Decision Trees for Lexical Smoothing in Statistical Machine Translation

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 428-437

  Zbib, Rabih ^b   Matsoukas, Spyros ^a   Schwartz, Richard ^a   Makhoul, John ^a  

^a BBN TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BINARY TREES; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; MACHINE TRANSLATION;

BINARY DECISION TREES; CLUSTERING ATTRIBUTES; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; PART OF SPEECH; STATE OF THE ART; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; TRANSLATION SYSTEMS; TWO WAYS; WORD TRANSLATION; WORDS CLUSTERS;

DECISION TREES;

EID: 84959891185     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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