The CMU-EBMT machine translation system

Machine Translation

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 179-195

  Brown, Ralf D ^a  

^a Language Technologies Institute ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Example based machine translation; Open source software; Parameter tuning

Indexed keywords

END-TO-END SYSTEMS; EXAMPLE-BASED MACHINE TRANSLATION; LANGUAGE MODEL; LOOKUPS; MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEMS; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN-SOURCE; PARAMETER-TUNING;

ALIGNMENT; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; INFORMATION THEORY; OPEN SYSTEMS;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 80054802453     PISSN: 09226567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10590-011-9095-8     Document Type: Article

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