Better alignments = Better translations?

ACL-08: HLT - 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 986-993

  Ganchev, Kuzman ^a   Graca̧, João V ^b   Taskar, Ben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b INESC ID   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT ACCURACY; EM ALGORITHMS; LANGUAGE PAIRS; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; PRECISION AND RECALL; SIMPLE METHOD; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEM; TRANSLATION SYSTEMS; WORD ALIGNMENT;

ALGORITHMS; ALIGNMENT; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 77958063873     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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