Cognates can improve statistical translation models

Proceedings of the 2003 Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Short Papers, HLT-NAACL 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 46-48

  Kondrak, Grzegorz ^a   Marcu, Daniel ^b   Knight, Kevin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

IDENTIFICATION APPROACH; STATISTICAL TRANSLATION MODEL; TRANSLATION MODELS; TRANSLATION QUALITY; WORD ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84878172384     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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