Pivot language approach for phrase-based statistical machine translation

ACL 2007 - Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 856-863

  Wu, Hua ^a   Wang, Haifeng ^a  

^a Toshiba China Co Ltd   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILINGUAL CORPORA; LANGUAGE PAIRS; PHRASE-BASED STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; PIVOT LANGUAGE; TRANSLATION MODELS; TRANSLATION QUALITY;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 78751691845     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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