Integrating translation memory into phrase-based machine translation during decoding

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2013, Pages 11-21

  Wang, Kun ^a   Zong, Chengqing ^a   Su, Keh Yih ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

^b Behavior Design Corporation   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DECODING;

FUZZY MATCH; INTEGRATED MODELS; MULTI-STAGE; PHRASE-BASED MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; SMT SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; TRANSLATION MEMORY;

SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84907351300     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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