Combining morpheme-based machine translation with post-processing morpheme prediction

ACL-HLT 2011 - Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies

Volumn 1, Issue , 2011, Pages 32-42

  Clifton, Ann ^a   Sarkar, Anoop ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC EVALUATION; COMPLEX MORPHOLOGY; FINNISH; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; PHRASE BOUNDARY; PHRASE-BASED STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; POST PROCESSING; SOURCE LANGUAGE; TARGET LANGUAGE; TRANSLATION SYSTEMS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; INFORMATION THEORY; MORPHOLOGY;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 84859033288     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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