Smaller alignment models for better translations: Unsupervised word alignment with the ℓ0-norm

50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2012 - Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 311-319

  Vaswani, Ashish ^a   Huang, Liang ^a   Chiang, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IBM MODELS; INTEGRAL PART; LARGE-SCALE DATUM; STATISTICAL TRANSLATION; TRANSLATION MODELS; TRANSLATION QUALITY; WORD ALIGNMENT;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84873272126     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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