Factored soft source syntactic constraints for hierarchical machine translation

EMNLP 2013 - 2013 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 556-566

  Huang, Zhongqiang ^a   Devlin, Jacob ^a   Zbib, Rabih ^a  

^a BBN TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SYNTACTICS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

DATA SPARSITY PROBLEMS; HIERARCHICAL PHRASE; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; MISMATCH MODELING; SYNTACTIC ANNOTATION; TRADITIONAL APPROACHES; TRANSLATION PROCESS; TRANSLATION SYSTEMS;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 84906925589     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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