A fast fertility hidden Markov model for word alignment using MCMC

EMNLP 2010 - Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 596-605

  Zhao, Shaojun ^a   Gildea, Daniel ^a  

^a University of Rochester   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT ERROR; GIBBS SAMPLING; IBM MODELS; IN-BUILDINGS; NEIGHBORHOOD METHODS; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; WORD ALIGNMENT;

ALIGNMENT; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 80053235744     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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