Modeling letter-to-phoneme conversion as a phrase based statistical machine translation problem with minimum error rate training

NAACL-HLT 2009 - Human Language Technologies: 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Student Research Workshop and Doctoral Consortium

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 90-95

  Rama, Taraka ^a   Singh, Anil Kumar ^a   Kolachina, Sudheer ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (India)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; MACHINE TRANSLATION;

LANGUAGE INDEPENDENTS; MANY TO MANY; MINIMUM ERROR RATE TRAININGS; PHRASE-BASED STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; STATE OF THE ART;

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

EID: 84883177660     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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