Semantics-based machine translation with hyperedge replacement grammars

24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics - Proceedings of COLING 2012: Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1359-1376

  Jones, Bevan ^a   Andreas, Jacob ^b,c   Bauer, Daniel ^c   Hermann, Karl Moritz ^d   Knight, Kevin ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT ALGORITHMS; CONTEXT-FREE GRAPH GRAMMARS; HYPEREDGE REPLACEMENT; RULE EXTRACTION ALGORITHMS; SEMANTIC ANNOTATIONS; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; SYNCHRONOUS GRAMMARS; SYNTACTIC ANNOTATION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; EXPERIMENTS; FORMAL LANGUAGES; SYNTACTICS;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 84876807738     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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