Phrase-based backoff models for machine translation of highly inflected languages

EACL 2006 - 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 41-48

  Yang, Mei ^a   Kirchhoff, Katrin ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKOFF; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; PHRASE-BASED MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; PHRASE-BASED MODELS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

EID: 84893372106     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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