On the importance of pivot language selection for statistical machine translation

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 221-224

  Paul, Michael ^a   Yamamoto, Hirofumi ^a,b   Sumita, Eiichiro ^a   Nakamura, Satoshi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b KINKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; MACHINE TRANSLATION;

LANGUAGE PAIRS; LANGUAGE RESOURCES; PIVOT LANGUAGE; RECENT RESEARCHES; RESOURCE LIMITATIONS; STATE OF THE ART; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; TRANSLATION QUALITY;

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

EID: 84866873957     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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