A Hybrid Word Alignment Model for Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 94-101

  Pal, Santanu ^a   Naskar, Sudip Kumar ^b   Bandyopadhyay, Sivaji ^a  

^a JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b VISVA BHARATI UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; MACHINE TRANSLATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

ALIGNERS; CHANNEL MODELLING; JOINT SOURCE CHANNEL; NAMED ENTITIES; PHRASE-BASED STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; RULE BASED; SEMI-SUPERVISED; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEM; TARGET LANGUAGE; WORD ALIGNMENT;

ALIGNMENT;

EID: 85020419216     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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