Improving pivot-based statistical machine translation using random walk

EMNLP 2013 - 2013 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 524-534

  Zhu, Xiaoning ^a   He, Zhongjun ^b   Wu, Hua ^b   Wang, Haifeng ^b   Zhu, Conghui ^a   Zhao, Tiejun ^a  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b BAIDU INC   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

BASELINE SYSTEMS; EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT; LANGUAGE PAIRS; MACHINE LEARNING METHODS; RANDOM WALK; SPOKEN LANGUAGES; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; TARGET LANGUAGE;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 84926374048     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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