Searching for alignments in SMT. A novel approach based on an estimation of distribution algorithm

HLT-NAACL 2006 - Statistical Machine Translation, Proceedings of the Workshop

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 47-54

  Rodríguez, Luis ^a   García Varea, Ismael ^a   Gámez, José A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; MACHINE TRANSLATION;

DECODING PROCESS; DISTRIBUTION ALGORITHMS; ESTIMATION OF DISTRIBUTIONS; PARALLEL CORPORA; STATISTIC MODELING; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; TRANSLATION PROCESS; WORD ALIGNMENT;

ALIGNMENT;

EID: 68549091015     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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