Exploiting document-level context for data-driven machine translation

AMTA 2008 - 8th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Brown, Ralf D ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA-DRIVEN; EXAMPLE-BASED SYSTEM; MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEMS; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; TRAINING CORPUS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

INFORMATION THEORY;

EID: 84863277605     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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