Discriminative alignment training without annotated data for machine translation

NAACL-HLT 2007 - Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics, Companion Volume: Short Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 85-88

  Lambert, Patrik ^a   Banchs, Rafael E ^a   Crego, Josep M ^a  

^a TALP Research Center   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; MACHINE TRANSLATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; QUALITY CONTROL;

AUTOMATED TRANSLATION; AUTOMATIC TRANSLATION; DISCRIMINATIVE TRAINING; LINK LABELS; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; MODELING PARAMETERS; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEM; SYSTEMS ALIGNMENTS; TRANSLATION MODELS; WORD LEVEL;

ALIGNMENT;

EID: 79955877238     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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