A simple and effective hierarchical phrase reordering model

EMNLP 2008 - 2008 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference: A Meeting of SIGDAT, a Special Interest Group of the ACL

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 848-856

  Galley, Michel ^a   Manning, Christopher D ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; SYNTACTICS;

ARABIC-ENGLISH; HIERARCHICAL PHRASE; LANGUAGE PAIRS; PHRASE REORDERING; PHRASE-BASED STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE; REORDERING MODELS; STATE-OF-THE-ART PERFORMANCE;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 80053360939     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1613715.1613824     Document Type: Conference Paper

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