Hierarchical phrase-based translation with weighted finite state transducers

NAACL HLT 2009 - Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 433-441

  Iglesias, Gonzalo ^a   De Gispert, Adrià ^b   Banga, Eduardo R ^a   Byrne, William ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DECODING;

DIRECT GENERATION; HIERARCHICAL PHRASE; LANGUAGE MODEL; LATTICE-BASED; PARAMETER OPTIMIZATION; PRUNING PROCEDURES; TARGET LANGUAGE; WEIGHTED FINITE-STATE TRANSDUCERS;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 77958030425     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1620754.1620817     Document Type: Conference Paper

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