A monolingual tree-based translation model for sentence simplification

Coling 2010 - 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 1353-1361

  Zhu, Zhemin ^a   Bernhard, Delphine ^b   Gurevych, Iryna ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Sciences du Numérique   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASELINE SYSTEMS; COMPLEX SENTENCES; DATA SETS; SPECIAL FORMS; TRANSLATION MODELS; TREE-BASED; WIKIPEDIA;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; PLANT EXTRACTS;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 80053262331     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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