Improving MT word alignment using aligned multi-stage parses

5th Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation, SSST 2011 at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, ACL HLT 2011 - Proceedings of the Workshop

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 88-97

  Meyers, Adam ^a   Kosaka, Michiko ^b   Liao, Shasha ^a   Xue, Nianwen ^c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

F-SCORE; LOGICAL DEPENDENCIES; MULTI-STAGES; WORD ALIGNMENT; WORD ORDERS;

EID: 84907359307     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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