Distortion models 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 529-536

  Al Onaizan, Yaser ^a   Papineni, Kishore ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

DISTORTION MODEL; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; MEASURE WORDS; N-GRAM LANGUAGE MODELS; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; WORD ALIGNMENT; WORD REORDERING;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84860524771     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1220175.1220242     Document Type: Conference Paper

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