Multi-engine machine translation by recursive sentence decomposition

AMTA 2006 - Proceedings of the 7th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation of the Americas: Visions for the Future of Machine Translation

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 110-118

  Mellebeek, Bart ^a   Owczarzak, Karolina ^a   Van Genabith, Josef ^a   Way, Andy ^a  

^a DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

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Indexed keywords

CONFIDENCE SCORE; LANGUAGE MODEL; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; MAJORITY VOTING; RECURSIVE DECOMPOSITION; TEST SETS; TREEBANKS; WORD ALIGNMENT;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; INFORMATION THEORY;

ENGINES;

EID: 84857526112     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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