An exponential translation model for target language morphology

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2011, Pages 230-238

  Subotin, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPONENTIAL MODELS; FEATURE PARAMETERS; LARGE DATASETS; NONLOCAL; PARALLEL DATA; TARGET LANGUAGE; TRAINING DATA; TRAINING SETS; TRANSLATION MODELS;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 84859094229     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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