N-gram-based Statistical Machine Translation versus syntax augmented machine translation: Comparison and system combination

EACL 2009 - 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 424-432

  Khalilov, Maxim ^a   Fonollosa, José A R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

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Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC EVALUATION; COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES; HUMAN ERROR ANALYSIS; MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEMS; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; STATISTICAL MODELING; TRANSLATION SYSTEMS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; SYNTACTICS;

SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84857518555     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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