The RWTH Machine Translation System for IWSLT 2008

2008 International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, IWSLT 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 108-115

  Vilar, David ^a   Stein, Daniel ^a   Zhang, Yuqi ^a   Matusov, Evgeny ^a   Mauser, Arne ^a   Bender, Oliver ^a   Mansour, Saab ^a   Ney, Hermann ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; MACHINE TRANSLATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ENGLISH LANGUAGES; LANGUAGE PAIRS; MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEMS; PRE-PROCESSING TECHNIQUES; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEM;

HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 84869195522     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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