ENGLISH-LATVIAN SMT: THE CHALLENGE OF TRANSLATING INTO A FREE WORD ORDER LANGUAGE

2nd Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-Resourced Languages, SLTU 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 87-94

  Khalilov, Maxim ^a   Fonollosa, José A R ^b   Skadiņa, Inguna ^c   Brālītis, Edgars ^c   Pretkalniņa, Lauma ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LATVIA   (Latvia)

Author keywords

finite state machines; language processing; Natural languages; statistical machine translation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; MACHINE TRANSLATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

AUTOMATIC TRANSLATION; BILINGUALS; COMPARATIVES STUDIES; FINITE STATES MACHINE; FREE WORD ORDER LANGUAGES; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NATURAL LANGUAGES; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEM; TRANSLATION PROCESS;

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