Overcoming vocabulary sparsity in MT using lattices

AMTA 2008 - 8th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  DeNeefe, Steve ^a   Hermjakob, Ulf ^a   Knight, Kevin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; SOURCE LANGUAGE; SPARSENESS PROBLEM; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; TEST DATA; TRAINING DATA;

LINGUISTICS;

INFORMATION THEORY;

EID: 84858033928     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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