Learning to transform and select elementary trees for improved syntax-based machine translations

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2011, Pages 846-855

  Zhao, Bing ^a   Lee, Young Suk ^a   Luo, Xiaoqiang ^a   Li, Liu ^b  

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

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARIZATIONS; DECODING PROCESS; ELEMENTARY TREES; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; PARSE TREES; SOURCE TREE; TRANSLATION MODELS; TRANSLATION QUALITY; TRANSLATION SYSTEMS; UNCONSTRAINED SYSTEMS; WORD REORDERING;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; FORESTRY; SYNTACTICS;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

ALGORITHMS; FORESTRY; LANGUAGES; TRANSLATION;

EID: 84859077320     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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