The CMU Syntax-Augmented Machine Translation System: SAMT on Hadoop with N-best alignments

2008 International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, IWSLT 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 18-25

  Zollmann, Andreas ^a   Venugopal, Ashish ^a   Vogel, Stephan ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; MACHINE TRANSLATION; MAPREDUCE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; OPEN SYSTEMS; SYNTACTICS;

DATA TRACKS; HADOOP MAPREDUCE; MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEMS; OPEN-SOURCE; PARALLEL PROCESSING ARCHITECTURES; TRANSLATION MODELS; TRANSLATION QUALITY; TRANSLATION SYSTEMS;

PIPELINES;

EID: 84899226469     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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