An Improved Statistical Transfer System for French-English Machine Translation

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 140-144

  Hanneman, Greg ^a   Ambati, Vamshi ^a   Clark, Jonathan H ^a   Parlikar, Alok ^a   Lavie, Alon ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

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

CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY; FRENCH-ENGLISH; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS; SYNTACTIC GRAMMARS; SYNTAX-BASED APPROACH; SYSTEM COMPONENTS; TRANSFER SYSTEMS;

SYNTACTICS;

EID: 84857713882     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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