Improving Statistical Machine Translation with monolingual collocation

ACL 2010 - 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 825-833

  Liu, Zhanyi ^a   Wang, Haifeng ^b   Wu, Hua ^b   Li, Sheng ^a  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b BAIDU INC   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASELINE SYSTEMS; SMT SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; TRANSLATION QUALITY; WORD ALIGNMENT;

ALIGNMENT; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

EID: 80053234114     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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