A Topic-Triggered Language Model for Statistical Machine Translation

6th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, IJCNLP 2013 - Proceedings of the Main Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 447-454

  Yu, Heng ^a   Su, Jinsong ^a   Lü, Yajuan ^a   Liu, Qun ^a  

^a DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; MACHINE TRANSLATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

% REDUCTIONS; GLOBAL INFORMATIONS; LANGUAGE MODEL; LOCAL CONTEXTS; N-GRAM LANGUAGE MODELS; N-GRAMS; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; TOPIC DISTRIBUTIONS; WORD PERPLEXITY;

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

EID: 85014061850     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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