Name-aware machine translation

ACL 2013 - 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2013, Pages 604-614

  Li, Haibo ^a   Zheng, Jing ^b   Ji, Heng ^a   Li, Qi ^a   Wang, Wen ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

HIGH QUALITY; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; PARALLEL CORPORA; TRANSLATION QUALITY; WORD ALIGNMENT;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84907322132     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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