Semantically-informed syntactic machine translation: A tree-grafting approach

AMTA 2010 - 9th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Baker, Kathryn ^a   Bloodgood, Michael ^b   Callison Burch, Chris ^b   Dorr, Bonnie J ^c   Filardo, Nathaniel W ^b   Levin, Lori ^d   Miller, Scott ^e   Piatko, Christine ^f  

^a ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e BBN TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^f APL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASELINE MODELS; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; SEMANTIC INFORMATION; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; SYNTACTIC APPROACH; TRANSLATION QUALITY; WORD ORDERS;

INFORMATION THEORY; LINGUISTICS; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

SYNTACTICS;

EID: 84863395402     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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