Enhancing scarce-resource language translation through pivot combinations

IJCNLP 2011 - Proceedings of the 5th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1361-1365

  Costa Jussà, Marta R ^a   Henríquez, Carlos ^b   Banchs, Rafael E ^c  

^a Barcelona Media Innovation Center   (Spain)

^b UPC Barcelona   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

CASCADE SYSTEMS; LANGUAGE PAIRS; LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; PIVOT LANGUAGE; PIVOT STRATEGIES; SCARCE RESOURCES; SPANISH CORPORA; SPOKEN LANGUAGES; UNITED NATIONS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84883328394     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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