Relabeling syntax trees to improve syntax-based machine translation quality

HLT-NAACL 2006 - Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Main Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 240-247

  Huang, Bryant ^a   Knight, Kevin ^b  

^a Language Weaver Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; RELABELING; SYNTAX TREE; TRANSLATION QUALITY;

SYNTACTICS;

EID: 84858409632     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1220835.1220866     Document Type: Conference Paper

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