Hierarchical system combination for machine translation

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 277-286

  Huang, Fei ^a   Papineni, Kishore ^b  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b YAHOO RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; MULTIPLE LANGUAGES; MULTIPLE SYSTEMS; N-GRAM LANGUAGE MODELS; SYSTEM OUTPUT; TEST SETS; TRANSLATION PAIR; TRANSLATION QUALITY;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER HARDWARE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; INFORMATION THEORY; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 80053363808     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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