Improving a statistical MT system with automatically learned rewrite patterns

COLING 2004 - Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Xia, Fei ^a   McCord, Michael ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

SYNTACTICS;

'CURRENT; GENERALISATION; PHRASE BOUNDARY; PREPROCESS; RULE BASED; RUNTIMES; TARGET LANGUAGE; TARGET WORDS; TWO WAYS; WORD ORDERS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84858428874     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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