Statistical machine translation into a morphologically complex language

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4919 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 376-387

  Oflazer, Kemal ^a  

^a SABANCI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; INFORMATION THEORY; QUERY LANGUAGES; SEMANTICS; SPEECH TRANSMISSION; STATISTICAL METHODS; TEXT PROCESSING; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES); WORD PROCESSING;

AGGLUTINATIVE LANGUAGE; BASELINE MODELS; FORMATION PROCESSES; INTELLIGENT TEXT PROCESSING; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; LANGUAGE MODELLING; LIMITED TRAINING DATA; MORPHOLOGICAL STRUCTURING; NON-TRIVIAL; OUT-OF-VOCABULARY; RE-RANKING; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; TRAINING DATA; TURKISH; WORD ALIGNMENT;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 49949096016     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-78135-6_32     Document Type: Conference Paper

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