The MIT-LL/AFRL IWSLT-2008 MT System

2008 International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, IWSLT 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 69-76

  Shen, Wade ^a   Delaney, Brian ^a   Anderson, Tim ^b   Slyh, Ray ^b  

^a MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

COMBINATION METHOD; CONFUSION NETWORKS; IMPROVE PERFORMANCE; LATTICE NETWORKS; NETWORK DECODING; PHRASE-BASED MODELS; SEGMENTATION MODELS; SPEECH INPUT; SYSTEM COMBINATION; SYSTEM IMPROVEMENTS;

MACHINE TRANSLATION;

EID: 79951665811     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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