A word-class approach to labeling PSCFG rules for machine translation

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2011, Pages 1-11

  Zollmann, Andreas ^a   Vogel, Stephan ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY NUMBER; CLUSTERING MODEL; LANGUAGE PAIRS; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; PART OF SPEECH; TRANSLATION QUALITY;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 84859044437     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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