Adaptation of statistical machine translation model for cross-lingual information retrieval in a service context

EACL 2012 - 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 109-119

  Nikoulina, Vassilina ^a   Kovachev, Bogomil ^b   Lagos, Nikolaos ^a   Monz, Christof ^b  

^a Xerox Research Center Europe   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; LINGUISTICS; SYNTACTICS;

BLEU SCORES; CROSS-LINGUAL INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; DOCUMENT COLLECTION; PARALLEL QUERIES; QUERY TRANSLATIONS; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; TARGET LANGUAGE; TUNING PARAMETER;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 84897739683     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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