A Bayesian model of syntax-directed tree to string grammar induction

EMNLP 2009 - Proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: A Meeting of SIGDAT, a Special Interest Group of ACL, Held in Conjunction with ACL-IJCNLP 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 352-361

  Cohn, Trevor ^a   Blunsom, Phil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; DECISION TREES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SYNTACTICS;

DIRECTED TREES; GRAMMAR INDUCTION; LINGUISTIC INFORMATION; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; TRANSLATION MODELS; TRANSLATION QUALITY; TWO STAGE APPROACH; WORD ALIGNMENT;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 77952922710     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1699510.1699557     Document Type: Conference Paper

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