Preference grammars: Softening syntactic constraints to improve statistical machine translation

NAACL HLT 2009 - Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 236-244

  Venugopal, Ashish ^a   Zollmann, Andreas ^a   Smith, Noah A ^a   Vogel, Stephan ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

LABELING PROCEDURES; LANGUAGE MODEL; LOGLINEAR MODEL; MATCHING CONSTRAINTS; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; TRANSLATION QUALITY;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; INFORMATION THEORY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

SYNTACTICS;

EID: 84857524432     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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