Translating from complex to simplified sentences

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6001 LNAI, Issue , 2010, Pages 30-39

  Specia, Lucia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Portuguese; Statistical machine translation; Text simplification

Indexed keywords

MANUAL INSPECTION; OVERALL QUALITY; PARALLEL CORPORA; PORTUGUESE; SENTENCE LEVEL; SMT SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; TEXT SIMPLIFICATION;

INFORMATION THEORY; LINGUISTICS; SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 78650281886     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-12320-7_5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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