Improving statistical machine translation efficiency by triangulation

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 2875-2880

  Chen, Yu ^a   Eisele, Andreas ^a   Kay, Martin ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; LINGUISTICS; SURVEYING; TRIANGULATION;

DATA SET; MODEL SIZE; PARALLEL CORPORA; PHRASE-BASED STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; SEARCH SPACES; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; TRAINING DATA; TRANSLATION QUALITY;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 84966981430     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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