Exploiting syntactic relationships in a phrase-based decoder: An exploration

Machine Translation

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 123-140

  Hunter, Tim ^a   Resnik, Philip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Phrase based translation; Reordering; Statistical MT; Syntax

Indexed keywords

DEPENDENCY TREES; LINGUISTIC CONSTITUENTS; PHRASE-BASED APPROACH; PHRASE-BASED TRANSLATION; REORDERING; STATISTICAL MT; SYNTAX; WORD ORDERS;

DECODING; LINGUISTICS; SYNTACTICS;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 78650170618     PISSN: 09226567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10590-010-9074-5     Document Type: Article

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