The MIRACL Arabic-English Statistical Machine Translation System for IWSLT 2010

2010 International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, IWSLT 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 119-125

  Khemakhem, Ines Turki ^a   Jamoussi, Salma ^a   Ben Hamadou, Abdelmajid ^a  

^a University of Sfax   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; MACHINE TRANSLATION;

ARABIC-ENGLISH; IMPROVE PERFORMANCE; MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYZER; MORPHOLOGICAL STRUCTURES; PHRASE-BASED STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEM; SYNTACTIC FEATURES;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 85020433188     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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