Choosing the right translation: A syntactically informed classification approach

Coling 2008 - 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2008, Pages 1153-1160

  Zwarts, Simon ^a   Dras, Mark ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION APPROACH; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; MODEL APPROACH; OUTPUT QUALITY; SIDE INFORMATION; SYNTACTIC PROBLEMS;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; SYNTACTICS;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 77956311127     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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