Discriminative substring decoding for transliteration

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 1066-1075

  Cherry, Colin ^a   Suzuki, Hisami ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECODING;

CONTEXT FEATURES; DISCRIMINATIVE TRAINING; HUMAN JUDGMENTS; MACHINE TRANSLITERATION; ON-MACHINES; STATE OF THE ART; SUBSTRING; TARGET LANGUAGE;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 80053422687     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1699648.1699652     Document Type: Conference Paper

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