Coarse "split and lump" bilingual language models for richer source information in SMT

Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, AMTA 2014

Volumn 1, Issue , 2014, Pages 28-41

  Stewart, Darlene ^a   Kuhn, Roland ^a   Joanis, Eric ^a   Foster, George ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b GOOGLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; MACHINE TRANSLATION; SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED; BILINGUAL LANGUAGE MODEL; CLUSTERINGS; COARSE MODELS; CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION; DATA SPARSITY; LANGUAGE PAIRS; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; TARGET WORDS; TRANSLATION QUALITY;

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

EID: 84992390875     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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