Using syntax to improve word alignment precision for syntax-based machine translation

3rd Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, WMT 2008 at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 44-52

  Fossum, Victoria ^a   Knight, Kevin ^b   Abney, Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; MACHINE TRANSLATION;

ARABIC-ENGLISH; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; TRANSLATION QUALITY; TREE TRANSDUCERS; WORD ALIGNMENT;

SYNTACTICS;

EID: 77949381497     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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