Modified distortion matrices for phrase-based statistical machine translation

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 478-487

  Bisazza, Arianna ^a   Federico, Marcello ^a  

^a FONDAZIONE BRUNO KESSLER   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARABIC-ENGLISH; COST MATRICES; DISTORTION MATRICES; LANGUAGE PAIRS; PHRASE-BASED STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; SEARCH SPACES;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84878181339     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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