Language and translation model adaptation using comparable corpora

EMNLP 2008 - 2008 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference: A Meeting of SIGDAT, a Special Interest Group of the ACL

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 857-866

  Snover, Matthew ^a   Dorr, Bonnie ^a   Schwartz, Richard ^b  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

^b BBN TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

BASELINE SYSTEMS; COMPARABLE CORPORA; LANGUAGE MODEL; PARALLEL DATA; SOURCE LANGUAGE; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEM; TARGET LANGUAGE; TRANSLATION MODELS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 78149287148     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1613715.1613825     Document Type: Conference Paper

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