Simple Syntactic and Morphological Processing Can Help English-Hindi Statistical Machine Translation

IJCNLP 2008 - 3rd International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2008, Pages 513-520

  Ramanathan, Ananthakrishnan ^a   Bhattacharyya, Pushpak ^a   Hegde, Jayprasad ^b   Shah, Ritesh M ^b   Sasikumar, M ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

^b Cdac Mumbai   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

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

BILINGUALS; ENGLISH PARSER; INDIAN LANGUAGES; MORPHOLOGICAL INFORMATION; MORPHOLOGICAL PROCESSING; PARSE TREES; SIMPLE++; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; SYNTACTIC INFORMATION; TRANSFORMATION RULES;

SYNTACTICS;

EID: 85022139575     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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