MaTrEx: the DCU Machine Translation System for IWSLT 2007

2007 International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, IWSLT 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 69-75

  Hassan, Hany ^a   Ma, Yanjun ^a   Way, Andy ^a  

^a DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; MACHINE TRANSLATION;

ADDITIONAL EXPERIMENTS; ARABIC-ENGLISH; INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOPS; LANGUAGE PAIRS; MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEMS; PACKING TECHNIQUES; SIMPLE++; SPOKEN LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; SYSTEM QUALITY; WORD TRANSLATION;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 70350466610     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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