String-to-dependency statistical machine translation

Computational Linguistics

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 649-671

  Shen, Libin ^a   Xu, Jinxi ^a   Weischedel, Ralph ^a  

^a BBN TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

LANGUAGE MODEL; N-GRAM LANGUAGE MODELS; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; STRING SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

EID: 78650695543     PISSN: 08912017     EISSN: 15309312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/coli_a_00015     Document Type: Article

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