Analysing Soft Syntax Features and Heuristics for Hierarchical Phrase Based Machine Translation

2008 International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, IWSLT 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 190-197

  Vilar, David ^a   Stein, Daniel ^a   Ney, Hermann ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; MACHINE TRANSLATION;

HIERARCHICAL PHRASE; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PHRASE-BASED MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; SOFT CONSTRAINT;

HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 79955817046     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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