Investigating the usefulness of generalizedword representations in SMT

COLING 2014 - 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of COLING 2014: Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 421-432

  Durrani, Nadir ^a   Koehn, Philipp ^a   Schmid, Helmut ^b   Fraser, Alexander ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; LINGUISTICS;

AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED; CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION; LANGUAGE PAIRS; MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; OPERATION SEQUENCES; PHRASE-BASED MODELS; SPARSE DATA; WORD-CLUSTERS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84931089394     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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