Improving syntax driven translation models by re-structuring divergent and non-isomorphic parse tree structures

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Ambati, Vamshi ^a   Lavie, Alon ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ACQUISITION PROCESS; COVERAGE PROBLEM; LEXICAL COVERAGE; LOWER PRECISION; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; PARALLEL DATA; PARSE TREES; SYNTACTIC TREES; SYNTAX-BASED APPROACH; TARGET LANGUAGE; TRANSLATION MODELS; WORD ALIGNMENT;

INFORMATION THEORY; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SYNTACTICS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

FORESTRY;

EID: 84858061077     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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