Word sense disambiguation improves statistical machine translation

ACL 2007 - Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 33-40

  Chan, Yee Seng ^a   Ng, Hwee Tou ^a   Chiang, David ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CONFLICTING EVIDENCE; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; WORD-SENSE DISAMBIGUATION;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84860514028     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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