The impact of sentence alignment errors on phrase-based machine translation performance

AMTA 2012 - Proceedings of the 10th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Goutte, Cyril ^a   Carpuat, Marine ^a   Foster, George ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; ERRORS; SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

COLLECTION EFFORT; COMPARABLE CORPORA; HIGH NOISE LEVELS; PARALLEL DATA; PHRASE-BASED MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; SENTENCE ALIGNMENT; SMT SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION;

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

EID: 84940948053     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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