Machine translation without words through substring alignment

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 165-174

  Neubig, Graham ^a,b   Tarowatanabe, ^b   Mori, Shinsuke ^a   Kawahara, Tatsuya ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT TECHNIQUE; CHARACTER STRINGS; INVERSION TRANSDUCTION GRAMMARS; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; PARSING ALGORITHM; PRIOR PROBABILITY; TRANSLATION MODELS; WORD-BASED SYSTEMS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84873273232     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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