Improving statistical machine translation using lexicalized rule selection

Coling 2008 - 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2008, Pages 321-328

  He, Zhongjun ^a,b   Liu, Qun ^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; SYNTACTICS;

CONTEXT INFORMATION; RULE SELECTION; SMT SYSTEMS; STATE OF THE ART; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; TRANSLATION RULES;

SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

EID: 80053294267     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1599081.1599122     Document Type: Conference Paper

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