Maximum entropy based rule selection model for syntax-based statistical machine translation

EMNLP 2008 - 2008 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference: A Meeting of SIGDAT, a Special Interest Group of the ACL

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 89-97

  Liu, Qun ^a   He, Zhongjun ^a,b   Liu, Yang ^a   Lin, Shouxun ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; DECODING; ENTROPY; FORESTRY; SPEECH TRANSMISSION; SYNTACTICS;

BASELINE SYSTEMS; CONTEXT DEPENDENT; LOCAL CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION; RULE SELECTION; STATE OF THE ART; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; STRING ALIGNMENT; TEMPLATE MODELS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 80053258982     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1613715.1613729     Document Type: Conference Paper

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