Perplexity minimization for translation model domain adaptation in statistical machine translation

EACL 2012 - 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 539-549

  Sennrich, Rico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; LINGUISTICS;

DOMAIN ADAPTATION; LANGUAGE MODEL; PARALLEL DATA; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; TRANSLATION MODELS;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 84992378330     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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