Automatic category label coarsening for syntax-based machine translation

5th Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation, SSST 2011 at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, ACL HLT 2011 - Proceedings of the Workshop

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 98-106

  Hanneman, Greg ^a   Lavie, Alon ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COARSENING; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MACHINE TRANSLATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; OSTWALD RIPENING;

DECODING PROCESS; FRENCH-ENGLISH; LABEL SETS; LANGUAGE PAIRS; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; PARALLEL TRAINING; S EFFECT; TEST SETS; TRAINING CORPUS; TRAINING DATA;

SYNTACTICS;

EID: 84957860288     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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