Going beyond AER: An extensive analysis of word alignments and their impact on MT

COLING/ACL 2006 - 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 9-16

  Ayan, Necip Fazil ^a   Dorr, Bonnie J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SYSTEM OUTPUT; WORD ALIGNMENT;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

ALIGNMENT;

EID: 77951490485     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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