Exploring different representational units in English-to-Turkish statistical machine translation

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 25-32

  Oflazer, Kemal ^a,b   El Kahlout, Ilknur Durgar ^b  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

^b SABANCI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; MACHINE TRANSLATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

LANGUAGE MODEL; LIMITED TRAINING DATA; MODEL ITERATIONS; NON-TRIVIAL; RE-RANKING; SIMPLE MODELING; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; TRAINING DATA; TURKISHS; WORD ALIGNMENT;

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

EID: 85025599335     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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