Bayesian semi-supervised Chinese word segmentation for statistical machine translation

Coling 2008 - 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2008, Pages 1017-1024

  Xu, Jia ^a   Gao, Jianfeng ^b   Toutanova, Kristina ^b   Ney, Hermann ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MICROSOFT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

BI-LINGUAL INFORMATION; CHINESE WORD SEGMENTATION; CHINESE WORD SEGMENTER; SEMI-SUPERVISED; STANDARD MACHINES; STATE OF THE ART; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; WORD SEGMENTATION;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 80053424888     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1599081.1599209     Document Type: Conference Paper

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