Improved word alignment with statistics and linguistic heuristics

EMNLP 2009 - Proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: A Meeting of SIGDAT, a Special Interest Group of ACL, Held in Conjunction with ACL-IJCNLP 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 229-237

  Hermjakob, Ulf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; SYNTACTICS;

ARABIC-ENGLISH; ENGLISH PARSER; FUNCTION WORDS; LINGUISTIC KNOWLEDGE; LINGUISTIC RESOURCES; STATISTICAL APPROACH; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; WORD ALIGNMENT;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 78651260447     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1699510.1699540     Document Type: Conference Paper

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