Pivot language approach for phrase-based statistical machine translation

Machine Translation

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 165-181

  Wu, Hua ^a   Wang, Haifeng ^a  

^a Toshiba China Co Ltd   (China)

Author keywords

Phrase based statistical machine translation; Pivot language; Scarce bilingual resources

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; INFORMATION THEORY; QUERY LANGUAGES; SOFTWARE AGENTS; SPEECH TRANSMISSION; STATISTICAL METHODS; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

BILINGUAL CORPORA; LANGUAGE PAIRS; NOVEL METHODS; PHRASE-BASED STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; PHRASE-BASED STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; PIVOT LANGUAGE; PIVOT LANGUAGES; SCARCE BILINGUAL RESOURCES; STANDARD MODELS; TRANSLATION MODELS; TRANSLATION QUALITIES;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 54249155932     PISSN: 09226567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10590-008-9041-6     Document Type: Article

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