Preference grammars and soft syntactic constraints for GHKM syntax-based statistical machine translation

Proceedings of SSST 2014 - 8th Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 148-156

  Huck, Matthias ^a   Hoang, Hieu ^a   Koehn, Philipp ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

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

FEATURE-BASED; SOFT SOURCE; SPARSE FEATURES; STATE OF THE ART; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; SYNTACTIC INFORMATION; TARGET LANGUAGE; TRANSLATION RULES;

SYNTACTICS;

EID: 85026948820     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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