Better statistical estimation can benefit all phrases in phrase-based statistical machine translation

2008 IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, SLT 2008 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 237-240

  Sima'an, Khalil ^a   Mylonakis, Markos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Parameter estimation; Smoothing methods; Transduction

Indexed keywords

CUT-OFF; EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION; FREQUENCY COUNTS; PHRASE-BASED STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; SMOOTHING METHODS; STATISTICAL ESTIMATION; TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIOPHAGES; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; HEURISTIC METHODS; INFORMATION THEORY; LINGUISTICS; METAL ANALYSIS; SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 67649562151     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SLT.2008.4777884     Document Type: Conference Paper

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