Statistical translation with scarce resources: A south african case study

SAIEE Africa Research Journal

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 136-140

  Kato, R S M ^a,b   Barnard, E ^a  

^a CSIR MERAKA INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Active learning; Bilingual corpora; BLEU; Bootstrapping; Language model; Phrased based translation; Semi supervised learning; Translation model

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LEARNING; BILINGUAL CORPORA; LANGUAGE MODEL; SEMI-SUPERVISED LEARNING; TRANSLATION MODELS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; INFORMATION THEORY; SPEECH TRANSMISSION; SUPERVISED LEARNING; WEBSITES;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 76749115312     PISSN: 00382221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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