Improving phrase-based translation via word alignments from stochastic inversion transduction grammars

Proceedings of SSST 2009: 3rd Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation at the 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL-HLT 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 28-36

  Saers, Markus ^a   Wu, Dekai ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOPHAGES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

CONDITIONAL MODELS; CONSTRAINED MOVEMENT; IBM MODELS; INVERSION TRANSDUCTION GRAMMARS; JOINT PROCESS; LARGE PARTS; PHRASE TRANSLATIONS; PROCESS YIELD; STOCHASTICS; WORD ALIGNMENT;

ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84883158910     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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