Chunk-level reordering of source language sentences with automatically learned rules for statistical machine translation

Proceedings of NAACL-HLT 2007/AMTA Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation, SSST 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-8

  Zhang, Yuqi ^a   Zens, Richard ^a   Ney, Hermann ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; MACHINE TRANSLATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

PHRASE-BASED STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; SOURCE LANGUAGE; SOURCE-SIDE REORDERING; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; TEST SETS; WORD ALIGNMENT;

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

EID: 84859953878     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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