Indirect-HMM-based hypothesis alignment for combining outputs from machine translation systems

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 98-107

  He, Xiaodong ^a   Yang, Mei ^b   Gao, Jianfeng ^a   Nguyen, Patrick ^a   Moore, Robert ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; SEMANTICS; SURFACE MOUNT TECHNOLOGY;

ALIGNMENT METHODS; BENCHMARK DATASETS; DISTANCE-BASED; MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEMS; MT EVALUATIONS; MULTIPLE MACHINE; SEMANTIC SIMILARITY; STATE OF THE ART;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 80053362520     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1613715.1613730     Document Type: Conference Paper

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