Learning to translate with source and target syntax

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1443-1452

  Chiang, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTIC THEORY; RECURSIVE STRUCTURE; SIMPLE APPROACH; SOURCE LANGUAGE; STATISTICAL TRANSLATION MODEL; TARGET LANGUAGE; TRANSLATION MODELS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; SYNTACTICS;

INFORMATION USE;

EID: 84859994295     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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