Tree-to-string alignment template 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 609-616

  Liu, Yang ^a   Liu, Qun ^a   Lin, Shouxun ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; SYNTACTICS;

PARALLEL TEXT; PARSE TREES; PHRASE-BASED MODELS; STATE OF THE ART; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; STRING ALIGNMENT; TRANSLATION MODELS;

FORESTRY;

EID: 84860541510     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1220175.1220252     Document Type: Conference Paper

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