Multi-Pivot Translation by System Combination

2010 International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, IWSLT 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 299-306

  Leusch, Gregor ^a   Max, Aurélien ^b,c   Crego, Josep Maria ^b   Ney, Hermann ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILINGUAL RESOURCES; CONSENSUS TRANSLATIONS; LANGUAGE PAIRS; MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEMS; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; PIVOT LANGUAGE; SCARCE RESOURCES; SYSTEM COMBINATION; TARGET LANGUAGE; TRANSLATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84883363776     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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