Abu-matran at WMT 2014 translation task: Two-step data selection and rbmt-style synthetic rules

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 171-177

  Rubino, Raphael ^a   Toral, Antonio ^b   Śanchez Cartagena, Victor M ^a,c   Ferŕandez Tordera, Jorge ^a   Ortiz Rojas, Sergio ^a   Raḿirez Śanchez, Gema ^a   Śanchez Martinez, Felipe ^c   Way, Andy ^b  

^a University of Elche   (Spain)

^b DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; MACHINE TRANSLATION;

BILINGUALS; CROSS ENTROPY; DATA SELECTION; LANGUAGE MODEL; LANGUAGE PAIRS; MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEMS; SELECTION METHODS; TARGET LANGUAGE; TRANSLATION MODELS; WORD ALIGNMENT;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 85000635039     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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