Statistical approaches to computer-assisted translation

Computational Linguistics

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 3-28

  Barrachina, Sergio ^a   Casacuberta, Francisco ^c   Cubel, Elsa ^c   Lagarda, Antonio ^c   Tomás, Jesús ^c   Vilar, Juan Miguel ^a   Bender, Oliver ^b   Civera, Jorge ^c   Khadivi, Shahram ^b   Ney, Hermann ^b   Vidal, Enrique ^c  

^a UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO DE INFORMÁTICA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ITERATIVE METHODS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER ASSISTED; ITERATIVE PROCESS; MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEMS; PHRASE-BASED MODELS; STATISTICAL APPROACH; STOCHASTIC FINITE-STATE TRANSDUCERS; TRANSLATION PROCESS; TRANSLATION SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

EID: 62449333443     PISSN: 08912017     EISSN: 15309312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/coli.2008.07-055-R2-06-29     Document Type: Article

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