Filtering Antonymous, Trend-Contrasting, and Polarity-Dissimilar Distributional Paraphrases for Improving Statistical Machine Translation

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 237-249

  Marton, Yuval ^a   El Kholy, Ahmed ^b   Habash, Nizar ^b  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b 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; SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

NOVEL METHODS; PARALLEL TEXT; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; SYNTACTIC PARSERS; TRANSLATION QUALITY;

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

EID: 84881119447     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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