Name translation in statisticalmachine translation learning when to transliterate

ACL-08: HLT - 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 389-397

  Hermjakob, Ulf ^a   Knight, Kevin ^a   Dauḿe, Hal ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

N-GRAMS; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 80053425838     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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