Using supertags as source language context in SMT

Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, EAMT 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 234-241

  Haque, Rejwanul ^a   Naskar, Sudip Kumar ^a   Ma, Yanjun ^a   Way, Andy ^a  

^a DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMBINATORY CATEGORIAL GRAMMAR; LANGUAGE MODEL; MEMORY-BASED CLASSIFICATION; PHRASE-BASED STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; SMT SYSTEMS; SOURCE LANGUAGE; TRANSLATION QUALITY;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; INFORMATION THEORY;

SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84863116577     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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