Statistical Machine Translation of Spontaneous Speech with Scarce Resources

2004 International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, IWSLT 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 139-146

  Matusov, Evgeny ^a   Popović, Maja ^a   Zens, Richard ^a   Ney, Hermann ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; MACHINE TRANSLATION; SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

DATA SPARSENESS PROBLEM; EM TRAINING; MORPHOLOGICAL INFORMATION; PART OF SPEECH; SCARCE RESOURCES; SPONTANEOUS SPEECH; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; TRAINING DATA; TWO WAYS; WORD ALIGNMENT;

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

EID: 84857597360     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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