Enriching morphologically poor languages for statistical machine translation

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 763-770

  Avramidis, Eleftherios ^a   Koehn, Philipp ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTIC INFORMATION; SOURCE LANGUAGE; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 84859924220     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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