Model combination for machine translation

NAACL HLT 2010 - Human Language Technologies: The 2010 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Main Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 975-983

  DeNero, John ^a   Kumar, Shankar ^b   Chelba, Ciprian ^b   Och, Franz ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GOOGLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPONENT MODEL; DATA SETS; DECODING TECHNIQUES; HETEROGENOUS STRUCTURE; INDIVIDUAL SYSTEMS; LANGUAGE PAIRS; LARGE SCALE EXPERIMENTS; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; MODEL COMBINATION; MULTIPLE HYPOTHESIS; SEARCH SPACES; SYSTEM COMBINATION; TRANSLATION QUALITY; UNDERLYING COMPONENTS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DECODING; INFORMATION THEORY;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 84863390524     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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