Phrase clustering for smoothing TM probabilities - Or, how to extract paraphrases from phrase tables

Coling 2010 - 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 608-616

  Kuhn, Roland ^a   Chen, Boxing ^a   Foster, George ^a   Stratford, Evan ^b  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDITIONAL PROBABILITIES; FEATURE COMBINATION; LEARNING CURVES; MAXIMUM GAIN; PHRASE-BASED STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; PROBABILITY ESTIMATE; RELATIVE FREQUENCIES; SMT SYSTEMS; SOURCE LANGUAGE; TRAINING DATA; TRANSLATION MODELS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY; SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 80053421506     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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