On the elements of an accurate tree-to-string machine translation system

52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2014 - Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2014, Pages 143-149

  Neubig, Graham ^a   Duh, Kevin ^a  

^a NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; FORESTRY;

HIERARCHICAL PHRASE; MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEMS; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; PERFORMANCE GAPS; STATE-OF-THE-ART METHODS;

HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS;

FORESTRY; LANGUAGES; TRANSLATION;

EID: 84906928070     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/v1/p14-2024     Document Type: Conference Paper

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