Improving Statistical Machine Translation by Paraphrasing the Training Data

2008 International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, IWSLT 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 150-157

  Bond, Francis ^a   Nichols, Eric ^b   Appling, Darren Scott ^c   Paul, Michael ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; CONTEXT FREE GRAMMARS; MACHINE TRANSLATION;

LARGE AMOUNTS; LEXICAL CHOICE; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEM; TRAINING DATA; WORD ORDERS;

SYNTACTICS;

EID: 79957559989     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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