Bilingually motivated domain-adapted word segmentation for statistical machine translation

EACL 2009 - 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 549-557

  Ma, Yanjun ^a   Way, Andy ^a  

^a DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

BILINGUAL CORPORA; DIFFERENT DOMAINS; DOMAIN SPECIFIC; PHRASE-BASED STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; TRAINING DATA; WORD ALIGNMENT; WORD SEGMENTATION;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 79952149264     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1609067.1609128     Document Type: Conference Paper

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