Why generative phrase models underperform surface heuristics

HLT-NAACL 2006 - Statistical Machine Translation, Proceedings of the Workshop

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 31-38

  DeNero, John ^a   Gillick, Dan ^a   Zhang, James ^a   Klein, Dan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

GENERATIVE MODEL; LEVEL MODEL; MA XIMUM LIKELIHOODS; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD; OVERFITTING; PERFORMANCE GAPS; PHRASE-BASED MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; PHRASE-BASED MODELS; SIMPLE++; WORD LEVEL;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 80053355017     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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