Character-based pivot translation for under-resourced languages and domains

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

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 141-151

  Tiedemann, Jörg ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; LINGUISTICS;

CHARACTER LEVEL; DOMAIN ADAPTATION; LANGUAGE PAIRS; LARGE MARGINS; PIVOT LANGUAGE; TRAINING DATA; TRANSLATION MODELS; UNDER-RESOURCED LANGUAGES;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 85009951651     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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