Generalizing local and non-local word-reordering patterns for syntax-based machine translation

EMNLP 2008 - 2008 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference: A Meeting of SIGDAT, a Special Interest Group of the ACL

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 572-581

  Zhao, Bing ^a   Al Onaizan, Yaser ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTEXT FREE GRAMMARS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SYNTACTICS;

LANGUAGE PAIRS; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; PARALLEL CORPORA; STRING RULES; SYNCHRONOUS CONTEXT-FREE GRAMMARS; TRANSLATION QUALITY; TREE-BASED; WORD REORDERING;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 79955519305     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1613715.1613785     Document Type: Conference Paper

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