Linguistic structure and bilingual informants help induce machine translation of lesser-resourced languages

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 2854-2859

  Monson, Christian ^a   Llitjós, Ariadna Font ^b   Ambati, Vamshi ^a   Levin, Lori ^a   Lavie, Alon ^a   Alvarez, Alison ^a   Aranovich, Roberto ^c   Carbonell, Jaime ^a   Frederking, Robert ^a   Peterson, Erik ^a   Probst, Katharina ^d  

^a Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

^b Vivisimo Inc   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^d ACCENTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; CONTEXT FREE LANGUAGES; LINGUISTICS; PROGRAM TRANSLATORS; SYNTACTICS;

CONTEXT-FREE; LINGUISTIC STRUCTURE; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; MINORITY LANGUAGES; NATURAL LANGUAGES; RESEARCH PROGRAMS; SYNTACTIC STRUCTURE; TRANSFER RULES;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 84859940575     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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