Phrase translation probabilities with ITG priors and Smoothing as learning objective

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 630-639

  Mylonakis, Markos ^a   Sima'an, Khalil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MACHINE COMPONENTS; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EXPECTATION - MAXIMIZATIONS; INVERSION TRANSDUCTION GRAMMARS; LEARNING OBJECTIVES; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; PHRASE TRANSLATIONS; PHRASE-BASED MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS;

HEURISTIC METHODS;

EID: 80053371755     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1613715.1613793     Document Type: Conference Paper

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