Syntax-driven learning of sub-sentential translation equivalents and translation rules from parsed parallel corpora

Proceedings of SSST 2008 - 2nd Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 87-95

  Lavie, Alon ^a   Parlikar, Alok ^a   Ambati, Vamshi ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES); TREES (MATHEMATICS);

CONTEXT-FREE; ITS APPLICATIONS; MULTISTEPS; PARALLEL CORPORA; PARALLEL DATA; PARSE TREES; PHRASE STRUCTURE; TRANSLATION RULES; TREE DECOMPOSITION; TREE NODES;

SYNTACTICS;

EID: 85025618418     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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