Large language models in 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 858-867

  Brants, Thorsten ^a   Popat, Ashok C ^a   Xu, Peng ^a   Och, Franz J ^a   Dean, Jeffrey ^a  

^a GOOGLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACK-OFF; DISTRIBUTED INFRASTRUCTURE; LANGUAGE MODEL; LARGE DATASETS; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; N-GRAMS; SMOOTHING METHODS; STATISTICAL LANGUAGE MODELING; TRAINING DATA;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; INFORMATION THEORY; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 80053375619     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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