Probabilistic synchronous tree-adjoining grammars for machine translation: The argument from bilingual dictionaries

Proceedings of NAACL-HLT 2007/AMTA Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation, SSST 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 88-95

  Shieber, Stuart M ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GRAMMARS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; MACHINE TRANSLATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

BILINGUAL DICTIONARY; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; PROBABILISTICS; SYNCHRONOUS GRAMMARS; SYNCHRONOUS TREE-ADJOINING GRAMMARS;

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