Improved discriminative bilingual word alignment

COLING/ACL 2006 - 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 513-520

  Moore, Robert C ^a   Yih, Wen Tau ^a   Bode, Andreas ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

ALIGNMENT ERROR; BEST MODEL; DISCRIMINATIVE MODELS; GENERATIVE MODEL; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; TRAINING METHODS; WORD ALIGNMENT;

ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84860516358     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1220175.1220240     Document Type: Conference Paper

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