Stochastic language generation using WIDL-expressions and its application in machine translation and summarization

COLING/ACL 2006 - 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 1105-1112

  Soricut, Radu ^a   Marcu, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

AUTOMATIC TRANSLATION; HEADLINE GENERATION; ITS APPLICATIONS; LANGUAGE GENERATION; LANGUAGE MODEL; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; OPTIMAL ALGORITHM;

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EID: 80053292885     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1220175.1220314     Document Type: Conference Paper

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