Reduction of morpho-syntactic features in statistical machine translation of highly inflective language

Informatica

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 95-116

  Sepesy Maučec, Mirjam ^a   Brest, Janez ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Inflective language; Morpho syntactic description and Bleu metric; Statistical machine translation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949842053     PISSN: 08684952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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