A phrase-based hidden semi-Markov approach to machine translation

Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, EAMT 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 168-175

  Andrés Ferrer, Jesús ^a   Juan, Alfons ^b  

^a INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO DE INFORMÁTICA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAUM-WELCH; BILINGUAL SEGMENTATION; HIDDEN SEMI-MARKOV MODELS; LATENT VARIABLE; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; SEMI-MARKOV; TRANSLATION MODELS; VITERBI;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

INFORMATION THEORY;

EID: 79959946311     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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