Wider pipelines: N-best alignments and parses in MT training

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Venugopal, Ashish ^a   Zollmann, Andreas ^a   Smith, Noah A ^a   Vogel, Stephan ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI; PARSE TREES; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEM; TRAINING DATA; TRANSLATION MODELS; TRANSLATION QUALITY; TRANSLATION SYSTEMS; WORD ALIGNMENT;

ESTIMATION; INFORMATION THEORY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84858068949     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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