Using shallow syntax information to improve word alignment and reordering for SMT

3rd Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, WMT 2008 at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 53-61

  Crego, Josep M ^a   Habash, Nizar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

ARABIC-ENGLISH; HUMAN ERROR ANALYSIS; N-GRAMS; SMT SYSTEMS; WORD ALIGNMENT; WORD REORDERING;

SYNTACTICS;

EID: 84857788222     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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