Improved Statistical Machine Translation using monolingually-derived paraphrases

EMNLP 2009 - Proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: A Meeting of SIGDAT, a Special Interest Group of ACL, Held in Conjunction with ACL-IJCNLP 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 381-390

  Marton, Yuval ^a   Callison Burch, Chris ^b   Resnik, Philip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; SEMANTICS; SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

LOW-RESOURCE SETTINGS; PARALLEL TEXT; PARALLEL TRAINING; SEMANTIC SIMILARITY MEASURES; SMT SYSTEMS; STATE OF THE ART; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; TRAINING DATA;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 80053407711     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1699510.1699560     Document Type: Conference Paper

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