Dialectal Arabic to english machine translation: Pivoting through modern standard Arabic

NAACL HLT 2013 - 2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Proceedings of the Main Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 348-358

  Salloum, Wael ^a   Habash, Nizar ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

DIALECTAL ARABICS; MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEMS; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; MODERN STANDARDS; MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING TOOLS; PROCESSING RESOURCES; RULE-BASED APPROACH; STANDARD ARABICS; TRANSFER RULES;

MACHINE TRANSLATION;

EID: 84926137816     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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