Generating Arabic text in multilingual speech-to-speech machine translation framework

Machine Translation

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 205-258

  Abdel Monem, Azza ^a   Shaalan, Khaled ^b,c   Rafea, Ahmed ^d   Baraka, Hoda ^e  

^a Ain Shams University   (Egypt)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c THE BRITISH UNIVERSITY IN DUBAI   (United Arab Emirates)

^d The American University in Cairo   (Egypt)

^e CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Arabic natural language processing; Interlingua; Machine translation; Natural language generation; Rule based text generation

Indexed keywords

ARABIC NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; ARABIC TEXTS; CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY; E-COMMERCE; EVALUATION EXPERIMENTS; INPUT AND OUTPUTS; INTERCHANGE FORMATS; INTERMEDIATE LANGUAGES; LANGUAGE COMPLEXITY; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION; RULE BASED; RULE-BASED APPROACH; SICSTUS PROLOG; SPOKEN DIALOGUE; SPOKEN LANGUAGES; SYNTACTIC STRUCTURE; TARGET LANGUAGE; TEMPLATE-BASED; TRAVEL AND TOURISM;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INFORMATION THEORY; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; QUERY LANGUAGES; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH TRANSMISSION; SYNTACTICS; TELLURIC PROSPECTING;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 71249119549     PISSN: 09226567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10590-009-9054-9     Document Type: Article

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