Improved models of distortion cost for statistical machine translation

NAACL HLT 2010 - Human Language Technologies: The 2010 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Main Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 867-875

  Green, Spence ^a   Galley, Michel ^a   Manning, Christopher D ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTORTION MODEL; IMPROVED MODELS; LINEAR DISTORTIONS; MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; TRANSLATION QUALITY;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COST ESTIMATING; COST FUNCTIONS; INFORMATION THEORY; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84857783244     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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