Exploiting Alignment Techniques in MATREX: the DCU Machine Translation System for IWSLT 2008

2008 International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, IWSLT 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 26-33

  Ma, Yanjun ^a   Tinsley, John ^a   Hassan, Hany ^a   Du, Jinhua ^a   Way, Andy ^a  

^a DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; MACHINE TRANSLATION;

ALIGNMENT TECHNIQUE; ARABIC-ENGLISH; BILINGUALS; INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOPS; MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEMS; SPOKEN LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; SYSTEM QUALITY; SYSTEMS PERFORMANCE; TREEBANKS; WORD ALIGNMENT;

ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84875744125     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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