Incremental HMM Alignment for MT System Combination

ACL-IJCNLP 2009 - Joint Conf. of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and 4th Int. Joint Conf. on Natural Language Processing of the AFNLP, Proceedings of the Conf.

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 949-957

  Li, Chi Ho ^a   He, Xiaodong ^b   Liu, Yupeng ^c   Xi, Ning ^d  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^c HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

ALIGNMENT METHODS; CONFUSION NETWORKS; DECODING ALGORITHM; MT EVALUATIONS; N-GRAMS; STATE TRANSITIONS; SYSTEM COMBINATION;

ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84926312761     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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