Integrated phrase segmentation and alignment algorithm for statistical machine translation

NLP-KE 2003 - 2003 International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 567-573

  Zhang, Ying ^a   Vogel, Stephan ^a   Waibel, Alex ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

Phrase alignment; Phrase segmentation; Statistical machine translation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ALIGNMENT; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY;

ALIGNMENT ALGORITHMS; BI-GRAM LANGUAGE MODELS; CONDITIONAL PROBABILITIES; MUTUAL INFORMATIONS; PHRASE SEGMENTATIONS; PHRASE TRANSLATIONS; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; TRANSLATION QUALITY;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 84945115561     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NLPKE.2003.1275970     Document Type: Conference Paper

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