A new string-to-dependency machine translation algorithm with a target dependency language model

ACL-08: HLT - 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 577-585

  Shen, Libin ^a   Xu, Jinxi ^a   Weischedel, Ralph ^a  

^a BBN TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

LANGUAGE MODEL; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; N-GRAM LANGUAGE MODELS; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION;

ALGORITHMS; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84859913396     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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