Evaluation of context-dependent phrasal translation lexicons for statistical machine translation

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3520-3527

  Carpuat, Marine ^a   Wu, Dekai ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SPEECH TRANSMISSION; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

AUTOMATIC TRANSLATION; CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION; PHRASAL TRANSLATION; PHRASE-BASED STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; TRANSLATION LEXICONS; TRANSLATION QUALITY; WORD-SENSE DISAMBIGUATION;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 84949838440     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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