Discriminativeword alignment by linear modeling

Computational Linguistics

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 303-339

  Liu, Yang ^a   Liu, Qun ^a   Lin, Shouxun ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS;

BILINGUAL CORPORA; EVALUATION METRICS; FEATURE FUNCTION; GENERATIVE MODEL; KNOWLEDGE SOURCES; LINGUISTIC INFORMATION; STATE OF THE ART; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEM;

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

EID: 77958029965     PISSN: 08912017     EISSN: 15309312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/coli_a_00001     Document Type: Article

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