Intersecting multilingual data for faster and better statistical translations

NAACL HLT 2009 - Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 128-136

  Chen, Yu ^a,b   Kay, Martin ^a,c   Eisele, Andreas ^a,b  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b GERMAN RESEARCH CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DFKI   (Germany)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

COMBINATION METHOD; INTERMEDIATE LANGUAGES; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; REDUCED MODEL; SEARCH SPACES; STATISTICAL TRANSLATION; TRAINING DATA; TRANSLATION QUALITY;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 84863337662     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1620754.1620773     Document Type: Conference Paper

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