A comparison of pivot methods for phrase-based statistical machine translation

NAACL HLT 2007 - Human Language Technologies 2007: The Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Main Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 484-491

  Utiyama, Masao ^a   Isahara, Hitoshi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; ENGLISH SENTENCES; PHRASE-BASED STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; RELATIVE PERFORMANCE; SMT SYSTEMS; SOURCE LANGUAGE; TARGET LANGUAGE; TRANSLATION STRATEGIES;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; INFORMATION THEORY; SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 78751682230     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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