Combination of arabic preprocessing schemes for statistical machine translation

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 1-8

  Sadat, Fatiha ^a   Habash, Nizar ^b  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHRASE-BASED STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; PREPROCESSING SCHEME; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; TRAINING AND TESTING; TRANSLATION QUALITY;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84860521060     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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