Bridging the inflection morphology gap for Arabic statistical machine translation

HLT-NAACL 2006 - Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics, Short Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 201-204

  Zollmann, Andreas ^a   Venugopal, Ashish ^a   Vogel, Stephan ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; MACHINE TRANSLATION; MORPHOLOGY; SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

CONTEXTUAL RELATIONSHIPS; LEARN+; MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; PARALLEL CORPORA; SOURCE LANGUAGE; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; TARGET LANGUAGE; TRANSLATION QUALITY; WORD LEVEL; WORD SEGMENTATION;

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

EID: 85022172469     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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