT; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEM; TRANSLATION MODELS; TRANSLATION SYSTEMS;

MACHINE TRANSLATION;

EID: 49549107638     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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