Phrasetable smoothing for Statistical machine translation

COLING/ACL 2006 - EMNLP 2006: 2006 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 53-61

  Foster, George ^a   Kuhn, Roland ^a   Johnson, Howard ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

SMOOTHING TECHNIQUES; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION;

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

EID: 80053359015     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1610075.1610084     Document Type: Conference Paper

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