What Matters Most in Morphologically Segmented SMT Models?

Proceedings of SSST 2015: 9th Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation - NAACL HLT 2015 / SIGMT / SIGLEX Workshop

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 65-73

  Salameh, Mohammad ^a   Cherry, Colin ^b   Kondrak, Grzegorz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; MACHINE TRANSLATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

LANGUAGE MODEL; MORPHOLOGICAL COMPLEXITY; MORPHOLOGICAL SEGMENTATION; PHRASE BOUNDARY; PHRASE-BASED STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; TARGET LANGUAGE; TARGET WORDS; TEST BED; TRANSLATION QUALITY;

MACHINE COMPONENTS;

EID: 84994088834     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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