Incremental syntactic language models for phrase-based translation

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2011, Pages 620-631

  Schwartz, Lane ^a   Callison Burch, Chris ^b   Schuler, William ^c   Wu, Stephen ^d  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORMAL DEFINITION; LANGUAGE MODEL; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; SYNTACTIC PARSING; TOPDOWN; TRANSLATION SYSTEMS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; SYNTACTICS;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 84859045434     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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