The RWTH System Combination System for WMT 2009

EACL 2009 - 4th Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, Proceedings of theWorkshop

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 51-55

  Leusch, Gregor ^a   Matusov, Evgeny ^a   Ney, Hermann ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; MACHINE TRANSLATION;

COMBINATION SYSTEMS; CONSENSUS TRANSLATIONS; CROSS-LINGUAL; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; SYSTEM COMBINATION;

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

EID: 84857579162     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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