Improving Arabic-to-English Statistical Machine Translation by reordering post-verbal subjects for alignment

ACL 2010 - 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 178-183

  Carpuat, Marine ^a   Marton, Yuval ^a   Habash, Nizar ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPENDENCY PARSER; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; WORD ALIGNMENT;

ALIGNMENT; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84859945878     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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