Soft dependency constraints for reordering in hierarchical phrase-based translation

EMNLP 2011 - Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 857-868

  Gao, Yang ^a   Koehn, Philipp ^a   Birch, Alexandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE POINTS; DEPENDENCY CONSTRAINTS; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; PRECISION AND RECALL; SOFT CONSTRAINT; SOURCE DEPENDENCY; TUNING FUNCTION;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; INFORMATION THEORY; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 80053244416     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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