Improving translation quality by manipulating sentence length

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

Volumn 1529, Issue , 1998, Pages 448-460

  Gerber, Laurie ^a   Hovy, Eduard ^b  

^a SYSTRAN Software   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

SENTENCE LENGTH; TARGET LANGUAGE; TRANSLATION QUALITY; TRANSLATION SYSTEMS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 79851489827     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-49478-2_40     Document Type: Conference Paper

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