Head Finalization: A Simple Reordering Rule for SOV Languages

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 244-251

  Isozaki, Hideki ^a   Sudoh, Katsuhito ^a   Tsukada, Hajime ^a   Duh, Kevin ^a  

^a Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; MACHINE TRANSLATION; SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

HANDCRAFTED RULES; PART-OF-SPEECH TAGGER; PART-OF-SPEECH TAGS; PRE-PROCESSING METHOD; PREPROCESSING APPROACHES; RULE BASED; SIMPLE++; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEM; WORD ORDERS;

SYNTACTICS;

EID: 84957860293     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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