Translate, predict or generate: Modeling rich morphology in statistical machine translation

Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, EAMT 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 27-34

  El Kholy, Ahmed ^a   Habash, Nizar ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; LINGUISTICS; MODELING LANGUAGES; SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

CONFIGURATION MODEL; MEDIUM SIZE; MORPHOLOGICAL FEATURES; STATE OF THE ART; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; TARGET INFORMATION; TRAINING SETS; TRANSLATION PROCESS;

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

EID: 85000936558     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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