Syntactic reordering for english-arabic phrase-based machine translation

Proceedings of the EACL 2009 Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages, SEMITIC@EACL 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 69-77

  Elming, Jakob ^a   Habash, Nizar ^b  

^a Languagelens   (Denmark)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; MACHINE TRANSLATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

AUTOMATIC EVALUATION; LANGUAGE PAIRS; PHRASE-BASED MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; PRE-TRANSLATION; TRANSLATION QUALITY;

SYNTACTICS;

EID: 85016681036     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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