Machine translation of arabic dialects

NAACL HLT 2012 - 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 49-59

  Zbib, Rabih ^a   Malchiodi, Erika ^a   Devlin, Jacob ^a   Stallard, David ^a   Matsoukas, Spyros ^a   Schwartz, Richard ^a   Makhoul, John ^a   Zaidan, Omar F ^b   Callison Burch, Chris ^c  

^a BBN TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

AMAZON'S MECHANICAL TURKS; ARABIC DIALECTS; DATA RESOURCES; DIALECTAL ARABICS; EGYPTIANS; LARGE CORPORA; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; PARALLEL CORPORA; TRANSLATION QUALITY; WEB TEXTS;

MACHINE TRANSLATION;

EID: 84883159872     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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