Improving statistical machine translation using word sense disambiguation

EMNLP-CoNLL 2007 - Proceedings of the 2007 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 61-72

  Carpuat, Marine ^a   Wu, Dekai ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC EVALUATION; EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE; LEXICAL CHOICE; LEXICAL SEMANTICS; MULTI-WORD; NEW STRATEGY; PHRASAL TRANSLATION; PHRASE-BASED STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; SMT SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; TEST SETS; TRANSLATION QUALITY; WORD SENSE DISAMBIGUATION SYSTEMS; WORD-SENSE DISAMBIGUATION;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; INFORMATION THEORY; SEMANTICS; SPEECH TRANSMISSION; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 80053333963     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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