Fuzzy Syntactic Reordering for Phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation

WMT 2011 - 6thWorkshop on Statistical Machine Translation, Proceedings of the Workshop

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 227-236

  Andreas, Jacob ^a   Habash, Nizar ^a   Rambow, Owen ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; MACHINE TRANSLATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; SYNTACTICS;

ARABIC-ENGLISH; FUZZIFICATIONS; PERFORMANCE; PHRASE-BASED STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; RE ORDERINGS; SMT SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; TRANSLATION SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

EID: 84878177035     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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