Effective use of linguistic and contextual information for statistical machine translation

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 72-80

  Shen, Libin ^a   Xu, Jinxi ^a   Zhang, Bing ^a   Matsoukas, Spyros ^a   Weischedel, Ralph ^a  

^a BBN TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

CONTEXTUAL FEATURE; LEXICAL FEATURES; LINGUISTIC AND CONTEXTUAL INFORMATIONS; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; SCALING-UP; SOURCE DEPENDENCY; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; TERMINAL LENGTHS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 80053434058     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1699510.1699520     Document Type: Conference Paper

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