Coupling hierarchical word reordering and decoding in phrase-based statistical machine translation

Proceedings of SSST 2009: 3rd Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation at the 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL-HLT 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 78-86

  Khalilov, Maxim ^a   Fonollosa, José A R ^a   Dras, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; MACHINE TRANSLATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

DISTORTION MODEL; LATTICE-BASED; NEW APPROACHES; PHRASE-BASED STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; PRE-PROCESSING STEP; STATE OF THE ART; SYNTACTIC REPRESENTATION; WORD REORDERING;

DECODING;

EID: 84858415393     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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