An iteratively-trained segmentation-free phrase translation model for statistical machine translation

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 112-119

  Moore, Robert C ^a   Quirk, Chris ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; MACHINE TRANSLATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

BILINGUALS; MODEL TRANSLATION; PHRASE TRANSLATIONS; S MODELS; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; TRANSLATION MODELS; TRANSLATION QUALITY; WORD ALIGNMENT;

ITERATIVE METHODS;

EID: 80053371403     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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