Linguistically motivated unsupervised segmentation for machine translation

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1741-1745

  Fishel, Mark ^a   Kirik, Harri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; LINGUISTICS;

ALTERNATIVE PATH; COMPOUND WORDS; LINGUISTIC PHENOMENA; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYZER; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; TRANSLATION QUALITY; UNSUPERVISED SEGMENTATION;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

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DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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