Revisiting pivot language approach for machine translation

ACL-IJCNLP 2009 - Joint Conf. of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and 4th Int. Joint Conf. on Natural Language Processing of the AFNLP, Proceedings of the Conf.

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 154-162

  Wu, Hua ^a   Wang, Haifeng ^a  

^a Toshiba China Co Ltd   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

EVALUATION PROBLEMS; LEARNING MODELS; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; PIVOT LANGUAGE; SPOKEN LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; SYSTEM COMBINATION; TRANSLATION METHOD; TRANSLATION QUALITY;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84857522664     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1687878.1687902     Document Type: Conference Paper

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